Le Réseau Alpin des Espaces Protégés
He replaces Marco ONIDA who had held the post since 2007.
45 years of age, a lawyer, diplomat and fine connoisseur of the Alps, Markus Reiterer is the first Austrian to take this position.
Brief overview of his professional career:
After his studies of law, he worked at the Institute of International Law and International Relationships of the University of Vienna. He joined the Austrian Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he became the Head of Environmental Law in 2002.
In 2005 he took the position of Deputy Permanent Representative of Austria to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. At the end of 2008, he was entrusted with heading up the political department of the Austrian embassy in Washington. From December 2011, he worked at the cabinet of the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO).
"It is important to me to contribute on the comprehension and valorisation of nature and culture, life and economy in the Alps and to the sustainable development of the Alps," Reiterer says. The designated Secretary-General wants to enhance "team - building", cooperation and solidarity between the Permanent Secretariat, the Alpine states and the observer organisations. (cf Alpmedia ).
Nous lui souhaitons du succès pour ce nouveau challenge !
The workshop " Regional Development and Quality of Life” took place last 15 and 16 July 2013 in the brand new house of the mountains in Berchtesgaden.
During a day and a half, participants had the opportunity to exchange all together on the content of a future project concerning regional development in alpine rural areas (and in protected areas too), taking into account concepts like "sobriety", "degrowth" and "post-fossil society".
This workshop, co-organized by CIPRA and ALPARC prepares the 2014’s work of the Alpine Network of Protected Areas on this thematic priority
ALPARC has shown a number of possibilities how municipalities can pro-actively participate in the implementation of ecological networks in a brochure published in parallel to the movie “For hermits and fire salamanders – How municipalities connect habitats in the Alps” within the Ecological Continuum initiative.
The 16-page brochure "Step by Step to ecological connectivity " gives an overview of different activities for municipalities in the Alpine region illustrating how they can improve the ecological connectivity on their municipal ground through simple concrete actions.
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The focus lies on individual areas, such as municipal spatial and land use planning, management of green areas or municipal lighting, as well as on individual stakeholder groups (agriculture, hunters, citizens …). The brochure offers a number of arguments to councillors and staff explaining the significance of these actions in simple terms, not only for the environment but also for the quality of life of all members of the community. The actions presented in the brochure have been selected from the collection of the catalogue of measures, and were partly tested in the pilot regions of the ECONNECT project. |
The brochure is available in 4 languages (German, French, Italian, English).
Link to the movie: http://www.alpine-ecological-network.org/information-services/film-for-municipalities/film-for-municipalities?set_language=en
Link to download the brochure: http://www.alpine-ecological-network.org/information-services/publications/5172?set_language=en
With the project "Walking through the clouds" the National Park Gran Paradiso promotes soft mobility through the regulation of motorized traffic on the road to the Nivolet in the summer and encourages walking, cycling and shuttle use.
On the weekends from 7 July to 25 August 2013, the road from the village SERRU to the pass is closed for private car transport. An opportunity to bike, walk or take the shuttle bus to explore a part of this paradise.
The Nivolet is a wonderful plateau of bogs and wetlands at 2,500 meters above sea level, drawn by the meanders of the Dora. It is the habitat of the ibex, chamois, marmots, ermines, foxes, migratory and resident birds and rare plant species.
As a popular destination for cyclists and hikers to enjoy the Nivolet, it changed - especially in the summer Sundays - more and more into a huge car park at high altitude. In the aim to create an alternative to this alienation, incompatible with the objectives of a national park, this project, which also includes the revitalization of the entire area with high-quality tourist services, was launched in 2003.
Turn off the engine and listen to the mountains - The program 2013
“L’acqua è la vera ricchezza di una terra …. e se si riesce a controllare l’acqua si controlla la terra che da essa dipende”.
Wallace Stegner - “Beyond the Hundredth Meridian”
La seconda edizione della
avrà luego nel Parco dell'Adamello da 27 al 30 giugno 2013.
Troverete il programma è piu informazione in questo link
“Nature parks strengthen rural territories: such is the paradigm widely heard with regard to nature parks and regional development. The present report “Nature Parks and Regional Sustainable Development” seeks to identify further the factors which enable nature parks to contribute to regional development while equally taking into account aspects of society, the protection of nature and the landscapes.
Thus 32 experts from different countries (Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Hungary and Switzerland) have looked into these questions. Thanks to a scientific analysis it is possible to define the effects of nature parks on local economies and identify the results obtained by the implementation of different actions.
26 projects stemming from nature parks in Austria and other countries present examples of successful regional development in nature parks. The themes under scrutiny range from the enhancement of landscapes through local produce, sustainable mobility and visitor management to environmental education and other innovative concepts and projects.
Source: Federation of Austrian Nature Parks (VNÖ)
Link to download the report (in German)
We have already talked about it last autumn ; the film “Bearded vulture and men” makes its way. It won the first price at the “Festival de l’insolite Vendée Nature 2013” in the wildlife documentary film category.
It’s the fifth reward for this film since the beginning after Albert in Somme (Fr), Rabat (Maroc),Ya’an (China) and Matsalu (Finland). The film is still currently broadcasted on Montagne TV in France and in many other countries (Canada, Austria, Korea…). Numerous projections are still organized for the public through Tourist offices, regional and national parks and film festivals. The next ones will be “Silences du Ventoux” 17th July and Natural history museum of Geneva in autumn.
Since 28th May 2013, the Alps have had a new trans-border biosphere reserve: the Italian and French territories situated on each side of Mont Viso now constitute two biosphere reserves totalling 294,000 hectares and including 4 sites already listed as Unesco World Heritage Sites.
About twenty communes are concerned on the French side and 88 on the Italian side.
This classification is thanks to the collaboration between the Pô Cuneese and Queyras regional parks, which made a joint application to obtain the international UNESCO “Man and Biosphere” recognition on a national and trans-border level.
The National Park Mercantour , the Nature Park Alpi Marittime and the River Park Gesso e Stura created together the
within the framework of the Integrated Trans-border Plan (PIT) financed by the ALCOTRA European programme of trans-border coordination. The aim of this platform is to allow effective trans-border coordination between all the players of the trans-border territory. Its vocation is to facilitate working in this network and make available a larger number of tools and teaching resources.
As the high point, there is a space essentially devoted to teachers. To access this platform, simply go to the following site: www.edu.marittimemercantour.eu
For more information contact Elena Maselli (In charge of teaching/EEDD of the Mercantour National Park)
The International Symposium for Research in Protected Areas is intended to make research in protected areas, their problems, solutions, results and their importance to society visible and known. This event aims to provide both the scientists and the staff of conservation organizations the opportunity to exchange valuable information, new ideas as well as common interests and to discuss a variety of current research and management issues in protected areas.
Further information, you can find in the pdf below
and also at: www.hohetauern.at/symposium2013
It unites the Mercantour National Park (F) and the Alpi Marittime National Park (I) by means of the European Grouping for Territorial Cooperation (EGTC).
This park is the end product of 30 years of trans-border collaboration, 26 years of twinning, several simultaneous European programmes and a project of common listing in the UNESCO World Heritage encouraged by its recent inscription on the indicative lists of the two countries.
Some key figures from Mercantour – Alpi Marittime:
• 1, 000, 000 visitors per year in the two parks
• The inventory of its biodiversity has made it possible to increase the number of species recorded from 3,500 to more than 8,000 since 2006
• 40, 000 cave drawings from the Bronze Age in the Vallée des Merveilles
• 25, 000 inhabitants
• 2, 425 km² surface area
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.