Identification of global priorities for new mountain protected and conserved areasnewsThe International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) Mountains Specialist Group has developed a paper on Identification of Global Priorities for New Mountain Protected and Conserved Areas. This mountain project aims to identify inadequately protected mountain areas and prioritize their importance for protection...
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Members’ voices: Mathew John, Last ForestnewsLast Forest is a social enterprise pioneering sustainable living choices by connecting communities to markets. We promote eco-friendly, thoughtful and meaningful products made by indigenous communities in the mountains of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in South India. Indigenous communities represent 8.6 percent of the population of India. They are the...
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Apply for GROW Summer School 2021newsThe 2021 GROW Summer School "Agrobiodiversity in a Changing Climate" is now accepting applications. The summer school will be held online from 14 to 24 September 2021. One of the world’s greatest challenges is to secure access for all to adequate supplies of food that are healthy, safe and high quality,...
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Standard for biodiversity management open for public consultationnewsProClima and South Pole are joining forces to provide tools for biodiversity management that will be applicable to the conservation of mountain ecosystems. They invite Mountain Partnership members to participate in the public consultation of their “Standard for the certification and registration of biodiversity conservation initiatives: Nature-based solutions for...
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MP's dialogue highlights sustainable food systems in mountainspeak to peakThe June 2021 issue of Peak to Peak highlights the outcomes of the Mountain Partnership's Independent Dialogue on mountains an sustainable food systems, organized to inform the first-ever UN Food Systems Summit. Members' Voices features a Mountain Partnership Products producer story on Mermelada de Arándano from Peru. Top news stories cover a... Download » |
A wild Andean blueberry boosts livelihoods in PerunewsThe Callejón de Conchucos is a set of valleys located above 3 000 metres running along the eastern slope of the Cordillera Blanca in Ancash, Peru. Remote villages and archaeological sites abound here between breathtaking mountainous views. It is here, high in the Andes, that a wild variety of blueberry, Vaccinium...
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