Mreža zavarovanih območij v Alpah
The Multivision « For the Alps » is now available in Standard DVD and Blu-ray format.
Since its creation, the Multivision "For the Alps" is at free disposal for all the alpine protected areas, to be shown in their visitor centers or during local events (high definition data available for download on the website after registration).Now, it is available in an easy-to-use format.
A copy has been sent for free to all the alpine protected areas managers. If you haven’t received it , please contact us.
This shared communication tool is yours and you are welcome to use it during yours events and animation activities.
Don’t hesitate to plan projections in your area!
A collective, unique and original audiovisual experience
That collective, unique and original audiovisual experience is a joint project of ALPARC and 20 part-ners, managers of more than sixty Alpine protected areas, in 6 Alpine countries (Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland). The multivision production has been created by Alex Gordon Rowbotham and set to original music by Sandro di Stefano.
The multivision pays visual tribute to the diversity and the beauty found in the Alps.
Happy viewing on exploring the Alps!
For any question, please contact: info@alparc.org
"Cette journée passée à Grenoble a été vraiment motivante pour moi. Je ne me rendais pas compte que des structures existaient pour nous donner la parole au niveau alpin. Mais surtout, rencontrer d'autres jeunes avec les mêmes préoccupations et avec la volonté de faire bouger la situation m'a vraiment donné envie de me plonger à fond dans ce projet. J'espère que notre travail donnera à d'autres jeunes la motivation pour s'investir et même mettre en application leurs propres idées ! "
Rémy, jeune participant
Le projet Youth Alpine Dialogue est un projet en réseau qui participe au processus de définition de l’avenir des Alpes. Le projet est coordonné par CIPRA International, et en France, il est relayé par CIPRA France, le REEMA et ALPARC. Il doit permettre aux jeunes de participer à la politique au niveau international et local, de s'engager activement sur les questions de développement durable et de présenter leurs propres réflexions au sein d’organismes internationaux. A moyen terme, le projet fournira les bases d’un réseau pour la participation des jeunes et pour l’éducation à la montagne dans l’arc alpin.
Environ 30 jeunes issus de 6 pays alpins (Autriche, France, Italie, Liechtenstein, Slovénie, Suisse) participent actuellement à ce projet, qui a pour but princiapl de fournir un cadre pour une participation à long terme de la jeunesse à la vie des Alpes.
Vendredi 30 mai 2014, venus de toutes les Alpes françaises, les jeunes (4 jeunes de 15 à 19 ans et 2 jeunes adultes encadrants, de 20 à 30 ans) se sont retrouvés à Grenoble pour leur première rencontre. L'occasion de faire connaissance et de s'approprier le premier thème choisi au niveau international "La mobilité dans les Alpes".
Pour illustrer le sujet, Frédi Meignan, président de Mountain Wilderness, est venu présenter l'opération Mobilité douce. Il a aussi discuté avec les jeunes de la mobilisation citoyenne des acteurs de la montagne aujourd'hui. Les deux jeunes « coachs », qui revenaient tout juste d'une formation internationale au Liechtenstein, ont ensuite animé le groupe afin de choisir une problématique commune pour les Alpes françaises. Ce sera "La mobilité locale en montagne : l'accès aux biens et services des habitants d'une vallée ou d'un massif". La motivation des jeunes présents, leur participation active à l'animation et aux discussions et la qualité des échanges sont des signes très encourageants pour la suite du projet !
Les prochaines actions ? Des interviews par les jeunes 15-19 ans (personnalité politique, représentant de la société civile, autres jeunes, etc.), la production de courtes vidéos et des propositions concrètes pour développer la mobilité locale en montagne. Rendez-vous cet automne pour découvrir les productions des jeunes!
Terza edizione “Fiera della Sostenibilità nella Natura Alpina” à Valle Camonica - Giugno 2014
Today, on 22nd May we celebrate the International Day for Biological Diversity. Read our statement on this important occasion:
Biodiversity – Alpine Convention – Protected Areas – Alps
Linking nature – Biodiversity needs connectivity
In order to preserve its extraordinary biodiversity the Alps need, even more than other regions, ecological connectivity because of their specific topography and high degree of fragmentation in the main alpine valleys.
Protected areas play a key role in protecting alpine biodiversity and ecological processes, less so if they are isolated between intensively used spaces. Often they do have “de facto” an important role of consultation or mediation for their periphery area.
Giving more weight to this role and to promote the exchange between local stakeholders and experts of the protected areas can only be beneficiary for both: good local governance of ecological processes and for biodiversity itself.
We recognize the important role of the protected areas within the process of the establishment of ecological continuums in the Alps by linking the protected areas through adequate measures and by a stronger involvement of local populations.
Markus Reiterer, Secretary General of the Alpine Convention;
Univ. Prof. Dr. med. Vet. Chris Walzer (Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, Vienna), lead partner of EU Alpine Space projects about ecological connectivity;
Guido Plassmann (Director ALPARC, Network of alpine protected areas), coordinating the international cooperation between alpine protected areas
Dear Partners and friends of ALPARC,
Next year ALPARC will commemorate its 20th years. In the beginning of 2015, the ALPARC General Assembly and the Memorial Danilo Re, organised in the Hohe Tauern National Park will be the first occasion of this anniversary year to meet between protected areas managers. I would like to ask you already today to reserve the dates:
Memorial Danilo Re: 22 – 25/01/2015 - General Assembly ALPARC: 23/01/2015
New communication tools for the next years are going to be developed and the very first will be a new homepage which will be operational from the 1st of June 2014.
