Hundreds of people gathered at the Colosseum in Rome, Italy on 8 November for the March for the Earth. Earth Day Italia Onlus, with support from the international Earth Day...

Ama Dablam is not just a Himalayan peak - in the Khumbu valley it is part of one of the most beautiful mountain ranges on the planet. Strategically located halfway...

Mountain products and services can greatly increase mountain livelihoods. Though mountain agriculture cannot compete with the prices and volumes of lowland production, it can concentrate on high value, high quality...

The Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) and Global Island Partnership (GLISPA) jointly organized a panel discussion, “Promoting Innovation While Ensuring Environmental Sustainability in Islands and Mountain regions”, chaired by the Italian...

The situation of wisent (European Bison – Bison bonasus), the largest terrestrial mammal on the continent, is far from secure. After centuries of habitat loss and degradation and severe poaching...

The current draft of the international climate change agreement has a proposed mention of mountains, which the petition being circulated by the Mountain Partnership (MP) aims to retain in the...

Since 2015 is the year of Sustainable Development and the United Nations Sustainable Development goals (UN SDG) have now been launched, the topic of sustainable development has been much explored...

Nepal-based project KTK-BELT (in full ‘Koshi Tappu Kanchenjunga Biodiversity Education Livelihood Tera Studio') has been confirmed as the third winner of the UIAA Mountain Protection Award (MPA).Created in 2013 as a response to...

The Mountain Partnership Steering Committee met in Turin, at the Palazzo dal Pozzo della Cisterna, on 14-15 October 2015.  This was the second formal meeting of the Steering Committee (SC)...

Partnerships play a key role in overcoming hunger and ensuring resilient livelihoods through promoting the sustainable management of mountains in the dryland areas. Speakers at a 20 October 2015 side...

Snow leopard enthusiasts around the world celebrate the second annual International Snow Leopard Day on 23 October to raise awareness about the endangered species. Threats to the elusive mountain feline...

The  Permanent Secretariat of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA), Central American Coordination Centre for Natural Disaster Prevention (CEPREDENAC) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction ...

On 25 April 2015, a devastating earthquake stuck Nepal resulting in 9 000 deaths and injuring thousands across the country. The earthquake and its subsequent aftershocks  affected around eight million...

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), an inter-governmental knowledge organization, is currently looking for qualified candidates to fill the position of Governance Specialist in the livelihood thematic area....

The Mountain Partnership Steering Committee (SC) meeting will take place in Turin, Italy on 14-15 October 2015. The second meeting of the Steering Committee in 2015 will focus on the...

On 25 September 2015, 193 Member States of the United Nations (UN) adopted the new international sustainable development agenda, which includes mountain - related targets as part of the world...

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is recruiting Communication Officers - Project staff (two positions)  and the detailed job descriptions can be found on their website.ICIMOD is a regional...

The Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Hydrological Programme (IHP) are organizing an exhibition on the impacts of...

Water issues in Latin America are the focus of 3 papers in this Open Issue. One shows how water privatization in Chile has dispossessed indigenous people of their water rights,...

In December, Paris will host the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an event gathering around 40 000 participants,...