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...
The Canadian Mountain Network (CMN) is seeking an Executive Director to provide operational leadership, direction and oversight for the organization, as well as support the collaborative development of network strategy...
To build the capacities of future leaders, the Grassroots Institute has announced a ten-day international summer field school on mountain ecosystems and resource management to take place on 11-20 August...
A team of 12 activists, volunteers, professionals and researchers will travel from the Italian glacier of Marmolada to Uelen in Siberia, before reaching the Bering Strait to document the effects...
Mountain Partnership member Fundación CoMunidad, together with the Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí, Centro Regional Universitario de Tierras Altas (CRUTA) and Drindod Studios, announces a new call for "Stories from the...
Bayarmagnai Batsuuri lives with his wife and two children in the mountains of central Mongolia. The Batsuuri family resides in the Erdenebulgan district of the Arkhangai province: a herder's paradise, with...
More than 100 local government representatives, experts on disaster risk reduction and civil society organization members participated in a virtual dialogue on the resilient development of Karnali Province, Nepal.
In observance...
Mountain Research and Development (MRD) invites papers that address transformations affecting pastoralism and rangelands in mountains and in high-elevation landscapes, their interactions with other systems, and the solutions local communities,...
The Pre-Expo Dubai programme series highlights the Mountain Partnership Products (MPP) Initiative during Climate and Biodiversity Week.
Selected as one of 25 Best Practices out of 1 175 from around the...
A panel of seven youth mountain champions from around the world addressed sustainable mountain development and biodiversity conservation during a web dialogue organised by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS). Each...
Friends and partners of the Living Chapel recently engaged in their first ever worldwide planting event. The event encouraged the establishment of new Laudato Si’ gardens, the strengthening of existing...
