Japan celebrates the first-ever Mountain DaynewsJapan celebrates its newest national holiday “Yama no Hi”, or Mountain Day, for the first time today, 11 August 2016. The holiday has been introduced for the purpose of celebrating a day which offers people the opportunity to come close to mountains and appreciate their benefits. On this day, the...
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Environmental calendar drawn up in ArgentinanewsAn environmental calendar was created in the first half of 2016, with the support of CONICET, in Santa Catalina, a town situated in the high elevations of the Argentinian province of Jujuy. The result of intercultural efforts, the calendar was requested by various communities who wanted to record their local...
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Partnerships boosting mountain businessesnewsThe habitat offered by the Monti Sibillini National Park, Central Italy, suits the wild boar so well, there comes a point when wild boars are too prolific, and as part of the Park’s conservation work, a studied and controlled cull is agreed. Mountain writer Tamara Griffiths spoke with Amedeo Tuccini, who...
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Call for case studies on mountain culturepeak to peakIssue 95 – Month 8 – Year 2016 The August issue of Peak to Peak calls for case studies on mountain culture for International Mountain Day (IMD) communication materials. The newsletter continues with stories about a mountain apricot community in the Kyrgyz Republic, a call... Download » |
A Kyrgyz mountain water legendnewsThough the province of Batken in Kyrgyzstan is located south of the Fergana Valley, a very fertile part of Central Asia, it can hardly be called a ‘place of heaven’. The landscape is flat with a lack of vegetation, surrounded by rocky mountains. Arid climate and scarcity of water resources...
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Promoting the mountain agenda at the UNnewsMountain Partnership (MP) members, with support from the MP Secretariat, campaigned for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals in mountain areas, ahead of and during the United Nations High-level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development on 18-20 July in New York, USA. The HLPF, organized under the auspices of the Economic and...
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