Le Réseau Alpin des Espaces Protégés
ALPARC is pleased to invite you to the closing event of the WeWild project (‘We respect Alpine Wildlife’). The event aims at providing nature protection and mountain sports’ stakeholders with the opportunity to exchange experiences and new ideas on the management of nature and mountain sports in the highly frequented areas of the Alpine region. Starting from the current situation, the objective is to think further and imagine potential courses of action.
During the congress scientists, practitioners, associations, businesses and other stakeholders involved in the ambit will discuss agritourism´s challenges, opportunities and limitations with the aim to leverage and safeguard an effective development of this sector. The combination of international expertise and the existing treasure trove of experiences in agritourism that is available on the hosting territory offers an important added value to this World Congress.
The Mountain Wilderness conference "Find and Encourage Wilderness" will take place on October 30th and 31st 2018. It aims at presenting the main results of the wilderness study in Switzerland, discussing the wilderness strategy and discovering the Sihlwald nature park during a tour.
Registration is possible until September 30th on the website: https://mountainwilderness.ch/wildnis/projekte/wildnis-tagung/
Mountain Wilderness Suisse organise la conférence « Nature sauvage » en collaboration avec CIPRA Suisse, Pro Natura, la Fondation suisse pour la protection et l’aménagement du paysage & Stiftung Wildnispark Zürich (Sihlwald).
En plus de la présentation de l'étude « Nature sauvage », sur le potentiel et l'acceptation de la nature sauvage en Suisse, l’événement comprendra des conférences et des discussions sur le thème, avec une excursion prévue le deuxième jour.
L'invitation s'adresse à tous les amateurs de nature sauvage venant de la protection de la nature, des pouvoirs publics, de la recherche, des aires protégées, des médias, des utilisateurs et des propriétaires d’espaces sauvages existants ou potentiels, ainsi qu'à toute autre personne intéressée.
The National Park Val Grande together with the Ente di Gestione delle Aree Protette dell'Ossola organise a conference focused on the role of the natural parks in mountain areas called :
" I parchi naturali per una nuova etica della montagna" the 20th of October 2018.
Further information available soon at : http://www.parcovalgrande.it/
BILDUNGSTAGUNG »BNE« - Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung für die Zukunft der Alpen
18.10. – 19.10.2018 im Nationalparkzentrum »Haus der Berge« in Berchtesgaden
Anmeldung: Eine Anmeldung per E-Mail ist unbedingt erforderlich. Melden Sie sich bitte mit Namen, Institution / Schule und ggf. gewünschtem Zusatzprogramm bis spätestens 08.10.2018 an unter: bne-fuer-die-alpen@npv-bgd.bayern.de
Demand for nature-based activities is growing in the Alps and their protected natural areas. Especially in the latter it is crucial to guarantee sustainability of these activities that contribute to local economic development in respect of the natural environment. This ALPARC workshop focuses on the development of new tourist products, also in cross-border regions, starting from the spirit and the values of natural parks. How can practitioners ensure the respect of these values in the development of nature-based tourism products and how can these be marketed? Which are lighthouse products and services? The workshop targets protected area managers and staff, tourism professionals, tourism organisations and other stakeholders interested in the topic.
Program
This year the Berchtesgaden National Park celebrates its 40th anniversary. This event presents the main park activities in nature conservation and research.
The 5th international Workshop on “Mountain-oriented Education in Alpine Protected Areas” will take place from 3 to 5 October 2018 in Trenta, Triglav National Park, Slovenia.
Are you an educator in a protected area? Do you coordinate a park’s education activities? Come and get new input on thematical and methodological approaches in outdoor education! This international meeting is the opportunity to share and connect with other colleagues from all over the Alpine territory to enrich your daily work!
Downolad the programme and the logistical information below.
ALPARC organises the workshop in partnership with the Triglav National Park.
Cultural Heritage as an Engine for Creativity, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development of Mountain areas
The Convention will focus on the tangible and intangible cultural heritage in mountain areas and on how this strategic resource, inherited from the past, can be a key asset for developing sustainable and attractive mountain areas in the future. It will enhance the role of European mountain areas, their communities and their cultural heritage in addressing the challenges of the future, disclosing larger perspectives and creating new opportunities.
