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24/01/2011 - News from the network ALPARC A new workshop on the topic of indicators in Switzerland!
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The Swiss network of parks and ALPARC (Alpine Network of Protected Areas) are organizing a workshop workshop from 16th till 18th of March 2011 in Marbach/Escholzmatt (Switzerland) on the subject of: "Indicators of management effectiveness“ |
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10/01/2011 - News from the protected areas Tourism and Disability: Label awarded to the Ecrins National Park House
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The Ecrins National Park/F has just been awarded the ‘Tourism and Disability’ label. Motor, sight, hearing or mental disabilities have all been taken into account in the design of the new visitors’ facilities of this Park House in the Valgaudemar valley. |
07/01/2011 - News from the protected areas Twelve Swiss parks in the pipeline
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On 7 January 2011, eight candidate nature parks submitted formal applications to be recognised as parks of national importance. The Ticino region has also entered a second proposal for a national park, the Locarno Park. |
14/12/2010 - News from the Alps Why take the car all the time?
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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? |
13/12/2010 - News from the protected areas "Change is the only constant"
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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. |