Das UNESCO-Welterbe Schweizer Alpen Jungfrau-Aletsch hat bereits ab dem 18. Jahrhundert die Menschen in der Region und Gäste aus aller Welt inspiriert.

Mit der Welterbe-Woche vom 30. September bis 04. Oktober 2014 wollen wir die Schönheit der Natur und deren Einfluss auf die Menschheit in den Fokus stellen. Bei vier geführten Exkursionen in die Welterbe-Region und dem Welterbe-Treff erleben Sie die grossartige Natur und erfahren von Experten, wie die Natur früher und heute das Handeln des Menschen beeinflusst.

Die gesamte Bevölkerung ist dazu herzlich eingeladen. Machen Sie mit und lassen Sie sich inspirieren!

Alle Informationen finden Sie hier

Quelle: UNESCO Welterbe Schweizer Alpen Jungfrau-Aletsch

The ALPARC Board

The Board is one of ALPARC’s executive bodies. It is responsible for the administration and financial management of the ALPARC coordination unit and is chaired by a President, two vice presidents, a treasurer and a general secretary. Board members are elected every four years by the ALPARC Council.

Board members:

The ALPARC Council

The ALPARC Council defines the main missions and actions of the association on an intra-regional level. To represent the diversity of the region, the Council is made up of Alpine Protected Area managers from the Alpine countries. Council members represent the interests and priorities of protected areas and are actively involved in decision-making processes.

Council members:

	President Peter Oggier Director of the Pfyn-Finges Nature Park Switzerland		Vice-President Christian Schwoehrer Director of ASTERS, Conservatoire d’espaces naturels de Haute-Savoie France		Vice-President Andrea Beltrame President of the Prealpi Giulie Nature Park Italy
	General Secretary Roland Baier Director of National Park Berchtesgaden Germany		Treasurer Barbara Pucker Director of the Hohe Tauern/Kärnten National Park Austria
	Julia Friedlmayer Director of the Network of Austrian Nature Parks Austria		Josef Forstinger Director of the Kalkalpen National Park Austria
	Ludovic Schultz Director of Les Ecrins National Park France		Olivier Putot Director of the Vercors Regional Natural Park France		Xavier Eudes Director of the Vanoise National Park France
	Luigi Spadone Director of the Val Grande National Park Italy		Astrid Wiedenhofer South Tyrolian Nature Parks Italy		Daniele Stellin Mont Avic Nature Park Italy
	Anna Weber Head of Forest and Landscape Department Office for the Environment Principality of Liechtenstein		Astrid Claudel Rusin Head of Sustainable Development Division Environment Department Principality of Monaco
	Dominique Weissen Director of the Swiss Parks Network Switzerland		Ruedi Haller Director of the Swiss National Park Switzerland		Tit Potočnik Triglav National Park Slovenia

Roselyne Anselmet died Saturday 23th of August falling from a rock during her work on the fauna census. 
Since 1982, Roselyne  was a ranger of the Vanoise National Park (France) and she used  to work in the village of Bonneval-sur-Arc. Roselyne has been one of the first women taking part in the park ranger team.
It is the fourth death for work of a park ranger in the Vanoise in fifty years.
The protected area community, ALPARC’s  team  and members and all the alpine rangers  are deeply touch by the tragic death of Roselyne Anselmet.

During the 2015 edition of the “Danilo Re Memorial”,  Roselyne  Anselmet  will be honored  with a special celebration.

Source : read the article and the Vanoise National Park press release, in French

“CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE ALPS – impacts, strategies and people’s initiatives”   

Witness the effects of climatic changes in the Alps, demonstrate your personal concern, illustrate the response strategies implemented in your region, or take it with humor and win prizes!

 
Participate in the 2014 edition of the Photo-contest of the Alpine Convention and help us to show the reality of climate change in the Alps. 2015 is a crucial year for our climate with the 21st World Climate Conference expected to bring about a new global deal to follow the Kyoto Protocol.   
 
For participation you have to agree with the terms and conditions and upload your photo on this link. The 12 best picture will be printed in the 2015 calendar of the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention and will be in the selection for the future photo exhibitions.   
 
Together with 3 copies of the calendar the winners of the photo-contest will also receive one of these prices.

Source of information:  Alpine Convention

Two new visitor centres  have just opened their doors : the entirely renovated Maison du Parc national des Ecrins (FR) in Vallouise,   and the Champorcher  Visitor Centre in the   Mont Avic  Nature Park (IT).

