The latest Alpine Network of Protected Areas activity report is now online and in printed form available! (...)

Stop – no way through! A giant wall blocks the way of pedestrians in Zurich/CH, Vienna/A, Munich/D, Ljubljana/SI, Milan/I and Lyon/F. For animals, it’s the same every day: streets and settlements increasingly fragment their migration routes. (...)

This 15th -16th November the meeting in Bolzano was the occasion to give a progress report on the project for all partners. The specific indicators of management and measures of connectivity to be adopted were indexed for each pilot area. (...)

Located in the Swiss cantons of Vaud and Fribourg, stretching from the Vaud riviera (Montreux) to Bulle, from Gstaad to Gruyères, the Gruyère Pays d'Enhaut Regional Natural Park is an unspoiled rural area in the foothills of the Alps but has also been a popular tourist destination since the 19th century. (...)

The planned Adula Park (Switzerland) is interested in your experiences of managing hunting in the core zone (...)

The Italian national parks are going through a truly serious crisis.
Despite the action of the Italian Ministry of the Environment, the subsidies to help the national parks will not even be equal to their 2009 expenses. (...)

That is the opening line of the pocket-sized brochure produced for the new educational trail through the glacier foreland in the Lötschental (Switzerland), but applies equally to the recently opened Wilde John educational walking trail in the Hohe Tauern National Park in Austria. (...)

Among the integrated programmes of actions for the sustainable use of resources, the Paneveggio Pale di San Martino Nature Park has launched a project relating to the carbon footprint. (...)

On 4 October 2010, in glorious autumn weather, the Minister for the Environment of Bavaria, Dr Markus Söder, laid the cornerstone for the Haus der Berge (Mountain House) — the new environmental education and information centre in the Berchtesgaden National Park.

It is dued to open ending 2012 (...)

From 20th to 23rd September 2010 an international exchange meeting between experts on ecological connectivity from the Alps and the Carpathians was held in Mikulov (CZ). This meeting was organised in the frame of the Memorandum of Cooperation signed in 2008 between the Convention on biological diversity (CBD), the Alpine and the Carpathian Convention. (...)

The aim: to take action and to vigorously promote research over the next decade (...)

We use the car nearly every day: to go to work, to take the children to school, to go shopping, to go hiking, to go on holiday, even to go biking. But is it really necessary? Are there no other options? (...)