Biodiversity conservation for generations to come

The decisive and desired result of the project is to map a path toward a more efficient and coordinated protected area policy throughout the Alps. The results of the individual chapters are intended to provide technical support for this process and to highlight particular perspectives.

Specifically, the project is intended to contribute to:

a) harmonising the management and measures of the existing protected areas more internationally in the sense of an Alpine-wide protection of biodiversity and

b) to define new forms of protected area where necessary and meaningful. The involvement of the local population in a new protected area policy with horizon 2030 is essential.

Long-term effects are the implementation of an Alpine-wide coordinated protected area policy and an increasingly up-to-date adaptation of protected area management and the types of protected areas as well as their protection status with regard to informed and responsible nature conservation.