Le Réseau Alpin des Espaces Protégés
Espace transfrontalier Marittime - Mercantour : Les Alpes de la Mer
Forts de la création du GECT « Parco europeo/Parc européen Alpi Marittime Mercantour », le Parco Alpi Marittime et le Parc national du Mercantour souhaitent hisser le territoire vers la plus haute distinction mondiale.
Avec les parcs de Marguareis, delle Alpi Liguri, la Province d'Imperia et l'Area protetta regionale "Giardini Botanici Hanbury", ils sont candidats à l'inscription au patrimoine mondial de l'Unesco.
Une étape importante vient d'être franchie en avril 2013 avec l'inscription du site sur les listes indicatives par les Etats français et italien.
Lundi 18 novembre 2013 sera la journée de lancement public de cette candidature.
Pour réussir, une candidature doit être portée par tous les acteurs du territoire, aussi nous comptons sur vous pour la soutenir et vous invitons à réserver cette date pour découvrir le dossier et ses porteurs.
Veuillez trouver ci-joint le programme provisoire; le programme définitif et la fiche d'inscription seront disponibles mi octobre.
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.
EUROPARC Annual Conference 2013 will be hosted by the Hortobágy National Park and will take place in Debrecen, Hungary and the Hortobágy National Park from October 9 - 13, 2013.
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/
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. (…) »
The Park of Triglav is the only Slovenian national park. Spread over 84,000 hectares, it covers almost the entire territory of the Slovenian Julian Alps.
Thanks to a project Leader, co-financed by the European Union, the park Triglav has decided to launch a project similar to the "Quality Charter" of the National Park Dolomiti Bellunesi, to build a network of farmers and tourism actors bearing the mark of the park.
Source of Information: http://www.dolomitipark.it/it/dettaglio.php?id=23731 30/09/2013
The mayor of Liptovsky Mikulas (Slovak republic) reveals why he involved his town and his country in the organisation of the 2nd Nature & Sports Euro'Meet 2013. He also tells us how the Liptov region, in the heart of Europe, is wonderful for outdoor sports...
Call for experiences
The cornerstone of the Nature & Sports Euro’Meet are the theme seminars. After a proposition from the organisator, the European steering committee had chosen 4 themes seminars to build this edition :
We are launching the call for experiences and propose you to share your project, innovating policies, or exemplary actions relating to tourism and outdoor sports and invite you to present them during the 2nd Nature & Sports Euro'Meet in Liptovsky Mikulas (Slovakia, October 2013).
For further information on the 2nd Nature & Sports Euro'Meet 2013: www.nature-sports.eu
se tiendra les 2, 3 et 4 octobre 2013 dans le Parc de la Haute Vallée de Chevreuse dans le département des Yvelines.
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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.
The GreenAlps project has been recently approved in the frame of the 5th call of the ETC Alpine Space Programme. The main aim of the project is to capitalize on the results of previous projects in order to draft a long term, sustainable and integrated environmental policy vision for the Alps. GreenAlps will go beyond classical policy recommendations by giving concrete perspectives for several key sectors, in order to explain how ecological connectivity and sustainable use of natural resources are the basis for the provision of Ecosystem services.
The Lead Partner (LP), the Alpine Network of Protected Areas, launches a tender for management support for all tasks of the overall transnational project administration, co-ordination and financial management. Find the procurements, the terms of reference and all other relevant documents below. Participation is open to all legal persons who are established in a Member State of the European Union or in a country or territory of the regions covered and/or authorised by the specific instruments applicable to the programme under which the contract is financed. Deadline for tender submissions is the 28. 10. 2013.
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Dear colleagues, dear friends in the Alpine protected areas, |
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On 18th January 2013, the „ALPARC“ association was founded with more than 30 founding members from all categories of protected areas and regional institutions. I am very pleased, and also a bit proud, about this strong interest in the now formalised structure of the Network of Alpine Protected Areas, which has already existed as an informal trans-Alpine network since 1995 also promoting the cooperation between our parks and protected areas. And it has done so across all language boundaries! |
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This has given us an own legal entity from this year onwards allowing us to act independently as a network and to represent the protected areas more strongly in the international arena. After many discussions about the statutes of the network, we can in particular progress more vigorously the international cooperation between protected areas and our partners with certainly new, interesting and pioneering projects for the Alps. |
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From the 1st January 2014, our Task Force Protected Area team, which currently still belongs to the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention, will also be grouped under the ALPARC association and then be available as the branch office of the association as the direct contact. Up until the end of 2013 there are a number of formalities to be completed with the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention, which we will do in a very constructive way. |
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The foundation for further close cooperation with the Alpine Convention has already been laid through the drafting and signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation and will now be defined in detail and implemented together with the new Secretary General of the Alpine Convention, Markus Reiterer. After all, the ALPARC network was created from its inception – on French initiative – as a contribution to implement the Alpine Convention. |
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I therefore look forward with great pleasure to a strong and constructive cooperation with the Alpine Convention, which should develop more concretely in the coming months and years giving our protected areas a more prominent place within the Convention in accordance with our slogan “Together for the Alps”. |
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I would like to take the initiative again at this point to ask all protected areas of the Alps that are not yet members of ALPARC to register with the association, in order to further increase the weight of the protected areas in the joint responsibility for the biodiversity and sustainable development of this unique area of the Alps. |
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Dr. Michael VOGEL, ALPARC President |
ALPARC obtained together with international partners a new Alpine Space Project valorizing former project results within regional and European policies.
GreenAlps shapes the framework for a sustainable and efficient European nature and biodiversity conservation policy for the Alps. It relies on two key projects covering essential issues how to best conserve alpine biodiversity by integrating the concept of an ecological continuum in European and regional policies (ECONNECT ) and how to avoid negative impacts of renewable energy production on nature (recharge.green ).
The further integration of results from these projects and other topic related projects in policy strategies is based on the valuation of ecosystem services and on a reliable definition of the carrying capacity of Alpine natural habitats. An intact alpine biodiversity is calling for long-term orientated land use planning, new ways of cooperation and a precautionary approach of other key sectors. The successful governance model of pilot areas working beyond protected sites will help to verify the practicability of the proposed strategies and their possible implementation in European policies.
Partners of this project are : ALPARC (The Alpine Network of Protected Areas, Lead Partner) (F); CIPRA International (FL); EURAC (European Academy of Bolzano) (I); FIWI (Wildlife Institute of Vienna) (A); Berchtesgaden National Park (D); Kalkalpen National Park (A); Prealpi Giulie Nature Park (I); Triglavski Narodni Park (SI).