Nature does not stop at the boundaries of protected areas or national borders. And, more and more often, man’s interventions in nature and the landscape are dissecting habitats and lastingly obstructing the exchange and migration of fauna and flora. This is putting Europe’s unique biodiversity in the Alps at risk.
A remedy is now being sought in the form of an ecological integrated network across the entire Alps and beyond. To this end, a large-scale project is being prepared by CIPRA, ALPARC, ISCAR and the WWF. Initial activities include compiling a catalogue of measures, selecting pilot regions for the exemplary implementation of those measures, and identifying all the connections of relevance to an alpine-wide ecological network.
Within the framework of the Alpine Convention’s newly established “ecological network” platform the project partners are working closely with the Alpine states. The Swiss MAVA Foundation for Nature Conservation is financing the preliminary project, which is scheduled to run until the end of 2008.

Contact: CIPRA International, Aurelia Ullrich, +423 237 40 33, Contact