Mreža zavarovanih območij v Alpah
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The Alpine network of protected areas, that means we all together, must continue to develop, to think future-oriented and to be even more powerful and assertive. For this we need you all. |
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ALPARC needs a legal basis and structure in order to be able to implement larger shared projects, but also and above all in order to give a greater image and international weight to the protected areas of the Alps. The principal leitmotiv, however, remains the provision of concrete, efficient and grounded contributions towards the application of the Alpine Convention and its protocols, especially as regards the “Protection of nature and safeguarding of landscapes”. |
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The last General Assembly , which took place in Poschiavo /CH on 7th of September 2012, was marked by a common declaration of the present protected areas, indicating their intention to create an association ALPARC: “Aware of the ecological, economic and social stakes, and appealing for a better coordination and coordination of the actions implemented throughout the Alps, the protected Alpine areas and territorial communities signing the present declaration have decided to pool their reflections in order to create the ‘ALPARC – Alpine Network of Protected Areas’ association, a tool of Alpine cooperation”. |
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The date of this constitutive assembly is now scheduled: it will take place on Friday morning, 18th of January 2013, in the heart of one of the big alpine protected areas event, the Danilo Re Memorial, organised for this 18th edition by the Vanoise National Park in Pralognan–la–Vanoise /F. |
The founding members of the association will be exempt from admission fees.
Please confirm your participation at this important assembly by simple e-mail to info@alparc.org before 21st December 2012. The documents referring to the agenda will be sent after your registration.
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9.00 a.m. |
Welcome by the President and Vice-presidents of the International Steering Committee ALPARC |
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Welcome by the Director of the Vanoise Nationalpark |
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Welcome from the French Authorities |
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9.30 a.m. |
History, evolution and objectives of ALPARC |
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10.00 a.m. |
Proposal of Statutes and Internal rules, short discussion |
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10.30 a.m. |
Proposal of a first framework program 2014-2020 |
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11.00 a.m. |
Creation of the association by membership declarations |
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11.30 a.m. |
Election of the Council of ALPARC |
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12.00 a.m. |
Festive session and media release |
The Constitutive Assembly will take place during the Danilo Re Event. The morning of the 18th is not covered by competitions of the Trophy and gives the opportunity to all protected areas managers, or representatives, to join the meeting.
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The Alpine network of protected areas, that means we all together, must continue to develop, to think future-oriented and to be even more powerful and assertive. For this we need you all. |
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ALPARC needs a legal basis and structure in order to be able to implement larger shared projects, but also and above all in order to give a greater image and international weight to the protected areas of the Alps. The principal leitmotiv, however, remains the provision of concrete, efficient and grounded contributions towards the application of the Alpine Convention and its protocols, especially as regards the “Protection of nature and safeguarding of landscapes”. |
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The last General Assembly , which took place in Poschiavo /CH on 7th of September 2012, was marked by a common declaration of the present protected areas, indicating their intention to create an association ALPARC: “Aware of the ecological, economic and social stakes, and appealing for a better coordination and coordination of the actions implemented throughout the Alps, the protected Alpine areas and territorial communities signing the present declaration have decided to pool their reflections in order to create the ‘ALPARC – Alpine Network of Protected Areas’ association, a tool of Alpine cooperation”. |
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The date of this constitutive assembly is now scheduled: it will take place on Friday morning, 18th of January 2013, in the heart of one of the big alpine protected areas event, the Danilo Re Memorial, organised for this 18th edition by the Vanoise National Park in Pralognan–la–Vanoise /F. |
The founding members of the association will be exempt from admission fees.
Please confirm your participation at this important assembly by simple e-mail to info@alparc.org before 21st December 2012. The documents referring to the agenda will be sent after your registration.
