The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Forestry Division is seeking a Chief Technical Advisor for a Global Environment Facility (GEF) co-funded project in Iran on “Rehabilitation...

The European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA) invites applications from organizations for grants up to 30 000 euros to support conservation projects that protect threatened species or habitat in any country...

Water, in light of changing climate, growing populations and increasing pressures from conflicting users, has become a popular topic. The release in April 2015 of two major reports, ‘Towards a...

Rob Blair, founding member of Mountain Studies Institute and Mountain Partnership alternate focal point, passed away on 27 February 2015 at the age of 71. His colleagues remember him as...

The International Scientific Committee on Research in the Alps (ISCAR) and partners are organizing a two-day international workshop on 25 June 2015 on the role and issues of scientific councils of mountain...

Animals and plants have to migrate in order to reproduce. That involves crossing land that is also used by human beings. In its 2014 Annual Report, the International Commission for...

The impact of climate change has been documented in the Himalayan region in terms of increase in annual temperatures as well as the shift in rainfall patterns and decrease in...

The International Programme on Research and Training on Sustainable Management of Mountain Areas, better known as IPROMO, will focus on food security in mountain areas from 23 June to 3...

Utah International Mountain Forum (UIMF), a coalition of student clubs at Utah Valley University (UVU) hosted the celebration of the International Women’s Day on March 9, 2015. As a part...

World Water Day provides us an opportunity to join our friends and colleagues from the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region and the rest of the world in creating awareness about...

The Central Himalayan Environment Association (CHEA) in partnership with Climate Development and Knowledge Network (CDKN), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Government of Uttarakhand organized an outreach event in...

Entitled “Quality from the mountains – Prosperity for people and territories”, the IXth European Mountain Convention took place in Bilbao, Spain, on 22–24 October 2014, organized by Euromontana (European Association...

Dr Bibiana Vilá, the Mountain Partnership focal point of Argentinean environmental conservation group, VICAM: Vicuñas, Camélidos y Ambiente, was featured in a Japanese television program among the winners of the...

  The Bhutan Ecological Society would like to invite all interested national and international scientists and practitioners to submit their manuscripts to bhutanecological@gmail.com, for consideration for publication in the 2015 issue of Proceedings of..

The second research mission of the Museo Nazionale della Montagna (the National Mountain Museum) to Bolivia is underway. This time its journey is focused on the centre west area, in...

The Mountain Partnership Steering Committee (SC) met at FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy, on 17 -18 February. This was the first formal meeting of the SC that was established and...

Climate change, especially visible in mountain ecosystems, is causing glaciers to disappear at an alarming rate, threatening millions of lives dependent on freshwater resources originating from the mountains in Peru. A...

As part of its commitment to the Mountain Partnership (MP), Madagascar has developed a reference document that aims to align the sustainable development of mountain areas with the environmental guidelines...

  The Aigine Cultural Research Center together with the Manas epic chanters, Kubanychbek Almabekov and Samat Kochorbaev, represented Kyrgyz culture at the Fifth International Conference of Elders of the World’s Ancient Cultures and...

On 22-23 January 2015, a workshop on "Establishment of a guest house" was held in Kurmety Village, Kazakhstan (in the Raimbek district of the Almaty region, the buffer zone of...