Mreža zavarovanih območij v Alpah
Dear colleagues and friends of the alpine protected areas,
The first year of activity of the “ALPARC” association is drawing to an end.
As of January 1, 2014 our team - the “Task Force Protected Areas” - along with any tangible and intangible assets, will be transferred from the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention to our association, ALPARC.
We would like to invite all the Alpine protected areas to take advantage of the joint audiovisual production by including it into their programming for 2014. The multivision “For the Alps” can be screened as part of entertainment programmes of parks and reserves, at visitors’ centres or local events.
The multivision can be downloaded as .exe and .MP4 files in 3 resolutions and 3 different language versions (FDIS / FDIE / SDIE).
It will also be available on standard DVD and blu-ray in Spring 2014.
A free copy will be sent to each protected area of the ALPARC network.
20 management bodies of Alpine protected areas have accepted the challenge of uncovering the beauty and diversity of the Alps across borders in images and music. They have collected close to 10,000 photographs for this, mainly taken by park staff such as the wardens of the parks.
Thereafter, it was necessary to choose 400 photos from the wealth of images that illustrated at the same time the different countries, landscapes, parks, cultures, species, missions and activities from across the Alpine region. The multivision invites you to an amazing and moving journey from France to Slowenia!
Duration: 23 minutes
Producer: Alex Gordon Rowbotham
Original music composed by: Sandro Di Stefano
A production by ALPARC, the Alpine Network of Protected Areas
Financing: The multivision production has been co-financed by the partner protected areas who helped to create it (list below) and by:
at the brand new visitors centre (Haus der Berge) of the Berchtesgaden National Park in the Bavarian Alps
Until then ALPARC will work with the members of this working group on different projects:
If you are in charge of environment education in an Alpine protected area and interested in the activities of this group open to all, please do not hesitate to contact marie.stoeckel(at)alparc.org.
ALPARC carried out its first ordinary general assembly on 10th January 2014 in Pinzolo in the Adamello Brenta Natural Park (I) with its members from all Alpine countries present. The general assembly approved the official reports for 2013 of the President, Treasurer and Director, as well as the framework programme 2014-2019 and the working programme 2014.
The programme reflects ALPARC’s most important areas of action:
The presence of the General Secretary of the Alpine Convention, Markus Reiterer, has emphasised the close connection between ALPARC and the Alpine Convention, even after separation of the Task Force Protected Areas from the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention. ALPARC’s programme includes an intensive cooperation on various subjects to run from this year.
ALPARC, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year (founded by France in 1995), is an own entity from now onwards and has a team to further strengthen the cooperation between the administrators of the protected areas of all Alpine countries within the framework of the Alpine Convention. In addition to France and Germany that have supported ALPARC for a long time, this status should enable other Alpine countries too to become involved more pro-actively in the concrete implementation of the Convention.
On time for the general assembly, ALPARC could welcome its 40th member: the Binntal Nature Park in Switzerland, and coinciding with going to press for this newsletter the Slovenian Logar Valley Landscape Park registered as a new official ALPARC member. A warm welcome!
You can view the activity report 2013 as a pdf file at this link .
The Adamello Brenta Geopark hosted the nineteenth edition of the meet in memory of Danilo Re at Pinzolo (Val Rendena, Trentino, Italy) from 9th to 12th January 2014.
Danilo Re is a park warden from the Province of Cuneo (Piemont, Italy) who met his death in the line of duty in 1995. For many years now, the annual Danilo Re Meet has provided a major opportunity for all those working in Alpine Protected Areas to get acquainted with one another, in particular those in the field, carrying out surveillance, facilitation and fact-finding missions.
The 2014 edition attracted 150 participants who took part in sports competitions and a thematic seminar entitled “Meeting wildlife in Nature - Programs and initiatives for visitors of alpine protected areas - between conservation and valorisation of a resource”.
Results
The detailed results of the competitions are available under this link .
For the rankings of the teams that distinguished themselves, the Berchtesgaden National Park (D) came in first place, the Paneveggio Pale di San Marino Nature Park (I) in second place and the neighbouring national parks of Gran Paradiso (I) and Vanoise (F) shared the third place.
Dear friends of the Alpine protected areas,
The network of Alpine protected areas is a success story of long years about the implementation of the Alpine Convention, which began as early as 1995 on French initiative, developed further in the following years and joined the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention in 2006 as the Task Force Protected Areas. A new stage began on 1st January 2014 with the formal independence and creation of the ALPARC association.