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9.00 a.m. |
Welcome by the President and Vice-presidents of the International Steering Committee ALPARC |
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Welcome by the Director of the Vanoise Nationalpark |
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Welcome from the French Authorities |
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9.30 a.m. |
History, evolution and objectives of ALPARC |
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10.00 a.m. |
Proposal of Statutes and Internal rules, short discussion |
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10.30 a.m. |
Proposal of a first framework program 2014-2020 |
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11.00 a.m. |
Creation of the association by membership declarations |
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11.30 a.m. |
Election of the Council of ALPARC |
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12.00 a.m. |
Festive session and media release |
The Constitutive Assembly will take place during the Danilo Re Event. The morning of the 18th is not covered by competitions of the Trophy and gives the opportunity to all protected areas managers, or representatives, to join the meeting.
After 17 years of activity, ALPARC was formed on January 18 as association to formalize its network and further strengthen transalpine cooperation and international projects.
ALPARC includes all management bodies of protected areas in the perimeter of the Alpine Convention and is the largest federation of protected areas in the Alps.
The constituent assembly was held on January 18, 2013 at Pralognan-la-Vanoise. It was attended by 34 protected areas founding members of the association. The two French alpine regions: Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur have also confirmed their commitment to ALPARC to support international cooperation of their protected areas. ALPARC counts since the beginning of its creation as an association a third of protected areas with personnel managers in their structure. Its members come from all Alpine countries.
ALPARC, the Alpine Network of Protected Areas, in fact cooperated since 1995 with all types of large protected areas (national parks, regional and nature reserves, biosphere reserves, ...) within the scope of the Alpine Convention to contribute to its implementation through concrete actions. The signatory countries of this international treaty are Austria, Germany, France, Italy, the Principalities of Liechtenstein and Monaco, Slovenia and Switzerland.
ALPARC realizes since many years projects and activities about:
- The preservation of biodiversity and the establishment of an ecological continuum,
- Regional development and quality of life in alpine regions
- Environmental education and awareness raising of the Alpine Mountain.
The new structure will further strengthen the implementation of major international projects on these topics.
The constituent assembly of ALPARC elected its Board of Directors, which consists of managers of protected areas in all Alpine countries. ALPARC is represented by its elected presidents: Michael Vogel, director of the National Park Berchtesgaden (D), Alain Brandeis, Director of the Mercantour National Park (F) and Wolfgang Platter, Director of the Stelvio National Park (I)
Contact :
ALPARC / Maison des Parcs et de la Montagne / Chambéry
Mail: info@alparc.org
Tel : +33 (0)4 79 26 55 00
the Vanoise National Park hosted 34 teams of the whole alpine space for the Alpine park rangers’ competition
and thematic meeting in the charming family ski resort of Pralognan-la-Vanoise.
The Vacanciel centre was used for accommodation, catering and venue for the thematic events:
The ALPARC constitutive assembly – Together for the Alps,
The park staff’s thematic meeting with this year’s theme:
“From Monitoring to Local Education”
The winning team was Triglav National Park 1 (S)
Second place was taken by Berchtesgaden National Park (D).
In third place was Hohe Tauern/Tirol National Park (A).
The best mixed men’s and women’s team was the team from the Mercantour National Park (F) and all honour to the only women-only team from the Adamello Brenta Nature Park (I) !
Mountaineering ski was won by Benjamin Plumecocq / PN Vanoise (F)
Best female performance: Renate Biedermann / ALPARC (F)
Nordic skiing: Alberto Peracino / Gran Paradiso National Park (I)
Best female performance: Vajolet Mase, Adamello Brenta 1 Nature Park (I)
Giant slalom : Alois Hohenwarter / Berchtesgaden National Park (D)
Best female performance : Mireille Coulon / Les Ecrins National Park (F)
Rifle shooting: Anton Stular / Triglav National Park 1 (S)
Best female performance: Alenka Hace / Triglav National Park (S) of the mixed cross-border team with the Prealpi Giulie Nature Park (I)
Once again a big thank you to the Vanoise team for the faultless organisation of this event. Next year will be the turn of the Adamello Brenta Natural Park!
Below you will find the team results, individual ranking, presentations from the thematic meeting and press release from the Vanoise National Park.
ALPARC has shown a number of possibilities how municipalities can pro-actively participate in the implementation of ecological networks in a brochure published in parallel to the movie “For hermits and fire salamanders – How municipalities connect habitats in the Alps” within the Ecological Continuum initiative.