The new Champorcher Visitor Centre in the Mont Avic Nature Park (Italy)
This new visitor centre was inaugurated on 1st August 2014 in the “Villa Biamonti” , a former early 20th century tourist centre which has now been entirely renovated. It contains a totally interactive exhibition where the geological and biological aspects of mountain habitats are shown.

During the inauguration, a new 1:25.000 scale map of the park was presented and a new application for Smartphone: the “Parco Mont Avic” APP was launched. With the Mont Avic “App” visitors have on their Smartphone a guide to the hikes in the park and all the useful information about refuges. The application can be downloaded for free for iPhone and Android.
For more information visit this page: www.montavic.it    

The new Maison du Parc national des Ecrins in Vallouise (France)

In an entirely renovated building, with a totally revamped layout, the new Maison du Parc de Vallouise opened its doors on 4th June 2014.

The new building was officially inaugurated on 5th July by Ségolène Royal, the minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy. The Minister defined the new house as “remarkable and exemplary”.

The park can be explored on 3 large “floors”: the Durance valley, the mountain pastures and forests, and, finally, the peaks and glaciers. The exhibition is made up of sound tales, games, interactive parts, multimedia, tactile models, more traditional panels… so many complementary media that will let visitors discover and share in the heritage of the valley. A layout  with  every member of the public in mind : families, children and with accessibility for the four types of  disability.

For more information visit this page: www.ecrins-parcnational.fr

To find out about the other visitor centres of the Alpine Protected Areas, visit the dedicated page ALPARC!

ALPARC wishes Happy Birthday to theSwiss National Park (SNP) who celebrates its centenary. Founded on 1st August 1914, the pioneers created a unique wilderness oasis where the natural development occurs without human influence. In the oldest national park of the Alps, this remarkable nature experiment has been scientifically observed and documented for hundred years.

In occasion of the Swiss National Park's Birthday, ALPARC offers  new postcards "special centenary". 

A colourful bouquet of anniversary projects provides a multi-facetted insight into a century of wilderness development. 

The events:                                                                                                                                 
Working towards a common goal: the SNP creates “Wilderness” with an exhibition tour in 16 large shopping centres in the entire country.

“LAINA VIVA – the legendary creation of the Swiss national park”  An  open-air theatre created especially to celebrate the Swiss National Park’s 100th anniversary will show on stage during all the summer.

National park ON TOUR :An interactive exhibition with 30 animated origami-style animals.

100 years Swiss National Park: LA FESTA: The 1st August 2014 is  the 100th anniversary of the Swiss National Park’s foundation. In Zernez, a full programme for young and old, commencing at 10:00 with a children’s concert, and finishing with a big birthday party in the festival marquee. At the main ceremony, Federal Councillor Doris Leuthard,  will deliver birthday greetings from the Confederation.

In September, the SNP will add a West-Swiss note at the “Comptoir Suisse” in Lausanne, and the National Park Centre in Zernez will show an anniversary exhibition in 2014 about people who have shaped the SNP in the past and today.

Finally, various publications, such as the new atlas, complement the programme.

More information:

www.nationalpark.ch/jubiläum
www.facebook.com/schweiz.nationalpark

 
The competition «FOTOGRAFARE IL PARCO» (Take a picture of the Park) is open.

Arrived at the 10th edition, the international competition is organized by the Stelvio National Park (IT), the Gran Paradiso National Park (IT) , Abruzzo, Latinum and Molise National Park (IT) and by the French National Park Vanoise in collaboration with Swaroski Optik Italia.

Photographs,experts and passionate, send your pictures until the 1st December 2014! The competition is free.

Further information at the official new web site. There you can download the program, the registration form and you have practical information.
From the official web site you can register online for the competition.

For further information  please contact:

Consorzio del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio                                      Parc National de la Vanoise
Tel. +39 0342900811                                                                       Tel. 0033-0479628964
e-mail: stelviopark@fotografareilparco.it                                             e-mail : pn.vanoise@fotografareilparco.it

Ente Parco Nazionale Gran Paradiso                                                                   
Tel. 0118606211                                         
e-mail: pngp@fotografareilparco.it                

Ente Parco Nazionale d’Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise
Tel. 08639113220
e-mail: parcoabruzzo@fotografareilparco.it                 

Swarovski Optik Italia srl  
Tel. +39 0458349069
e-mail: info@swarovskioptik.it         

Natura 2000 protects areas of high biodiversity value across the European Union. It is the largest coordinated multi-national network of protected areas in the world, covering more than 18% of the European terrestrial territory of the Member States as well as significant marine areas.

