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Alpine experience for AfghanistanMountain Wilderness International regularly trains young mountain guides in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The first Alpinism course focusing on a caring approach to nature in the upper Panshir valley was completed only recently. 22 young Afghan men and women took part in the training course. |
NewsInternational People |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Decrease in water runoff from the Swiss AlpsA new study analyses the impact of a potential climate change on hydrological discharge regimes from the Swiss Alpine region for the period between 2020 and 2050. Eleven catchment areas with different glaciation rates and altitude ranges were examined. |
NewsSwitzerland, International Water, Energy, Climate |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Alpine Protected Areas - from co-operation to ecological networkThe Alpine Network of Protected Areas is celebrating its 10th anniversary as part of the international conference on "Alpine Protected Areas: Between History, Development and Challenges". |
NewsFrance, International Nature |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Via Alpina via the internetVia Alpina, the project for a network of long-distance hiking trails, now features a new internet website at www.via-alpina.org . The Trails heading provides an opportunity to travel all 341 stages of the Via Alpina virtually, using interactive maps of different scales. |
NewsInternational Tourism & Leisure |
Apr 03, 2007 |
MARS and FUNalpin examine sustainability in the Alpine regionAs part of the MARS Interreg IIIB project (Monitoring the Alpine Region's Sustainability) 22 partners from six countries (A, CH, D, FL, I, SI) worked on drawing up a set of indicators for measuring and evaluating sustainable development in the Alpine region. |
NewsInternational |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Plug-in IT services for small and medium-sized businessesThe Alise project (Alps IT Service Network) is designed to provide those small and medium-sized businesses for which IT operations have become a burden with all the IT services they require directly from the Network. |
NewsAustria, International, Italy, Slovenia Economy |
Apr 03, 2007 |
CIPRA's Future in the Alps competition - 570 projects onlineThe Future in the Alps competition being held across the Alps has been very well received. By the July 20 submission deadline individuals and organisations from all eight Alpine countries had submitted more than 570 projects. |
NewsInternational |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Climate protection measures for a hot BavariaRepresentatives of Bavaria's Ministries of the Environment, Economic Affairs, Agriculture and the Interior, and of the Bund Naturschutz have agreed on around a dozen climate protection measures in a further step in implementing the Climate Protection Alliance they concluded in 2004. |
NewsGermany, International Climate |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Space observation to assist risk management in the AlpsSatellites are to be used in a bid to improve the risk management of landslides, avalanches, mudslides and floods in Alpine regions. This is the objective of the latest ASSIST (Alpine Safety, Security and Informational Services and Technologies) research project, which is currently being launched as part of the European "Global Monitoring for Environment and Security" (GMES) initiative. |
NewsInternational Nature, People |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Exchange of know-how on hydrogeological disruptionsThe CATCHRISK project (mitigation of hydro-geological risk in alpine catchments) is in its end phase. |
NewsNature, Water, People |
Apr 03, 2007 |
New publication: Mountaineering villages to enjoyThe latest brochure of the Austrian Alpine Association (ÖAV) features hiking and mountaineering regions in Austria which actively implement the Alpine Convention's Tourism Protocol. |
NewsAustria, International Tourism & Leisure |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Berchtesgaden National Park in a wheelchairThe model project "No Barriers at the Berchtesgaden National Park" is to get underway in Berchtesgaden/D in July 2005. The project is to look at ways in which people with physical disabilities or restricted mobility can gain access to unspoilt natural environments. |
NewsGermany, International People, Nature |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Red deer a tasty treat for Italian wolvesItalian researchers have been analysing the excrements of two packs of wolves roaming Italy's Alpine region. |
NewsItaly, International Nature, People |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Partnership between the Alps and the CarpathiansOn 16 June UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme, and the WWF launched a new partnership between the Alps and the Carpathians in Montecatini/I. |
NewsInternational Nature |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Why wait? Pull down those unused mountain installations now!Anyone who comes across unused installations or buildings while out hiking or mountaineering in the Swiss Alps should take part in the Wilderness Olympics 2005 and notify Mountain Wilderness (MW) of their "find". |
