The Alpine Network of Protected Areas
Le site d'inscription en ligne est ouvert : http://congres-reserves-naturelles-de-france.fr
Dans le cadre du programme européen ALCOTRA 2007 - 2013 aura lieu le 7 juin prochain le
lieu: Hémicycle du Conseil Général des Alpes-Maritimes, route de Grenoble, Nice, France
Vous trouverez plus d'informations dans le communiqué de presse ci-dessous.
One key to solving the climate problem can be found in the building sector: private households in the Alps are responsible for over one third of final energy consumption.
Significantly reducing CO2 emissions and improving the quality of life must therefore be achieved through energy-efficient restoration with the use of ecological materials. The appropriate rules are also determined by the cities in which some two thirds of the Alpine population live.
The focus of the workshop being held on 19 September 2013 in Gap, France, is on the municipalities as clients for construction projects. How should they build? Where are the greatest challenges? How can a municipality persuade its residents of the need for energy-efficient restoration and building works? Some of the answers are provided by the "Alpine Towns of the Year" of Bozen/Bolzano in Italy and Sonthofen in Germany.
Cette importante manifestation se tiendra du 9 au 12 octobre 2013 à Saint-Martin Vésubie, dans le Mercantour, site volontairement choisi pour profiter du 20e anniversaire de présence avérée du loup en France afin de dresser un état des lieux à la fois rétrospectif et prospectif, dépassant très largement l’échelle locale. L’initiative (et le pilotage) du symposium en reviennent, ce qui est original, à l’Université.
Le titre du colloque : « Vivre ensemble avec le loup. Hier, aujourd’hui… et demain? » est à lui seul un véritable challenge. L’enjeu est de réunir à la fois des acteurs (de tous types, institutionnels et privés) et des chercheurs (historiens de toutes périodes mais aussi géographes, sociologues, ethnologues, biologistes..) dans un colloque ouvert au public et à finalité « sociale ». Il s’agit de dresser un état des lieux comparatif et de proposer des perspectives d’aménagement du statut de l’animal sauvage en France et en Europe, à la lumière des expériences du passé et de l’actuel. (…) »
Jusqu'où doit-on protéger la nature?
Le 194ème Congrès annuel SCNAT aura lieu dans le cadre du Comptoir Suisse du 19 au 28 septembre 2014 lors de l'Expo Beaulieu Lausanne.
Pour plus d'informations veuillez cliquer sur le lien suivant: www.kongress14.scnat.ch/
The next General Assembly of the network ALPAR C will take place on September, 6-7th 2012 in Valposchiavo (CH). This day will be a very special one for the network, because on this occasion, the ALPARC Association will be created.
It is one step that allows ALPARC to structure and close cooperation and legally binding to the Alpine Convention and still to maintain a strong self-reliance as a club. This step is the increasing number of projects and requests of protected areas can be coordinated more effectively. The only currently known solution of such a large "community" as the network it represents a legal status is to announce the founding of an association.
The 8th General Assembly of the Alpine Network of Protected Areas (ALPARC) will take place during the AlpWeek 2012.
The Green Mountain project continues! The 21 of June 2012 the SEE project Green Mountain European dissemination
conference will take place in Bucharest, Romania.
For further information, you can find attached the draft agenda of the event.
From 17th to 19th October 2012 will be held an international conference on “Vegetation Prodrome of Europe”, in IGN headquarters, in Saint Mandé (94), France.
This conference is co-organized by the Société Française de Phytosociologie (French Society for Phytosociology) and the Ministère de l’Écologie, du Développement Durable et de l’Énergie (Ministry for Ecology, Sustainable Development & Energy), in the context of the revision of the Prodrome of the vegetation of France, started in 2006.
These two days will be the occasion to present the status of progress the vegetation prodrome of France and the declination of the classes to the level of associations. The participation of vegetation prodrome of France to build a synsystem of vegetation of Europe will be discussed too. Then the use of the results of the prodrome in the CarHAB program will be discussed.
Participation to this conference is open to all and requires mandatory registration (due to limited space). Online registration is available through www.geoarchi.net/prodrome webpage.
For further information please contact prodrome@geoarchi.net
The international specialist conference in the frame of the INTEREG IV A - project “Harmonization and optimization of the management of NATURA 2000 areas in cross-border nature landscapes of the lower Oder valley” will be held from 27th to 29th November 2012 in Schwedt/Oder, Germany.
We would like to present you the first results of the project and simultaneously turn your attention to European experience in cross-border nature conservation. Get inspired by Best Practice examples throughout Europe and contribute to developing of guidelines giving new impulses to cross-border cooperation in protected areas.
The enclosed conference program informs you about contents and schedule. Registrations are welcome by 31st October 2012 latest. Please feel free to circulate the invitation to other interested colleagues.
We look forward to welcome you end of November in the unique lower Oder valley.
Dirk Treichel
Director of the National Park Lower Oder Valley
The “blue gold” of the Alps is limited in quantity and thus in high demand for use as drinking water, snow or electricity. At its Annual Special Conference in Bozen/Bolzano in October, CIPRA will be asking who has the right to this elixir of life and who has responsibility for it.
The glaciers, springs, streams, rivers and lakes of the Alps provide water to 170 million people. This valuable substance is also indispensable for agriculture, tourism and leisure, nature and the landscape, not to mention energy production. Interest in this scarce resource is enormous: but who gives, who takes and who decides over the water trough provided by the Alps?
