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Connectivity Conservation Management

The accessibility and attractiveness of rural and landlocked areas: sustainable transport and services of general interest

Revue de géographie alpine - Journal of Alpine Research

11,000 invasive species in Europe

The first complete European report on the presence of invasive alien species of flora and fauna is now available for download at the DAISIE website. The DAISIE project was initiated by the European Commission to obtain an inventory and a documentation of the effects of immigrant species in Europe.

Special edition of the Mountain Forum Bulletin now online

The July edition of the Mountain Forum Bulletin, entitled "Mountain Biodiversity: Lifeline for the Future", is now available for download at www.mtnforum.org/rsmfnews.cfm?newsid=52 (en).

350 newly discovered species in the Himalayas

A flying frog and the world's smallest deer are among the species discovered in the Himalayas in the last ten years. According to a report recently published by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), between 1998 and 2008, a total of 353 new species were identified.

cc.alps concentrates on raising awareness during the second half of 2009!

The Swiss MAVA Foundation for Nature is making further funding available to the CIPRA cc.alps Project in the second half of 2009.

A cool head in conversation: Norbert Lantschner, Director of the ClimateHouse Agency in Bolzano/I "The cleanest energy is the energy I don't need"

The ClimateHouse Agency in Bolzano has won one of the seven prizes of the CIPRA's cc.alps Competition for its energy saving initiatives. We spoke to its Director, Norbert Lantschner at our "Cool Heads in the Hothouse" conference.

Exemplary Climate Response Measures

A great deal is being done in the Alps as a response to climate change.

Knowledge in a compact and understandable form

Cool heads and well considered strategies are required in these times of heated debate about climate measures.

Melting glaciers on your local mountain - what now?

On 24th and 25th September 2009 cc.alps is organising an international conference on the impact of melting glaciers on communities in collaboration with CIPRA Switzerland and the Swiss Foundation for Landscape Preservation in Crans Montana/CH.

International Competition for Mountain Photography and Film

Photographs and films on the subject of Mountain, Landscape and Nature, from the mountains of Lombardy to the world's highest peaks may now be submitted as entries for the "Orobie Film Festival" International Film and Photography Competition.

Why do you go hiking?

Together with the French Ramblers' Association and the French Alpine Club, the French association "Grande Traversée des Alpes" are trying to find the answer to the simple question, why do tourists go hiking on mountain and woodland paths or through dunes and deserts?

SWOMM 2008 - Urban Mobility in the mountain regions

The AlpCheck Project

New alpine architecture

Scientific Workshop On Mountain Mobility and Transport SWOMM 2007

Water and water management issues - Report on the State of the Alps

SYNTHESIS REPORT from CLIMATE CHANGE

CIPRA in the age of climate change

Making the connection: Involving stakeholders in the implementation of ecological networks in Europe

PANet Protected Area Networks

Effectiveness of the global Protected Area network in representing species biodiversity

Study of the potential wildlife passages in the south-eastern Italian Alps, with the special reference to the Brown Bear

Towns and sustainable development

mobilogisch!

Alpine Week of 2008: Innovatin [in] the Alps

eco.mont

Size-dependent resistance of protected areas to land-use change

Ecological networks as conceptual frameworks or operational tools in conservation