Das Netzwerk Alpiner Schutzgebiete
Progetto Interreg Italia-Svizzera GREAT - Grandi Erbivori negli Ecosistemi Alpini in Trasformazione
Programma di Cooperazione Transfrontaliera Italia-Svizzera 2007-2013 Unione Europea FESR
under the endorsement of:
Alpine Network of Protected Areas ALPARC
IUCN Caprinae Specialist Group
The Gran Paradiso National Park and the Swiss National Park are pleased to invite you to the 22nd Meeting of the Alpine Ibex European Specialist Group - Gruppo Stambecco Europa (GSE- AIESG) that will be held in Zernez (Swiss National Park) on 26-28 October 2012.
The aim of the meeting is to update the knowledge on the status and distribution of Alpine ibex and to share the results of the latest research on this species. The conference is open to researchers, experts, managers and to everybody interested in this species.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
The scientific programme will include invited lectures, contributed talks and posters. The programme will be divided into a session on the s tatus and distribution of Alpine ibex populations and various thematic sessions on genetics, population ecology, behaviour, physiology, diseases and conservation.
The tentative schedule of the meeting will be as follows:
26 october, afternoon: Opening of the meeting and session: Overview on status and distribution of populations
27 october, morning and afternoon: Thematic sessions.
28 october, morning: Excursion in the Swiss National Park and closing of the meeting.
The session overview on status and distribution of populations will include only invited lectures (one contribution for each nation where the species is present with the aim to present the general situation of that country).
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official languages of the meeting will be Italian, German, French and English. Translation services will be provided.
REGISTRATION AND SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS
The deadline for registration and submission of contributions is 31st August 2012. Registration to the meeting is free but only delegates who registered before the deadline will be allowed to attend. To register to the meeting please fill the online registration form.
Delegates who want to present a contribution are asked to send a brief abstract (max 250 words) including title, authors and affiliations, type of contribution (oral presentation or poster), in english language along with the online registration form. Each speaker will have 15 minutes available for their presentation and 5 minutes for questions. Delegates will receive a confirmation of their registration and submission within two weeks after the deadline.
HOW TO REACH THE MEETING AND ACCOMODATION
Swiss National Park is easily accessible with public transport or by car, instruction on how to reach Zernez are available at http://www.nationalpark.ch/go/en/visit/how-to-get-there/
Zernez offer a wide range of hotels for accommodation, a list of hotels will be provided with the second announcement to all registered delegates.
The Second announcement, with informations on accommodation and the detailed programme, will be sent only to delegates registered before the deadline.
Hoping in a wide participation we look forward to your registration and to welcome you in Zernez!
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Bruno Bassano (Gran Paradiso National Park)
Flurin Filli (Swiss National Park)
Achaz von Hardenberg (Gran Paradiso National Park)
Ruedi Haller (Swiss National Park)
Alice Brambilla (DISTA, University of Pavia, Italy)
Seraina Campbell (Swiss National Park)
CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
Ente Parco Nazionale Gran Paradiso
Servizio sanitario e della ricerca scientifica
Via della Rocca, 47 - 10123 – Torino (Italy)
tel. +39-11-8606211
e mail address for correspondence: gse@pngp.it
Sie dürfen gespannt sein!
Eröffnung mit großem Bürgerfest am 24. Mai ab 14:00 Uhr.
The second Alparc workshop on the topic "Mountain Environmental Education: how to reinforce the relation between young people and Alpine mountain?" will take place from 17th to19th October 2012 in Mallnitz, in the Hohe Tauern National Park .
It is co-organised with the Hohe Tauern National Park - Carinthia and with the REEMA (Alpine Network for Mountain Environmental Education), which already gathers the staff in charge of environmental education in the French Alpine protected areas.
Target public: Staff in charge of environmental education in the Alpine protected areas.
Limited number of participants: 30 persons max.
Language of the meeting: English
Programme proposal: see document below (for download)
Main topic will be: YOUTH and MOUNTAIN: how to reinforce the relation between young people and mountain? Which ideas, tools, international projects
Parallel work sessions in small groups:
- Experiences of sponsoring, cooperations with external partners financing environmental education programs
- Education centres: experience of alpine protected areas with visitor centres (management, staff, costs, infrastructure, content and pedagogical material, impacts, selling products or not?)
- Educational values, alpine culture and mountain identity
The programme will also offer large discussion time for informal experiences exchanges as well as various guided visits.
Contact:
ALPARC Education Working Group Coordination: marie.stoeckel@alparc.org +33 (0)4 79 26 55 00
Please find below the registration form as well as useful practical information. To register, fill in the form and send it back before 30th of SEPTEMBER 2012. Thanks!
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
The ALPARC Workshop “Monitoring biodiversity transformation to document climate change impacts in alpine protected areas” will take place in the Gran Paradiso National Park (Italy) the 10th and 11th of September 2014.
Target public: Staff in charge of biodiversity conservation management and monitoring in the Alpine protected areas.
Language of the meeting: English
Programme: The aim of this workshop is to present and discuss different monitoring protocols to assess changes of biodiversity in alpine ecosystems linked to global warming effects in order to identify possible synergies for a closer cooperation and exchange of information among alpine protected areas.
Among other, the Italian biodiversity monitoring programme used in the Gran Paradiso National Park will be presented and its application demonstrated during a field trip.
REGISTRATION IS OPEN:
Please find below the registration form and practical information for download. Send back your registration form to ALPARC before August, 27th.
Contact: yann.kohler[at]alparc.org +33 (0)4 79 26 55 07
mountain.TRIP, financed within the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union, had its final conference at the 17th of November.
The project goal is to provide accessible and understandable forms of research-based information relevant to sustainable development in mountain regions to stakeholders, end-users and practitioners. mountain.TRIP will start where other EU projects have finished, translating research findings into useful information and developing relationships between users and researchers.
After 2 years trying to close the gap between researchers and practitioners in the context of sustainable mountain development, the project is now finished
and all its information and communication tools are online available at www.mountaintrip.eu .
In Berlin today Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen officially opened the UN Decade on Biodiversity, responding to a call from the UN General Assembly to halt the loss of biological diversity in the decade between 2011 and 2020. Worldwide, countries and private stakeholders have been called upon to commit themselves to nature and the conservation of biological diversity.
The Federal Environment Minister stressed that biodiversity conservation is a worthwhile investment in the future: "Those who use and consume our natural capital instead of conserving it in the long term, act unwisely – ecologically, but also economically. The current financial crisis entails the danger of thinking that nature conservation is not affordable in times of crisis. In fact, the opposite is true: Economically it is better to invest in the conservation of biological diversity and to consider, from the start, the impact of human action on ecosystems and on the services they render. Worldwide a host of examples prove that this is the right approach".
Environment Minister Röttgen invited civil society players to actively shape the UN decade and to contribute with their own activities to the focal topic "enjoy diversity - nature is recreation (Vielfalt genießen - Naturzeit ist Freizeit)”. He launched a competition to find the best decade projects. Applications can be submitted from today. At the same time, well-known decade ambassadors and actively committed young people, so called young ambassadors, will voice their support for biodiversity conservation. Minister Röttgen said: "I am convinced that together we will be able to increase awareness of biological diversity everywhere and to integrate this topic into important political and societal processes".
At national level the Federal Environment Ministry has launched several initiatives and taken responsibility for nature conservation investments. Under the successful promotion programme entitled "representative large-scale nature conservation projects of national importance", 76 projects have been supported so far with more than €400 million. Moreover, an area of 125,000 hectares, owned by the Federation, will be conserved as "national natural heritage". With an annual €15 million the new "Federal Biodiversity Programme" supports concrete projects geared towards implementing the National Strategy on Biological Diversity. Under the "Forest Climate Fund" the Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) and the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV) will also support measures geared towards supporting the adaptation of domestic forests to climate change, measures to prevent greenhouse gas emissions and measures to secure and conserve forests and wood products as carbon sinks. The goal is to achieve the best possible link between climate, environment and biodiversity aspects. As from 2013, €35 million are to be made available for this purpose.
Information to the national strategy of biodiversity and to federal biodiversity programme biodiversity: www.biologischevielfalt.de
Information to UN Decade on Biodiversity, tot eh competition and to the decade ambassadors: www.un-dekade-biologische-vielfalt.de & www.cbd.int/2011-2020
Source: BMU-Pressedienst Nr. 137/11, Berlin, 08. November 2011
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Stop, you cannot pass!
