The collection of ALPARC postcards is expanding again, with a new “protected area” card: the Swiss National Park, and three new « theme » cards, two to mark cooperation with the Carpathians, the third illustrating the biological wealth of the Alps, in this International Year of Biodiversity.

Stop – no way through! A giant wall blocks the way of pedestrians in Zurich/CH, Vienna/A, Munich/D, Ljubljana/SI, Milan/I and Lyon/F. For animals, it’s the same every day: streets and settlements increasingly fragment their migration routes.

20 managers or representatives of almost 60 protected areas of the various Alpine countries are united around this fine project which will make available to all the protected areas a simple but fascinating tool to present the protected areas to the general public. But what is multivision ?

On the 2nd February 2011, the Launch Ceremony of the International Year of Forests took place in New York. The aim of this initiative taken by the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization is to encourage the awareness of the relevance of the role of forests...

Thursday 21 October was an intense day for the ALPARC network General Assembly! Significantly it had gathered managers of the Alpine protected areas of all alpine countries

Austria’s largest natural park, the alpine park Karwendel in Tyrol, participates to ALPARC postcard collection with its own postcard.

“How renewable are the Alps?”
“What are the renewable resources the Alps can build a future on?”
“How can a sustainable future be built on past experiences and know-how?”