Policy makers, experts and practitioners from Asia and Latin America met to discuss the challenges and available tools for managing air quality in mountainous cities at a session held on...

The first edition of the ALPS International Mountain Film Festival is going on now in Temù, Lombardy, Italy. The festival presents an opportunity for diverse audiences of mountains lovers to...

Of the 163 countries that submitted national climate change plans to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), 48 referred to mountains. Prior to their 21st session which...

This year the World Conservation Congress, hosted by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), will feature a number of events that address mountains on 1-10 September in...

Migrations & Développement started a project to train a network of farmers in southern Morocco in the ways of agro-ecology. To resolve two of the challenges that farmers in rural areas...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Government of Kyrgyzstan and the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection (GSLEP) Secretariat are planning a high-level panel event and the launch of...

The following account comes directly from a mountaineer and is courtesy of Husseyn (Gusseyn) Bagirov, Minister of Environment in Azerbaijan and President of ADEINFA (Air and Extreme Sports Federations Association),...

More than 50 oil-on-canvas paintings depicting the mountains of Pakistan were put on display at the Islamabad Art and Craft Village on 14 August 2016 to mark the Pakistan Independence...

HI-AWARE – a research programme on adaptation, water and resilience in glacier and snowpack dependent river basins of the region – brought together policy makers and practitioners from Nepal for...

The Bhuvaneshwar Declaration addresses the ecology and status of the Eastern Ghats, a discontinuous range of mountains along the east coast of peninsular India. It was written by participants of...

The National Mountain Committee of Argentina has issued the 12th edition of its newsletter, which outlines progress made on the Telefood project. Two aspects of the project came to an...

The felted handicrafts that come from the Kyrgyz Republic are still just being discovered by the European and American markets. Kyrgyz artisans are the “master felt makers” of the world....

If your organization is looking for resources to fund a programme or project on sustainable mountain development, follow these tips to navigate the Mountain Partnership’s (MP) online funding database. The...

Japan 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...

The National Coordination Board in support of the Italian Delegation to the Alpine Convention met in Turin, Italy, at the Museo Nazionale della Montagna on 20 July 2016. Paolo Angelini, the head...

An 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...

Migration and depopulation, perspectives of traditional crafts, climate change and health are some of the topics that will be discussed during the AlpWeek 2016. Organized by the main Alpine organizations,...

The 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...

Aerial counts of elephants in forest environments are ineffective due to the obstruction of tree canopies. Therefore, an ambitious elephant dung survey was carried out on foot along line transects....

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is pleased to announce a story grant opportunity and invites applications from interested Nepali journalists to apply for the ICIMOD Small Story Grant...