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30/05/2011 - News from the Alps ALPINE CONVENTION SUPPORT PROGRAMME

 

The Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention has launched a support programme for projects that implement the Convention and its Protocols.

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21/05/2011 - News from the Alps AlpWeek produces tangible results

An example of how trans-Alpine meetings can mark the beginning of beautiful new partnerships.

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28/03/2011 - News from the Alps Ecological networks: protected areas rewarded for their exemplary activities

 

On the occasion of a rewarding ceremony organised by the french presidency of the Platform “Ecological network” of the Alpine Vonvention in the frame of the XIth Ministers conference in Brdo (Slovenia) beginning of March 2011, 8 pilot regions have been thanked and congratulated...

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20/03/2011 - News from the Alps 10 years with the golden eagles and a few bearded vultures

 

In August 2010 the publishing company Temi released the book “10 anni con le aquile reali e con qualche gipeto – 10 years with the golden eagles and a few bearded vultures” by Francesco Framarin, ex director of the National Park of Gran Paradiso.

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14/03/2011 - News from the Alps « Changer d'approche » la montagne sans voiture : c'est reparti pour 2011 !

Pour la 5ième année consécutive, Mountain Wilderness convie familles, amis, amateurs passionnés, randonneurs à redécouvrir les espaces montagnards français sans utiliser la voiture.

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08/02/2011 - News from the Alps 50 questions to orient research about ecological connectivity

 

Tracking knowledge on ecological connectivity in the Alps: the 50 most important questions on ecological connectivity in Alps have just been identified

     
     

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07/02/2011 - News from the Alps The new eco.mont issue is out

 

The December 2010 issue of «eco.mont - Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research & Management» was recently completed and has been available since early December, online from the Austrian Academy of Sciences press and in a printed version from «Innsbruck University Press».

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14/12/2010 - News from the Alps Why take the car all the time?

 

We use the car nearly every day: to go to work, to take the children to school, to go shopping, to go hiking, to go on holiday, even to go biking. But is it really necessary? Are there no other options?

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02/12/2010 - News from the Alps International exchange meeting on “ecological connectivity” between the Alps and the Carpathians in Mikulov (CZ)

 

From 20th to 23rd September 2010 an international exchange meeting between experts on ecological connectivity from the Alps and the Carpathians was held in Mikulov (CZ). This meeting was organised in the frame of the Memorandum of Cooperation signed in 2008 between the Convention on biological diversity (CBD), the Alpine and the Carpathian Convention.

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26/11/2010 - News from the Alps Declaration on biodiversity in Switzerland

The aim: to take action and to vigorously promote research over the next decade

   

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