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13/12/2010 - News from the protected areas "Change is the only constant"

 

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.

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03/02/2009 - News from the network ALPARC 15th Danilo Re Trophy in the Swiss National Park

The events of the 15th Danilo Re Trophy will take place in the Engadin, at the heart of the Alps, from 19th to 22nd January 2010.

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06/09/2011 - News from the Alps A dozen Parks with a national label

 

A happy day for the Swiss parks: 8 parks got the label “Parks of national importance” by the Swiss federation.

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11/12/2008 - News from the protected areas Andreas Weissen is the new director of the Network of Swiss Parks

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10/05/2010 - News from the Alps Appel à la protection du Mont-Blanc

Les associations d'alpinisme et de protection de l'environnement d'Italie, de France et de Suisse, ont signé un "Appel pour le Mont-Blanc". Elles demandent une région modèle pour un développement durable selon les principes de la Convention alpine.

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09/02/2010 - News from the Alps Bartgeier Ikarus lebt nicht mehr

Erster freilebender Bartgeier der Innerschweiz gestorben.

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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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31/08/2009 - News from the Alps Expansion of the landscape of Swiss parks

 

The 28th August 2009 was a red-letter day for the Swiss parks network. The Federal Office for the Environment granted 8 out of 9 requests for the creation of parks and acknowledged two new parks as “Park of national importance”. Hence, the landscape of Swiss parks continuously takes on better forms.

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04/04/2011 - News from the protected areas Geoinformation in protected areas

The dissertation of Rudolf Haller "Integrative Geoinformationsmanagement in protected areas research" (Integratives Geoinformationsmanagement in der Schutzgebietsforschung) was published in the series of "National park research in Switzerland" ("Nationalpark-Forschung in der Schweiz", Number 95).

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25/11/2008 - News from the Alps Holiday without car - Travelling relaxed in Swiss mountains

The selected pilot destinations are the Ägerital-Sattel (ZG/SZ), Braunwald (GL), Lenk (BE) and the National Park Region in the Grisons (Graubünden - GR).

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