The International Observation Day (IOD) for bearded vultures have started in 2006 and consist in a one-day simultaneous count of bearded vultures across the whole Alpine arc, organised by the International Bearded Vulture Monitoring network (IBM), which is coordinated by the VCF. Since 2012, bearded vultures are also counted in the Massif Central in France, in Aude in the French Pyrenes and since 2017 the IOD have also expanded to Andalusia, Spain.
This year´s count is on the 6th October 2018.All over the Alps, the Massif Central, the department Aude and Andalusia, people will spend the day in the mountain and keep an eye on the bearded vultures and count them.
This count allows for a thorough monitoring of the bearded vulture population status and distribution in the Alps. Furthermore, the count produces many sightings of identifiable birds, thus generating baseline data for survival analyses and demographic modelling. Besides the valuable information about the dynamics of the reintroduced population, the IODs also play an important role in creating public awareness for the project.
This event has become an important date for ornithologist and bird-watchers, who are fascinated by this large bird species. The number of volunteer observers has been growing every year: last year over 920 participants logged in almost 530 bearded vulture observations.Crossing the observation data with expert knowledge about the presence of territorial and tagged birds, last year the bearded vulture population size in the Alps has been estimated to be between 208 and 251 birds. For the Massif Central 6 birds have been counted, 5 in Aude and between 22 and 33 in Andalusia. Among the observed birds last year 12% were identified as juveniles, 15% as immature, 4% as subadult and 59% as adult birds. Furthermore, it was possible to identify individually 70 bearded vultures, thus providing us valuable information on their life history.
If you are interested in participating in the International Observation Day, please contact the regional coordinators below or the International Bearded Vulture Monitoring network (IBM) for any other question:
Austria - ferdinand.lainer@salzburg.gv.at
France – Haute-Savoie: etienne.marle@asters.asso.fr
France - Mercantour: monique.perfus@mercantour-parcnational.fr
France – Vanoise: jerome.cavailhes@vanoise-parcnational.fr
France - Écrins: christian.couloumy@gmail.com
France - Grands Causses: lea.giraud@lpo.fr
France - Vercors: benoit.betton@pnr-vercors.fr
France - Les Baronnies: gypaete@vautoursenbaronnies.com
France – Aude: yves.roullaud.aude@lpo.fr
Italy - Stelvio: enrico.bassi76@gmail.com
Italy - Aosta: c.chioso@regione.vda.it
Italy - Alpi Marittime: fabiano.sartirana@parcoalpimarittime.it
Spain – Andalusia: prodriguez@gypaetus.org
Switzerland: franziska.loercher@swild.ch
The IBM is partially funded by their partners, and by funding contributions from the EU LIFE Fund through the LIFE GypConnect and LIFE GypHelp, as well as the MAVA foundation.
The summer tourist season is almost over, and it has again brought many people from Europe and elsewhere to the Alps and their protected areas. Their nature experience has without doubt not been the same for everyone: some might have experienced overcrowded places and traffic, whereas others have found energizing calm and wilderness. The management of tourism and visitor flows, but also the development of more sustainable ways of tourism in the Alps, is at the heart of many of the activities of protected area managements today. Their aim is to find a balance between tourism activity (also for sustaining the regional economy) and nature protection, definitely not an easy task as it is also a question of regional governance.
Since the beginning of the year, in the frame of the Destination Parks project, ALPARC has been working on a joint position of parks and protected areas with regard to tourism - a common vision of a concrete and communicable “protected area tourism” for the Alps. After a review of existing work and material on nature-based and protected area tourism, ALPARC is now organizing a set of local events that should help enhance and clarify the vision and future objectives of ALPARC on this topic. A first workshop will take place on October 8th and 9th in the Queyras Regional Nature Park (France). Before the end of the year, ALPARC will organize further events in Austria (November) and Switzerland (December) as well as a panel of experts who will help to develop the vision from a broader viewpoint.
ALPARC is carrying out the Destination Parks project with the support of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (CH).