As establishment of Natura 2000 nears completion the focus is increasingly shifting to the effective management and restoration of sites in the network. Ensuring a fully functional Natura 2000 network is central to achieving the EU target of halting and reversing the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services in the EU by 2020.

The EU Natura 2000 network is generally not a network of strictly protected areas in which no economic activities should take place. Therefore in most Natura 2000 sites, a wilderness approach will not be the most appropriate form of management. However, in specific cases, a wilderness approach can be the most appropriate or even necessary management approach for those specific Natura 2000 sites hosting habitat types and species of Community interest whose maintenance or restoration to a favourable conservation status is dependent on some degree of wilderness qualities and natural processes. And there will be sites for which a wilderness approach can be useful but not necessarily the only way to restore or maintain the species and habitats at a favourable conservation status. This guidance document is applicable to those specific Natura 2000 sites.

Download the EU Guidelines on wilderness and wild areas in Natura 2000

Source: EU Commission "Guidelines on wilderness and wild areas in Natura 2000"

Le projet Territoires à énergie positive Alpins (TEPos Alpins) mené par CIPRA France, vise à mettre en réseau des territoires de montagne faiblement dotés en moyens humains, techniques et financiers avec des territoires déjà engagés dans la transition énergétique. Les objectifs sont d’impulser une réflexion énergétique chez les TEPos Alpins et de leur apporter un appui sur les questions qui les préoccupent en matière énergétique.

Six territoires aux caractéristiques variées sont désormais dans le projet (quelques autres sont encore en réflexion). Il s’agit de la commune de Sausses (04), la communauté de communes du Pays des Ecrins (05), la communauté de communes Haute Maurienne Vanoise (73), l’Assemblée du Pays Tarentaise Vanoise (73), le Pays Asses, Verdon, Vaïre, Var (04) et le parc naturel régional des Préalpes d’Azur (06).

CIPRA France ira à leur rencontre afin d’identifier les freins auxquels ils sont confrontés pour mettre en place des actions sur leur territoire. Un voyage d’étude se déroulera dans les Bauges en septembre, où les TEPos Alpins pourront bénéficier de retours d’expériences ainsi que visualiser des réalisations de production d’énergies renouvelables et des actions de réduction des consommations énergétiques.

Article publié sur www.territoires-energie-positive.fr par CIPRA France

From 3rd to 10th July 2014 the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention is organizing a crossing of the Alps for journalists focusing on family farming.

The 2014 We Are Alps Tour is concentrating on the people in our region and on their livelihoods. This year’s topic is highlighting 2014 as the United Nations Year of Family Farming.
Throughout the tour participants will travel using sustainable modes of transport: trains, buses, bicycle, walking, etc.

We invite you to stay tuned and follow the daily posts about the tour on the Alpine Convention  webpage (www.alpconv.org)  or on Facebook.                

Download the news regarding the Kick-off of the “We are Alps” tour 2014 (4 July 2014) in Domodossola and the whole Program of the tour.

The REEMA and the Coordination Montagne, in collaboration with other education and mountain professionals, just published in French a practice guide on ” Youth and mountain dew.  A practice guide to succeed your trip with minor” (Jeunes et refuges. GUIDE PARATIQUE  pour réussir sa sortie en refuge de montagne pour des mineurs encadrés ).

This guide provides recommendations, testimonials, comments and a whole of range of information on mountain dew trips organization.  
It aims to support project planners (volunteers, educators, animators, teachers…) on their mountain trip organization.

Download the guide (only available in French) at: www.reema.fr and  www.coordination-montagne.fr

Press Release at : REEMA

In order to solve the social conflict over large carnivores, on 10 June 2014, the European Commission launched the EU platform on Coexistence between People and Large Carnivores in Brussels.

The Platform will support constructive dialogue between key stakeholder organizations at the European level.

It will be the place where farmers, conservationists, hunters, landowners and scientists can exchange ideas and best practices on sharing the same land with large carnivores.

For more information original press release:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-648_en.htm