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"The Wall": Less barriers, more life!

Date :
21/10/2010
Keywords :
Biodiversity   Communication   Environmental Education and Awareness Raising   ecological network

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.

Against the background of the 10th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biodiversity, being held in Nagoya, Japan in the second half of October, the ‘Ecological Continuum Initiative’ demonstrated with ‘The Wall’ on 20 October how important interlinked habitats are for the survival of many plant and animal species.

Take a look at some media reports from the different countries at this link: www.alpine-ecological-network.org

Source: press release by Cipra International, in the frame of the Ecological Continuum, gathering CIPRA, ALPARC, WWF and ISCAR

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21/10/2010 - Events of ALPARC "The Wall": Less barriers, more life!

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.

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at this link and more
information about this
event here .

Link(s) :
  • Alpine Ecological Network This website is dedicated on the one hand to the "Ecological Continuum Initiative" of the Consortium ALPARC/CIPRA/ISCAR and on the other hand to the platform "Ecological network" of the Alpine Convention. This website offers a list of publications and events on this topic as well as a search engine to find alpine experts in different thematic fields related to ecological networks.
  • CIPRA International
  • ISCAR
  • WWF