The 16-page brochure "Step by Step to ecological connectivity " gives an overview of different activities for municipalities in the Alpine region illustrating how they can improve the ecological connectivity on their municipal ground through simple concrete actions.
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The focus lies on individual areas, such as municipal spatial and land use planning, management of green areas or municipal lighting, as well as on individual stakeholder groups (agriculture, hunters, citizens …). The brochure offers a number of arguments to councillors and staff explaining the significance of these actions in simple terms, not only for the environment but also for the quality of life of all members of the community. The actions presented in the brochure have been selected from the collection of the catalogue of measures, and were partly tested in the pilot regions of the ECONNECT project. |
The brochure is available in 4 languages (German, French, Italian, English).
Link to the movie: http://www.alpine-ecological-network.org/information-services/film-for-municipalities/film-for-municipalities?set_language=en
Link to download the brochure: http://www.alpine-ecological-network.org/information-services/publications/5172?set_language=en
The workshop " Regional Development and Quality of Life” took place last 15 and 16 July 2013 in the brand new house of the mountains in Berchtesgaden.
During a day and a half, participants had the opportunity to exchange all together on the content of a future project concerning regional development in alpine rural areas (and in protected areas too), taking into account concepts like "sobriety", "degrowth" and "post-fossil society".
This workshop, co-organized by CIPRA and ALPARC prepares the 2014’s work of the Alpine Network of Protected Areas on this thematic priority
For many scientists dealing with nature protection and ecology, biodiversity, glacier research, the global change, sustainable development or long-term research in regions largely unaffected by humans, the 5th “International Symposium for Research in Protected Areas” of the Hohe Tauern National Park and the National Parks Austria was a must:
79 speakers and more than 100 posters set the scene for the conference programme under the theme “Dynamics and conservation in protected areas - challenges for research and management”, organised in parallel in numerous themed sessions.
This international scientific and protected area conference has been held every four years since 1996 and is now highly regarded within the scientific community. The interest has therefore been great to join in with an own contribution.
Around 300 delegates from over 20 nations used the opportunity to exchange ideas and network about current research results, hypotheses and project ideas directly related to protected areas in an intense and productive atmosphere of this three-day event in the Mittersill National Park centre.
Hence the symposium once again acted as a successful trans-regional platform beyond the boundaries of different expert areas, research tasks and protected areas.
A public evening event formed the closure of this year’s expert conference with the first-time presentation of the results of the research project “100 years National Park Idea in the Hohe Tauern”, and the announcement of the winners of the National Parks Austria Science Award 2013.
ALPARC obtained together with international partners a new Alpine Space Project valorizing former project results within regional and European policies.
GreenAlps shapes the framework for a sustainable and efficient European nature and biodiversity conservation policy for the Alps. It relies on two key projects covering essential issues how to best conserve alpine biodiversity by integrating the concept of an ecological continuum in European and regional policies (ECONNECT ) and how to avoid negative impacts of renewable energy production on nature (recharge.green ).
The further integration of results from these projects and other topic related projects in policy strategies is based on the valuation of ecosystem services and on a reliable definition of the carrying capacity of Alpine natural habitats. An intact alpine biodiversity is calling for long-term orientated land use planning, new ways of cooperation and a precautionary approach of other key sectors. The successful governance model of pilot areas working beyond protected sites will help to verify the practicability of the proposed strategies and their possible implementation in European policies.
Partners of this project are : ALPARC (The Alpine Network of Protected Areas, Lead Partner) (F); CIPRA International (FL); EURAC (European Academy of Bolzano) (I); FIWI (Wildlife Institute of Vienna) (A); Berchtesgaden National Park (D); Kalkalpen National Park (A); Prealpi Giulie Nature Park (I); Triglavski Narodni Park (SI).