A huge wall blocks the path of the pedestrians at the place Hviezdoslavovo namestie, in the center of Bratislava. After some Alpine towns , also one Carpathian city can see one of its street blocked by a huge obstacle. With the action “the Wall”, the CNPA and ALPARC want to show how important are the ecological connections for animal and plant species in the Carpathian area.
The Wall is blocking the path!
At the occasion of the 3rd Conference of Parties to the Carpathian Convention (COP3), the 13 meters long and 3 meters high wall was raised for two days in front of the hotel Carlton in center of Bratislava (SK). Mr. József Nagy (Slovak Minister of Environment) and Mr. Mircea Verghelet (president of the CNPA) explained during the official opening ceremony the reasons and objectives of this structure.
The following day, the Wall was the center of interest of the pedestrians on one of the most frequented places in Bratislava. Surprised inhabitants of the Slovak capital, scholars and tourists asked for some explanations about the ecological networks.
The highlight of the COP3 was the signature of two protocols of the convention: “Protocol on Sustainable Forest Management to the Carpathian Convention” and “Protocol on Sustainable Tourism to the Carpathian Convention”. Nevertheless, the permanent arrangements for the secretariat of the Carpathian Convention and for the CNPA coordination unit, the most pressing decisions, are, once again, pushed away to the following COPs…
For more informations: www.carpathianparks.org
The Chapter "Evaluating Management Effectiveness of National Parks as a Contribution to Good Governance and Social Learning" is available online at this link (or see below).
Michael Getzner
Center of Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy,
Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
Michael Jungmeier
ECO Institute of Ecology, Klagenfurt, Austria
Bernd Pfleger
Experience Wilderness, Enns, Austria
20/09/2012 - Evaluation-efficiency Evaluating Management Effectiveness of National Parks
Chapter "Evaluating Management Effectiveness of National Parks as a Contribution to Good Governance and Social Learning" written by Michael Getzner, Michael Jungmeier and Bernd Pfleger
With the upcoming snow the seasonal discussions on disturbance of wildlife by winter outdoor activities will raise again. The usual appeals and bidding for an adapted practice of these activities will only be successful if the background and reasons for them are known and understood.
It is for that aim that WILDLIFE SWISS (WILDTIER SCHWEIZ) has developed a board game offering the players the possibility to take the role of wild animals and live the conditions of mountain winter from their point of view.
Press release (D): see below.
Wilderness areas are almost virgin spaces, without any human touch.
To permit a transmission to the future generations of entirely intact natural spaces, we have to conserve them and, as far as possible, to restore areas of savage nature.
In the frame of the partnership “together for biodiversity”, the Austrian office of forests and WWF realized an enquiry of experts at this subject, containing ecological as well as social and politic aspects.
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The Alps possess an especially large and valuable diversity of plants and animals; this can only continue if habitats are preserved and remain connected to one another. Municipalities can contribute to this in many ways: CIPRA has produced a short film for municipal representatives showing how to make use of these opportunities.
The film “For hermits and fire salamanders – How municipalities connect habitats in the Alps” gives examples of how municipalities can contribute to maintaining the natural diversity of the Alps. Representatives from the Isère département in France, the Engadin in Switzerland and South Tyrol explain how they all contribute to connecting habitats. Each emphasises that it is not just nature that profits, but also people.
“I think the film is very relevant and clearly shows Alpine municipalities that taking account of landscapes and biodiversity improves their quality of life and sustainable development. The film successfully gets this core message across”, states Antonio Chiadò, vice-chairman of the “Alliance in the Alps” network of municipalities.
The 15-minute film is available in English, French, German, Italian and Slovenian as a free DVD or internet download. CIPRA will also be showing the film over the coming months to its target audience of municipal representatives at various events, including at the locations where the film was made.
The film forms part of the Ecological Continuum Initiative under which CIPRA, together with ALPARC (Alpine Network of Protected Areas) and ISCAR (International Scientific Committee for Alpine Research), is supporting municipalities and other players in their efforts to improve ecological networks in the Alps.
You can download the press release, photographs in high resoluction, the film or the trailor at the following link:
www.cipra.org/en/press/press-releases