What opportunities and potential do protected areas have to meet the major challenges posed by climate change? And how can the protection of nature, landscape and biodiversity also be strengthened outside of large-scale protected areas? In order to answer these questions and to find and implement joint approaches, ALPARC CENTR'ALPS has launched the project ‘Biodiversity conservation in times of climate change’, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection.