The Swiss Forum on Conservation Biology SWIFCOB is a yearly conference. It aims at improving the dialogue of scientists with biodiversity conservation practitioners. Each conference focuses on one topic. Talks are held in German, French or English.

SWIFCOB 15 will take place on January 16, 2015 in Bern.

The 20th edition of the Danilo Re Memorial will take place from Thursday 22nd to Sunday 25th January 2015 in St. Jakob in Defereggental, in the Hohe Tauern National Park, Tyrol, Austria, as officially announced by Ingrid Felipe, the Vice-President of the Land of Tyrol, on 17 March 2014 in Innsbruck. This will also be the venue for the 2nd General Assembly of the ALPARC association and the first festive event in the context of the 20th anniversary of the Alpine Network of Protected Areas.

As is the custom, during the sports competition the teams from the Protected Areas will compete in the following 4 disciplines:

These meetings will also be an opportunity to exchange views during a seminar around a theme linked to the work of the park rangers, and will, as always, give rise to useful meetings and convivial exchanges between the participants from the 6 Alpine countries!

To enable you to have greater live access to this event, be informed about the rules, inscriptions and programme, we have revamped the Internet site with a new design and new features. All useful information will shortly be available at this link: http://www.alparc.org/danilore/

As a complement to the Internet page, the Hohe Tauern National Park has also opened a Facebook page:

www.facebook.com/MemorialTrofeoDaniloRe

Please don’t hesitate to give your opinion and share the page with your contacts.
We hope that you will be among those taking part next year!

At the international Museum "Micheletti Award" a great success was reached for the new National Park Centre less than a year after its opening: 3rd place for the "Haus der Berge"! Its boss Ulrich Brendel (r.) received the award at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow / Scotland by the chairman of the international jury, Dr. Charles Borromeo Murr (2nd from left).

The first prize went to the Science Museum "MUSE" (Museo delle Scienze) in the Italian town of Trento. The "Micheletti Award" is an award for innovative and contemporary exhibitions and museums in Europe and is awarded annually by an independent commission.

Source: Press release of the National Park Berchtesgaden on 12/05/2014

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The Conference will take place from 13 to 15 October 2014 in the Congress Center "Le Manège".

Various sectors, such as land-use planning or agriculture, must be involved in order to ensure biodiversity in the Alps. In many regions the results of projects and studies are often not known or not directly applicable. How can the framework for a sustainable, efficient European environmental policy be improved? And how can the new EU funding programmes effectively contribute to maintaining biodiversity?

These and other topics will be discussed at the international final conference of the greenAlps project.The topics will be addressed by speakers from different perspectives, from European to local level, and discussed within the framework of workshops and field trips.

At the opening of the conference, the local population is invited to exchange views on the added value of protected areas and taste it in form of local delicacies.We invite you to join the discussion!
Contributions will be translated into German, French, Italian and Slovenian.Participation is free of charge.

The programme and the registration form are available at
http://www.greenalps-project.eu/finalconference.

The deadline for registrations is 30 September 2014.

The greenAlps project is co-funded by the EU in the context of the Alpine Space Programme INTERREG IV B in order to put into effect the results of current and completed projects in the area of biodiversity.
Further informations of the project available here.