Public communication and events for the staff of protected areas will be organised all the long of the year 2015 aiming as well to strengthen the cooperation of protected areas with the Alpine Convention.
We will inform you about all these activities which will be prepared during the next months together with the partners of ALPARC. I wish you a very successful summer season for your protected areas and hope to see you soon in the one or the other of the upcoming events of ALPARC.
Best regards,
Martin Šolar
Secretary General
The Multivision "For the Alps" will be available very soon in Standard DVD and Blu-ray format.
Since its creation, the Multivision is at free disposal for all alpine protected areas, to be shown in their visitor centres or during local events (high definition data avialble for download on the website after registration).
Now, it will also be available in an easy-to-use format.
Don’t hesitate to plan projections in your area, especially in your summer programme!
More about the Multivision at multivision.alparc.org
For any question, please contact: multivision [at] alparc.org
The bearded vulture went extinct in the Alps in the early 20th century. An international reintroduction program was started in 1986, based on the release of young bearded vultures born and reared in captivity. Up to 2012 a total of 184 birds have been released in the Austrian, French, Italian and Swiss Alps, the vast majority within protected areas. Since 1997 a total of 92 birds have fledged in the wild.
Observations from the whole Alpine Arc are being collected in the central online database of the International Bearded Vulture Monitoring (IBM), a collaboration of 12 partners all over the Alps. Currently about 55.000 observations are documented. For this study observation data from 2003 to 2012 and all reproduction events from 1996 to 2012 were used. For the analysis protected areas provided by ALPARC have been used.
Considering the Alpine part of each country, the observations of bearded vultures are quite evenly distributed. Fifty-one percent of observations have been located in protected areas. There was a considerable difference in the amount of data located inside protected areas between countries. Whereas in France 78% have been located inside in Switzerland this was found for only 28%. The majority of observations are found in National parks (79% of all observations inside protected areas).
No difference in the distribution has been found for the different age classes of bearded vultures on an Alpine scale. Since 1996 151 breeding events have been recorded in the Alps.
Out of these, 92 young bearded vultures have fledged in the wild. 65% of the 151 breeding events have been located within protected areas, but again relevant differences among the countries have been noted (Italy 92%, Austria 62%, France 53%, Switzerland 52%). On an Alpine scale bearded vultures have been almost equally successful breeding inside (62%) and outside (58%) protected areas.
Overall, 51% of all reported observations of bearded vultures and 65% of all reproduction events of the species have been located in protected areas in the Alps, which were estimated at 25% of the area covered by the Alpine arc. Thus protected areas definitely are centres of the known bearded vulture distribution in the Alps.
(Author : Richard Zink)
Following a large participatory work involving more than 150 scientists across the entire alpine Arc the article "The 50 most Important Questions relating to the Maintenance and Restoration of an Ecological Continuum in the European Alps " was finally published in January 2013 in the scientific open access journal PLoS One.
In order to keep this cooperation dynamics on the topic of ecological connectivity alive and to propose first answers to the questions raised in the article, a dozen scientists and practitioners came together in Innsbruck the 26th and 27th March 2014, in the frame of the Platform Ecological Network of the Alpine Convention, for a Workshop on the topic "Take advantage of land use change for improving connectivity".
Land use change scenarios in Switzerland (based on climate and demographic changes) and their effects on ecological networks have been discussed and experiences from Switzerland, Italy and France on the transfer of knowledge between science and practice shared. All participants underlined the difficulties to get in contact with politicians on this topic and to exchange with farmers, who often only see a reduction of their productive land caused by the creation of hedges or fallow ground in the activities carried out for connectivity improvement. Science must be mobilized in order to better share their results on ecosystem service provided by connectivity for example.
Discussion show different points of interest for the alpine countries :
The Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention organizes the second "Young scientists Award".
Please find more information in the press release below as well as under following link .
The signature of the Alpine Convention has marked a new historical turn. This Convention is much more than a treaty among States. It is the international recognition of the fact that a coherent development of the Alps - meant as a territorial system, necessarily requires the definition and the use of common tools, as much as the joint elaboration of policies and strategies, able to exalt the specificity of the territory.
Therefore, the book aims to be a key to access the Alpine Convention, seen not only as an international law treaty, but as a "set of tools" to pursue in a coordinate manner, a long-lasting balance between economic and social development and the need to preserve both the environment and our cultural inheritance.
It is a complete set of tools to work beyond national borders. A set of tools which are available not only to policy and decision makers, but also to the population, that in the Alps and more than in other regions, is closely linked to the territory. A territory that has to be managed with care...
In fact, the Alps are not a barrier to communications that have to be crossed through as quickly as possible, or a mine of resources that have to be exploited without any limits, or an amusement parc.