That is the opening line of the pocket-sized brochure produced for the new educational trail through the glacier foreland in the Lötschental (Switzerland), but applies equally to the recently opened Wilde John educational walking trail in the Hohe Tauern National Park in Austria.

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.

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.

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...

Each year the EUROPARC Federation, in cooperation with the Alfred Toepfer Foundation (D), awards three Alfred Toepfer Natural Heritage Scholarships, each worth 3000€, to promising young conservationists. The application period for the 2010 scholarships has already begun!

“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?”

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The Ecrins National Park will be hosting the third Rencontres de l'image de montagne festival in Bourg d'Oisans, France, on 17 and 18 September 2010. The festival includes a programme of free public screenings plus a range of workshops looking at nature photography techniques. The event is unique because of its chosen medium: this is no screening of films or slide shows, but instead is dedicated to multimedia presentations...

Phenoclim builds a collective scientific and educational observation network about climate change in the Alps.
In autumn 2004, the Research Center on Alpine Ecosystems (CREA) launched the program "Phenoclim" for schools, NGOs, individuals and protected areas of all the Alps.