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Dear colleagues, dear friends in the Alpine protected areas, |
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On 18th January 2013, the „ALPARC“ association was founded with more than 30 founding members from all categories of protected areas and regional institutions. I am very pleased, and also a bit proud, about this strong interest in the now formalised structure of the Network of Alpine Protected Areas, which has already existed as an informal trans-Alpine network since 1995 also promoting the cooperation between our parks and protected areas. And it has done so across all language boundaries! |
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This has given us an own legal entity from this year onwards allowing us to act independently as a network and to represent the protected areas more strongly in the international arena. After many discussions about the statutes of the network, we can in particular progress more vigorously the international cooperation between protected areas and our partners with certainly new, interesting and pioneering projects for the Alps. |
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From the 1st January 2014, our Task Force Protected Area team, which currently still belongs to the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention, will also be grouped under the ALPARC association and then be available as the branch office of the association as the direct contact. Up until the end of 2013 there are a number of formalities to be completed with the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention, which we will do in a very constructive way. |
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The foundation for further close cooperation with the Alpine Convention has already been laid through the drafting and signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation and will now be defined in detail and implemented together with the new Secretary General of the Alpine Convention, Markus Reiterer. After all, the ALPARC network was created from its inception – on French initiative – as a contribution to implement the Alpine Convention. |
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I therefore look forward with great pleasure to a strong and constructive cooperation with the Alpine Convention, which should develop more concretely in the coming months and years giving our protected areas a more prominent place within the Convention in accordance with our slogan “Together for the Alps”. |
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I would like to take the initiative again at this point to ask all protected areas of the Alps that are not yet members of ALPARC to register with the association, in order to further increase the weight of the protected areas in the joint responsibility for the biodiversity and sustainable development of this unique area of the Alps. |
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Dr. Michael VOGEL, ALPARC President |
The GreenAlps project has been recently approved in the frame of the 5th call of the ETC Alpine Space Programme. The main aim of the project is to capitalize on the results of previous projects in order to draft a long term, sustainable and integrated environmental policy vision for the Alps. GreenAlps will go beyond classical policy recommendations by giving concrete perspectives for several key sectors, in order to explain how ecological connectivity and sustainable use of natural resources are the basis for the provision of Ecosystem services.
The Lead Partner (LP), the Alpine Network of Protected Areas, launches a tender for management support for all tasks of the overall transnational project administration, co-ordination and financial management. Find the procurements, the terms of reference and all other relevant documents below. Participation is open to all legal persons who are established in a Member State of the European Union or in a country or territory of the regions covered and/or authorised by the specific instruments applicable to the programme under which the contract is financed. Deadline for tender submissions is the 28. 10. 2013.
Le REEMA, CIPRA France et ALPARC sont relais du programme international "Youth Alpine Dialogue" pour les Alpes françaises. A ce titre, nous recherchons des jeunes (15-18 ans et 18-30 ans) pour participer à ce projet original, convivial et porteur d'idées ! Nous comptons sur vous pour nous aider à créer un dialogue alpin vivant !
Plus d'information dans l'appel ci-joint.
Photo legend, from left to right : the Secretary General of the Alpine Convention, Markus Reiterer ; the deputy governor of the Land of Tyrol, Mrs. Ingrid Felipe ; the ALPARC president Michael Vogel ; the representative of the Danilo Re steering committee Martin Šolar and the director of the National Park Hohe Tauern - Tyrol, Hermann Stotter.
The deputy governor of Tyrol, Mrs. Ingrid Felipe, officially announced it on March 17th, 2014 in Innsbruck in presence of the ALPARC President and the Secretary General of the Alpine Convention: the National Park Hohe Tauern - Tyrol will host the General Assembly 2015 of the Alpine Network of Protected Areas - ALPARC and the Memorial Danilo Re.
The National Park Hohe Tauern organizes for the first time in the history of ALPARC its General Assembly. The park, who is one of the founding members of the network and very active since the beginning, will so welcome the two most important events of the ALPARC calendar 2015 in the Defereggental in the valley of St. Jacob, where the Memorial sport event as well as the gatherings of field agents and managers of the protected areas will take place.
ALPARC and also the Danilo Re Memorial will both celebrate their 20th anniversary next year: one more reason to offer, beside thematic exchanges and sports events, also festive moments. A central theme of the General Assembly will be the future evolution of the network and its priorities for ....the next 20 years.