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Réservez dès maintenant vos dates du 8 au 10 octobre 2014 pour le Congrès des Parcs dans le Parc de la Forêt d'Orient (10) qui portera sur le thème
pour plus d'informations: http://www.parcs-naturels-regionaux.fr
The Vanoise National Park (F) in collaboration with the city of Pralognan-la-Vanoise and ALPARC organises from Thursday 17th to Sunday 20th of January 2013 the 18th edition of the Danilo Re Memorial, dedicated to a ranger of Cuneo region who died during the exercise of its functions in 1995. The " Danilo Re Memorial" represents an important opportunity for all staff of alpine protected areas to meet.
More information at: http://www.danilo-re.net
According to the decision of the 8th General Assembly of ALPARC in September 2012 in Poschiavo (CH), all alpine protected area managers are kindly invited to prepare their membership by initiating the necessary procedures in their respective institutions (presidents, councils, ministries,…) to be able to officially join the ALPARC association at next January 18th
This step is a very important one for ALPARC and its future. We need to give an official status to the Network in order to continue our common work for the Alps.
Please find enclosed the agenda of the Meeting.
The Nature Park Adamello Brenta (I), in collaboration with ALPARC, will organise from Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th January 2014 the 19th Memorial dedicated to Danilo Re,a ranger of the region of Cuneo (I) who died in the exercice of his function in the year 1995.
Since several years, the « Danilo Re Memorial » is an important occasion of meeting for the staffs of the alpine protected areas.
For more information: http://www.danilo-re.net
Find below the program 2014
Attention, new date!
The 2nd General Assembly of the ALPARC association will take place in the Nature park Adamello Brenta (TN) / I
on 10th of January 2014 from 8:30 to 13:00
during the 19th Danilo Re Memorial .
The third ALPARC workshop on the topic "Mountain Environmental Education in Alpine protected areas" will take place on 21st and 22nd of October 2014 in the new visitor centre "Haus der Berge" of the Berchtesgaden National Park .
It is co-organised with the Berchtesgaden National Park (Bavaria, Germany) and with the REEMA (Alpine Network for Mountain Environmental Education), which 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: this working group meeting will be focused on ongoing activities and projects.The programme will also offer large discussion time for informal experiences exchanges as well as a general session focused on current topics and interests regarding education to nature in the parks and reserves. Guided visits are also planned in option on 20th and 23rd of October. You can download the programme proposal below. The expectations and proposals of the participants are still welcome and will be considered while defining the final detailed programme, which will be published until end of September.
ABOUT REGISTRATION:
Official deadline for registration and hotel booking was on September the 10th, but there are still a few places left for participants from Alpine protected areas: please find below the registration form and practical information for download.
Contact:
ALPARC Education Working Group Coordination: marie.stoeckel (at) alparc.org +33 (0)4 79 26 55 00
In preparation for the IUCN World Conservation Congress , which will be held this year in September in South Korea, ALPARC’s president and Berchtesgaden National Park’s director Michael Vogel was invited in late April to a work meeting by the Korean Society of Environment and Ecology, the South Korean Ministry of Environment, the Korea National Park Service and the University of Seoul.
Michael Vogel, as a specialist of the German Alpine National Park and the Alpine Network of Protected Areas gave already two years ago a lecture in Korea about the Alpine Space project ECONNECT and presented this year in addition to his experience and results on the topics of national park management, ecological network in the Alpine region, the importance of protected areas in regional development as well the core results and resulting demands of ECONNECT.
Next to Korean national park managers, he established a contact to representatives of Japanese and Chinese reserves, which are highly interested and very keen to work with the Alpine Network of Protected Areas and the Carpathian Network of Protected Areas in the perspective of the creation of an Asian network of protected areas.
Michael Vogel, who was praised as an expert for eating with chopsticks, thinks: "It seems to be only a matter of time before ALPARC will get an Asian "brother" and the first joint meeting between ALPARC, the Carpathian Network and an Asian network."
The periodical was created by common accord between ALPARC , ISCAR (International scientific committee on research in the Alps), the Austrian Academy of Sciences ÖAW and the University of Innsbruck. The ISCAR-P work group covering research in protected spaces constitutes the editorial committee of eco.mont.
Issue 4/2, to be published in December 2012, will include articles on changes in vegetation around the Alpine lakes of Styria, results of research into the districts within Nepalese national parks and displacements in Ethiopia. A portrait of the biosphere of the Swabian Jura will also appear in the summary.
We also invite you to submit your contributions for the next issue (5/1) before December 2012. The main themes discussed by the magazine are: the administration of protected areas and governance, monitoring and climate change, sustainable and ecological regional development, research into the flora and fauna of the protected mountain areas.
eco.mont publishes new scientific articles submitted to a peer review process, reports on administrative matters and other subjects of interest for the protected areas, and in each issue focuses on a protected area as a case in point. The periodical is published in English to reach as wide a public as possible.
Around 140 representatives of Protected Areas and other stakeholders acting in the Carpathian Region met at the 2nd Conference of the Carpathian Network of Protected Areas to exchange experience and ideas for future cooperation. The conference titled "Financing protected areas – about ecosystem services, financing mechanisms and green economy" was held in Javorina, Tatra National Park, Slovakia between 23-26 April 2013.
During the Conference several distinguished keynote speakers discussed a variety of perspectives on approaches and issues regarding to the network of protected areas, such as their governance, the science behind conservation and the role of Non-Governmental Organizations.
Amongst others, speakers included representatives from the European Commission, the DG Environment and the Indigenous Peoples' and Community Conserved Areas and Territories (ICCA ).
The program also included a presentation of the BioREGIO Carpathians project, which aims to enhance the integrated management of protected areas and natural assets of the Carpathian Mountains. Sustainable regional development and ecological connectivity were promoted as tools to overcome legal and ecological barriers while considering transboundary and transnational needs.
ALPARC was actively involved in the organization of this important event for the Protected areas of the Carpathians, not only in the preparation of the meeting but also with a key note speech and the organizations of two Workshops : one on project development (together with the Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention) and one on the topic of ecological connectivity (together with EURAC).
Link to the conference homepage : http://www.carpathianparks.org/conference2013/
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.
“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)