It is ten years since CIPRA submitted to the Alpine countries its proposal for a water protocol. Yet today there is no common legal basis for the use and protection of water in the Alps. At its Annual Special Conference/Symposium, to be held at the European Academy in Bozen/Bolzano from 10 to 12 October in the International Year of Water Co-Operation, CIPRA will be giving centre stage to the responsibility for the blue gold of the Alps. How do municipalities co-operate in water management? How will society deal with the causes and consequences of climate change? Who decides in which streambed water or hydropower should flow? What is needed to make politicians and citizens take sustainable action? Narratives will include approaches to the Rhine, the largest river in the Alps, and accounts from Annecy, the city with the cleanest lake in Europe. There will also be field trips organised to demonstrate how South Tyrol deals with its water.
Programme and registration at: www.cipra.org/fr/
Voyage d'étude: inscriptions ouvertes
Construire et rénover durable au Liechtenstein et au Vorarlberg
CIPRA International et CIPRA Slovenija ont le plaisir de vous inviter au voyage d'étude sur la "construction durable" qui aura lieu au Liechtenstein et au Vorarlberg (Autriche) du 7 au 9 Novembre 2013. Construction intelligente, rénovation, efficacité énergétique, impact écologique des matériaux, aménagement du territoire : de nombreuses thématiques seront illustrées lors de visites de bâtiments.
Une occasion de visiter des bâtiments hors du commun et d'échanger avec des architectes, ingénieurs et décideurs locaux, mais aussi avec d'autres participants de tous les pays alpins.
Visites et discussions en allemand, traduction simultanée en slovène, traduction simultanée en français si assez de participants.
The Alps have great potential for the use of renewable energy. This, however, means increasing pressures on nature. How much energy in the Alps is currently generated from wind and hydropower, from biomass and solar sources? How much is theoretically possible, and to what extent is using renewable energies justifiable?
The recharge.green project partners are at present working flat out to find answers to these questions. They will present the first results during the
and discuss with experts and interested parties. Below you will find the conference programme.
France launches the idea of establishing a European network of Alpine Protected Areas.
Organisation of the 1st International Conference of the Alpine Protected Areas in Les Ecrins National Park (FR).
Drafting of the rules for ALPARC's procedural regulations;
Official recognition of ALPARC - The Alpine Network of Protected Areas as a contribution to the application of the Alpine Convention.
Conference of the Protected Areas of the European mountains.
The Steering Committee of the Alpine Convention gives ALPARC the responsibility to carry out a study on ecological networks and transboundary areas.
ALPARC celebrates its 10th anniversary.
ALPARC’s staff becomes attached to the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention under the name 'Task Force Protected Areas'.
Official partnership between CIPRA, ISCAR and WWF on the Ecological Continuum Initiative.
With the goal of creating a genuine ecological network, ALPARC launches a large-scale project on ecological corridors in collaboration with partner organizations.
Contracting parties of the Alpine Convention, the Carpathian Convention and the Biodiversity Convention sign the Memorandum of Cooperation.
ALPARC coordinates the activities of the Alpine Convention’s Platform 'Ecological Network'.
In January, ALPARC acquires the legal status of ‘association’ in France and separates from the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention.
In February, ALPARC and the Alpine Convention sign a Memorandum of Cooperation in order to facilitate cooperation between the two organizations and benefit from potential synergies.
20th anniversary!
ALPARC launches the first edition of the international event ‘Youth at the Top’ to help reconnect Alpine youth with nature and their mountain heritage.
ALPARC starts to work on the working field 'Regional Development and Quality of Life' under the framework of the project InnovAlps and WeWild.
ALPARC leads the 3-year EU Alpine Space project ALPBIONET2030 for Alpine wildlife and habitat management and the YOUrALPS project to give structure to the field of Mountain-oriented Education and incorporate the values and knowledge of mountains more fully into practice.
ALPARC becomes a partner of the 2-year EU Alpine Space project GaYA on implementing youth participation in the Alps.
Launch of the communication campaign 'Be Part of the Mountain' to reduce the impact of winter sport practitioners on Alpine fauna.
On April 11th, the new regional platform of the Alpine Network ‘ALPARC CENTR’ALPS’ is officially founded in Nagelfluhkette Nature Park (Balderschwang, DE) to ensure a regional presence and proximity of the network.
ALPARC celebrates its 25th anniversary in Le Monêtier-les-Bains, Les Ecrins National Park.
Together with 5 partners within the project OpenSpaceAlps and with 10 partners within the HEALPS2 project, ALPARC and the project partners have successfully completed these Alpine Space projects.
The regional platform ALPARC CENTR'ALPS is present with a contact point with its own staff in Immenstadt (DE).
Alpine Space project ‘PlanToConnect’ (project builds on the results of ALPBIONET2030). Objective: Integration of ecological connectivity into spatial planning in the Alpine region.
Launch of two Alpine Space projects: ‘LiveAlpsNature’ (ALPARC LeadPartner). Objective: Visitor guidance measures for Alpine protected areas through innovative offers (OneHealthApproach) and modern digital platforms for outdoor activities. ‘AlpsLife’ (ALPARC, central project partner). Objective: Provision of methods for joint biodiversity monitoring and an Alpine early warning system for species and habitat loss.
30 years of international cooperation of Alpine protected areas within the network ALPARC.