An “Energy Café” has opened in the remote village of Nisur, located in the upper part of the Bartang Valley, in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan. The Café will provide...

The side event “Practitioner’s Lab on community-based conservation in the Central Tien Shan for the protection of snow leopards and their prey species” took place in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on 24...

The International Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Forum, a high-level event on the conservation of the endangered snow leopard hosted by the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, Mr Almazbek Atambayev, opens...

Dr Janet Colvin, Interim Associate Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Utah Valley University (UVU), discussed cooperation between the state of Utah, United States, and Kyrgyzstan, with a...

Renewable energy is the future of Argentina, said the National Committee for the Sustainable Development of Mountain Regions of Argentina. President of Argentina Mauricio Macri has promoted the strengthening of...

Your case studies are invited for the fact sheets currently being created by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) for...

The seventh edition of “African Mountains’ Echo: the Voice for Sustainable Mountain Development in Africa”, produced by the Albertine Rift Conservation Society (ARCOS) in collaboration with the Africa Mountains Regional...

The Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) is especially grateful for the support of its volunteers and interns, including Diego Laurenti Sellers, whose internship ends in August 2017. Diego is from Rome,...

Over 2 000 kilograms of Jumla’s Mixed Beans, a product involved in the Mountain Partnership Products Initiative, have been sold at BhatBhateni supermarkets in Nepal. Jumla’s Mixed Beans are a...

The latest edition of “eco.mont – Journal of protected mountain areas research and management” is now available online and in print. The papers in the July 2017 issue draw readers’...

‘A Sense of Italy for the Future’ was the theme of the 2017 Soft Economy Festival held in Treia, Italy. During the festival, an International Workshop on Mediterranean Mountains took...

The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and its UNWTO.Themis Foundation are offering one scholarship to officials from UNWTO Member States and one scholarship to graduates from UNWTO.TedQual certified programmes for the...

Chivay, a tourism hub and the provincial capital of the Colca Valley in Peru, is situated at approximately 3 600 metres (m) above sea level. With around 7 000 inhabitants,...

Your case studies are invited for a publication on migration trends in mountains. The publication, being produced by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) and the Centre for Development and Environment...

Two examples of increasing the resilience of mountain communities in Panama to disaster, written by Mountain Partnership member Fundación CoMunidad’s director, Alberto Pascual, have been published in the United Nations...

The Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) reflects on its key achievements in promoting sustainable mountain development last year in its 2016 annual report. Titled “Stepping up for mountains: Mountain Partnership Secretariat...

Bogotá, Colombia hosted a week dedicated to mountains. From 10 to 14 July 2017, Mountains’ Week offered a space to discuss the strategic importance of paramos and mountain ecosystems in...

Restored and newly established forest belts, rehabilitated pasture infrastructures, among which are mobile paddocks with equipped solar power systems – these are some of the achievements of the Clima East...

The Centre for Environmental Education (CEE Himalaya) actively raises awareness about the international days that are observed by the United Nations. In the months of May and June 2017, CEE...

The Alliance of Central Asian Mountain Communities (AGOCA) convened an annual meeting that brought together 15 members for three days of intensive exchange about the progress accomplished on projects and the...