News and photo by the Feminist Hiking Collective A group of mountain women from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Germany, Italy, Kenya, Nepal, Tanzania and the United Kingdom are gathering to climb the...

The governing body of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Member States of the Commonwealth of Independent States (IPA CIS) adopted a model law that aims at supporting the sustainable development...

The Albertine Rift Conservation Society (ARCOS), a member of the Mountain Partnership, is building the capacities of students, parents and teachers in Rwanda to enhance climate change resilience in schools...

A Reinhold Messner Foundation project aims at improving the sustainability of mountain tourism by bringing renewable solar energy to a museum, hospital and two schools in the Mount Everest region....

The Government of Argentina announces the official ratification of the Committee for the Sustainable Development of the Mountain Regions of the Argentine Republic. Established in 2005, a set of public sector...

The Mountain Institute (TMI) is concluding its role as a nonprofit organization based in the United States of America after nearly 50 years of protecting critical mountain ecosystems and promoting...

Calling all members of the Mountain Partnership, the Mountain Partnership Secretariat is compiling inputs for its 2020 Annual Report. Each year, the Secretariat dedicates part of its annual report to putting...

Governments and organizations in Europe conducted webinars, hikes, literature festivals and more to mark International Mountain Day (IMD) 2020 in Albania, Cyprus, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey...

North and Central America, the Caribbean and South America marked International Mountain Day (IMD) in 2020 through various events in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Peru, the United States of...

In Asia and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), International Mountain Day (IMD) 2020 was widely celebrated by many organizations throughout the regions. Events were held in Algeria, India,...

Governments and organizations throughout Sub-Saharan Africa honoured International Mountain Day (IMD) 2020. Mountain lovers in Guinea, Kenya and Rwanda celebrated the day with outdoor activities, like hiking and tree planting,...

From online webinars and virtual book presentations, to physically distanced hikes and outdoor events, the message that mountains matter was spread far and wide around the world on 11 December....

Nepalese trail and sky runner Mira Rai was today appointed a Mountain Partnership Goodwill Ambassador as people across the world celebrate International Mountain Day. The Mountain Partnership is a United Nations...

Mountains host about half of the global biodiversity hotspots and are home to a growing number of the world's hungriest people, according to a new study launched by the Food...

The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) has launched the second call for proposals under the IKI Small Grants programme with funds from the International...

Mountain Partnership member Active Remedy Ltd. has recently become signatories in the 2020 Edinburgh Declaration on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF). The 2020 Edinburgh Declaration sets out the aspirations and...

'Mountain biodiversity matters' is the theme of the high-level virtual event that the Mountain Partnership Secretariat at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will organize in...

The newly appointed Director General of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Dr Pema Gyamtsho, has taken up his role, beginning his tenure as part of a major...

When we think of mountains, we think of adventure, natural beauty, a pleasant climate and peace. Its only when we dig deeper, we begin to understand the lived realities and...

Mountain Partnership member Balipara Foundation is pleased to announce the 8th Eastern Himalayan Naturenomics™ Forum 2020 "Ecology is Economy" will take place on 1–5 December virtually across 12 Eastern Himalayan...