It has been the goal throughout all those years to interconnect the protected areas in the Alps and to strengthen the biodiversity and the sustainable development of our unique area of the Alps as a joint responsibility.
For the Alpine Convention this means that with ALPARC we can count on a strong partner, with whom we have many things in common. We also laid the foundation for the future by signing a Memorandum of cooperation. Our first task this year is to define concrete contents and joint projects, and to support one another as well as possible. ALPARC’s programme for the next two years contains a series of important ideas and plans, such as the continuation of the important work to further the development of the network, the youth work and the joint public relations work, just to name a few.
The protected areas are jewels of the Alps! Invaluable jewels! The protection of these areas and their valorisation must therefore continue to feature as a priority in implementing the Alpine Convention in the future.
I therefore look forward to the cooperation between the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention and ALPARC with a view to achieving our joint goals.
Yours,
Markus Reiterer
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It also organizes conferences, symposiums, workshops, exhibitions and meetings along with publishing documents and translations in collaboration with partner organizations.
Furthermore, the staff organizes a meeting between the ALPARC Council and General Assembly once a year in conjunction with a protected area.
Since its founding in 1995, the ALPARC staff has been operating outside of Chambéry, France. The team was originally attached to Les Ecrins National Park and, in 2006, to the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention under the title “Task Force Protected Areas”. Since 2013, the staff is employed by ALPARC.
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PLASSMANN Guido Director: Management, Biodiversity and Ecological Connectivity Spoken languages: German, French, English |
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CORONADO Oriana GIS structuring and operation; Project coordinator Spoken languages: French, English, Spanish |
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PERL Laura ALPARC CENTR'ALPS coordinator Spoken languages: German, English, French |
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MERZI Pietro Project Coordinator Spoken languages: Italian, English, French |
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GUERINI Michele Project Coordinator Spoken languages: Italian, English, French |
The missions of ALPARC are defined by the Council which is composed of managers of the alpine protected areas, representing the diversity and number of protected areas by alpine country.
It establishes the main directions which define the international work according to the priorities and requests of the protected areas.
ALPARC has a president and two vice-presidents, who lead the Council. They represent ALPARC in official matters.
The Permanent Committee of the Alpine Convention is informed about the ALPARC working programme.
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President Peter Oggier Director of the Pfyn-Finges Nature Park Switzerland |
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Vice-President Christian Schwoehrer Director of ASTERS, Conservatoire d’espaces naturels Haute-Savoie France |
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Vice-President Andrea Beltrame President of the Prealpi Giulie Nature Park Italy |
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General Secretary Roland Baier National Park Berchtesgaden Germany |
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Treasurer Peter Rupitsch Director of the Hohe Tauern/Kärnten National Park Austria |
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Franz Handler Director of the Network of Austrian Nature Parks Austria |
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Volkhard Maier Director of the Kalkalpen National Park Austria |
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Pierre Commenville Director of Les Ecrins National park France |
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Marc Joanny Regional Council Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur France |
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Gilberte Brémond Vice Director of the Regional park Baronnies Provençales France |
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Eva Aliacar Director of the Vanoise National Park France |
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Eric Fournier Vice President of the Environment for the Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France |
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Dominik Cremer Schulte Vice Director of ALPARC France |
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Claudio la Ragione Director of the Orobie Valtellinesi Regional Park Italy |
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Maria Margareth Palluber Coordinator of the Tre Cime/Drei Zinnen Nature Park Italy |
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Helmut Kindle Director Amt für Umwelt Principality of Liechtenstein |
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Astrid Claudel Rusin Environment Department Principality of Monaco |
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Christian Stauffer Director of Swiss Parks Network Switzerland |
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Andre Arih Nature Conservation Counsellor Triglav National Park Slovenia
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This poster about the activities of the Platform "Ecological networks" of the Alpine Convention was presented at the 9th Conference of parties of the CBD in Bonn/D in May 2008.
Germany's Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) is presenting a brochure on the inaugural meeting of the Ecological Network Platform under the Alpine Convention. The meeting was held in Munich/D on 29 March 2007 under the heading "Establishing an Alpine Ecological Network". The proceedings, which have now been published, contain in particular reports from the individual Alpine states and presentations of selected project examples of ecological networking from Germany, France and Austria.
Available in English only.
