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Tianshan mountains in China become World Heritage Site
21/06/2013
The Xinjiang Tianshan mountain range in China has been declared a natural World Heritage Site at a World Heritage Committee meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.Mountain Partnership member the International Union...
Kenya Forest Service wins award for montane forest project
18/06/2013
The Kenya Forest Service has won a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) award for its implementation of a sustainable livelihood development project in the country's largest montane forest.The service received...
Call for abstracts on water cooperation
11/06/2013
Organizers of the High Level International Conference on Water Cooperation that will take place 20-22 August in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, are calling for abstracts.Scholars from across the world are invited to...
GLORIA Andes Network meets in Quito
10/06/2013
The Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments (GLORIA) Andes Network met in Quito, Ecuador, in May to add new monitoring sites to GLORIA’s global database. The purpose of GLORIA is...
Call for posters for High Summit 2013 Conference
06/06/2013
The Ev-K2-CNR Committee has issued a call for posters from young researchers and students for its High Summit 2013 International Conference on Mountains and Climate Change taking place in Lecco,...
Mountain Partnership sponsors Scientific Journalism Seminar on high mountains
04/06/2013
More than 300 journalists, government officials, environmental researchers and students came together for the Seventh Scientific Journalism Seminar in Loja, Ecuador, 16-17 May, organized by the Foundation for Integration and...
First regional workshop for Andes technical cooperation project
30/05/2013
Government representatives from six Andean countries met in Quito, Ecuador in May for the first workshop of the regional technical cooperation project “Fortalecimiento de la gestión participativa para el desarrollo...
Project aims to alleviate poverty in Moroccan mountains
27/05/2013
A project by the Moroccan government and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to develop agricultural commodities in the mountain areas of Al Haouz, Morocco, is moving into its...
Applications open for Rolex Awards for Enterprise
20/05/2013
Applications are open for the Rolex Awards for Enterprise, which are given for new or ongoing projects anywhere in the world that deserve support for their capacity to improve lives...
Preregistration open for Central Asian Mountain Program Forum 2013
16/05/2013
Preregistration is now open for the Central Asian Mountain Program (CAMP) Forum, which will take place 27-29 August this year in Kalmak Ashu village, Chuy Oblast, Kyrgyzstan. The topic of...
VIDEO: The Mountain Institute's Director-General discusses mountains and climate change
09/05/2013
The director-general of the Mountain Institute, Andrew Taber, has given a video interview about the work of the Institute and the mountain agenda. Taber discusses working to alleviate climate change and...
Scholarship available for online MSc in Sustainable Mountain Development
02/05/2013
A scholarship towards the costs of participating in a part-time online MSc Sustainable Mountain Development offered by the University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland, is available for one student...
Sustainable tourism strategy for the Carpathian Mountains in development
26/04/2013
The development of a strategy focusing on sustainable tourism development is under way in the countries of the Carpathian Mountains – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and...
Kyrgyz Republic mountain forest project pilot sites discussed
24/04/2013
Kyrgyz Republic-based Mountain Partnership members met with national consultants working on a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)/Global Environment Facility (GEF) project on sustainable mountain forest management in Bishkek on 5...
Online MSc in sustainable mountain development
22/04/2013
Places are available for the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) MSc in Sustainable Mountain Development, an online, part-time interdisciplinary degree addressing social, environmental, economic, and professional development issues...
ICIMOD launches Water and Life photo competition
19/04/2013
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is organizing a digital photo contest on the theme of 'Water and Life' to celebrate its 30th anniversary, coinciding with the United...
Andean wetland research project launched in Bolivia
15/04/2013
The Bolivian Mountain Institute (BMI) is participating in BIO-THAW, an international project to model biodiversity and land use interactions under changing glacial water availability in the tropical high Andean wetlands of...
Kindergartens and greenhouses in Kyrgyzstan
12/04/2013
The Public Foundation Mountain Societies Development Support Programme (MSDSP KG) is working on two projects in Kyrgyzstan. The first has opened 18 community-based kindergartens in villages of Osh province to support...
ICIMOD and SKODA team up for Nepal air quality
10/04/2013
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the ŠKODA Division of MAW Enterprises Private Limited have entered into a partnership to improve air quality in Nepal and raise...
Soluciones Prácticas creates online camelid farming portal
08/04/2013
Soluciones Prácticas has created the largest digital repository of information on camelid farming in Latin America - a sector that involves more than 150,000 families in Peru and Bolivia. Currently the...