In the Memorandum the states participating in the Project, i.e. Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Slovenia, and the observer states Bulgaria, Greece, Slovakia and Liechtenstein, call for a common mountain forest policy in the Alpine region and in the mountain areas of Europe that are located outside the Alps. The objective aimed at by the signatory states includes setting up a European mountain forest platform and a European mountain forest campaign, and creating a European financing instrument. Within the context of forestry planting strategies greater consideration is also to be given to altered conditions resulting from climate change.
The Memorandum is based on the results of the Interreg Project, which examined the state of mountain forests and illustrated the many different functions performed by mountain forests.
Source, information and to download the final declaration: www.bafu.admin.ch/wald/01256/05491/index (de)