NewsSwitzerland, International, France Nature |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Trading emissions to achieve "zero emissions" target at the Olympic GamesTurin/I is aiming to maximise the reduction in the output of greenhouse gases during the forthcoming Winter Olympics with the aid of its HECTOR (Heritage Climate Torino) programme launched in 2004. |
NewsItaly, International Climate, Tourism & Leisure |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Nepalese Sherpas in Tyrol27 Sherpas from Nepal are currently attending training courses at refuges in Austria's Tyrol province. |
NewsAustria, International Tourism & Leisure, People |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Insufficient snowfall a cause of recessive glaciersLower winter precipitation has been one of the causes, along with global warming, behind melting glaciers over the past 150 years. These are the main findings of a study by researchers at the Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de Grenoble/F and the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich/CH, published in the Geophysical Research Letters. |
NewsInternational Climate, Soil quality |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Alpine transit exchange - a feasible, efficient and cost-effactive solutionAn Alpine transit exchange is seen as a viable option for promoting a shift from road to rail for transalpine heavy goods vehicle traffic. A report commissioned by the Swiss Ministry of Transport has confirmed the technical feasibility and economic acceptability of such a solution. |
NewsSwitzerland, International Mobility & Transport |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Dolomites of Peace - debating peace today at yesterday's scenes of war"Dolomites of Peace" is the name of a series of nine events devoted to the subject of peace to be run by writers, philosophers, actors, church representatives and experts between 1 July and 24 August. |
NewsSouth Tyrol, Italy, International People |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Fewer glaciers, more earthquakes?According to the results of research carried out by the Universities of Münster/D and Berne/CH, the advance and retreat of glaciers and lakes can trigger earthquakes. |
NewsInternational Soil quality, Nature, People |
Apr 03, 2007 |
2005 European Solar Prize announcedEurosolar is again awarding the German and European Solar Prizes in 2005, with 31 August as the deadline for submissions. |
NewsInternational, Germany Energy |
Apr 03, 2007 |
France ratifies all Alpine Convention protocolsFollowing the decision taken by the Chamber of Deputies on 10 March, the French Senate approved ratification of the remaining protocols to the Alpine Convention in a unanimous vote with just one abstention on 12 May. |
NewsFrance, International |
Apr 03, 2007 |
2005 Junior Ranger Camp - Protected areas and cross-border co-operationFrom 31 July to 6 August the Gesäuse National Park in Austria is hosting an International Junior Ranger Camp. Junior Ranger is the name of a European pilot project co-ordinated by EUROPARC which is targeted at young people from the affiliated protected areas and the regions bordering on them. |
NewsAustria, International Nature, People |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Snowcats and man-made snow as a threat to plant diversityThe number of plant species growing on mountain slopes used for ski trails in Switzerland is eleven percent lower than on adjoining sites. The reduction is especially striking in the case of woody and early flowering plants. |
NewsSwitzerland, International Nature, Tourism & Leisure |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Research into environmental impacts along the main Alpine traffic arteriesThis spring saw the launch of ALPNAP, a new project in the framework of the EU's Interreg IIIB Alpine Space Programme. |
NewsInternational Mobility & Transport |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Italy: mountain peak to be illuminated during the 2006 Winter OlympicsDuring the 2006 Winter Olympics the local authority for Valli Po, Bronda e Infernotto plans to illuminate the summit of Monviso, the mountain that is the hallmark of the Piedmont. |
NewsItaly, International Tourism & Leisure |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Breakthrough in the Lötschberg railway tunnel28 April saw the breakthrough right in the middle of the almost 3-kilometer-long Lötschberg rail tunnel under the Swiss Alps. |
NewsSwitzerland, International Mobility & Transport |
Apr 03, 2007 |
Conference to mark the 70th anniversary of Passo Stelvio National ParkThis year marks the seventieth anniversary of Passo Stelvio National Park in Italy. To celebrate the occasion the management of the National Park is organising a big weekend event with three scientific conferences on 8-11 September 2005. |
NewsSouth Tyrol, Italy, International Nature |
Apr 03, 2007 |
New book: the good alpine airA new publication in the series "Revue de géographie alpine/journal of alpine research" is devoted to the subject of the air in the Alps. The mountain air has played a major role in the history of the Alps since the end of the 18th century. |
NewsInternational Climate, People, Tourism & Leisure |
Apr 03, 2007 |