The Corporación Ambiental Empresarial (CAEM) organized the International Seminar on Environmental Risk Management on Friday 7 June 2019 in Bogotá, Colombia. CAEM presented to 328 participants from companies and municipal...

The results of the Mountain Partnership member survey are now available on the MP website, together with the report produced by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS).] The survey was carried...

The Association for Mountain Studies (CRYOSANABRIA) has organized the first training of a newly established Gaelic football team in the mountainous Sanabria region of northern Spain. The workshop was led...

The Mountain Partnership Steering Committee met on 26-27 March 2019 at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) headquarters in Rome, Italy. This was the third meeting...

The Chirripò National Park, established in 1975, is the first protected wildlife area in Costa Rica to implement a Non-Essential Services Concession (CSNE). Managed by the National System of Conservation...

The Mountain Partnership uses social media to promote, advocate and raise awareness about mountain issues all around the world. As well as shed light on mountain communities, that would not...

Submit your case studies for the publication “Agro-ecological and organic farming practices in mountain areas” (exact title TBD). In order to raise awareness about sustainable agricultural farming practices in mountain...

The Nilgiri Documentation Centre (NDC) Director, Dharmalingam Venugopal has advised the Governor of Tamil Nadu, Banwarilal Purohit to endorse a law to protect the mountains in the southern Indian state Tamil...

The International conference on “Mountains: Cultures, Landscapes and Biodiversity at Western Caspian University in Baku, Azerbaijan highlighted innovative solutions to problems that are increasingly threatening the world’s most impressive mountainous...

Mountain Partnership member, MiratecArts has launched an international mountain photography contest with the theme, “Mountains and Snow”. Finalists will be announced 11 December 2019 and will take part in an exhibition...

The Forest and Farm Facility is looking for apex regional (i.e. present in more than one country) and global forest and farm producers’ organizations, or consortia of such organizations, to...

The deadline for Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to apply for consultative status with the United Nations (UN) Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is approaching. Seventeen Mountain Partnership members currently have ECOSOC...

On 16 April 2019, the Networks of Centres of Excellence program announced that the Canadian Mountain Network (CMN) will receive $18.3 million in funding over five years (2019–2024). With this new...

Antoine Guisan at the University of Lausanne has launched several PhD and Post-Doc positions.  PhD position in Spatial Planning for Biodiversity Conservation To complete its team, the Institute of Earth Surface Dynamic...

Registration for Grow Summer School, “Agrobiodiversity in a Changing Climate” is now open. The summer school will take place from 18 - 26 September 2019 in Rome, Italy. Sustainable production practices...

Interview with Sejuti Sarkar De, Society for Natural Resource Management and Community Development (SNRMCD) 1. Could you give us a brief introduction to SNRMCD? SNRMCD is a NGO that has been working...

The representatives of twelve Mountain Partnership (MP) member organizations from Nepal, India, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Peru, Panama and Vietnam met in Ranikhet, at the foothills of the Indian Himalaya, for the...

Mountain Partnership member, the Hashoo Foundation (HF) in collaboration with Capital Development Authority (CDA) and Sunbeams School System organized a plantation drive, nature walk and clean-up operation in Islamabad, Pakistan...

Mountain Partnership member, the Civil Society Initiative of the University of Central Asia’s (UCA) Graduate School of Development organized a workshop on “Citizen Engagement with Open Government Data” from 27-30...

As a part of the inaugural national celebration of the Filipino Food Month, officially proclaimed by the President last year, the Department of Tourism Cordillera Administrative region (DoT CAR) and...