Alpine Schadenfreude

Alpine Convention

This is actually a picture of a salamander.

This is actually a limb injury in this salamander.

Alpine Camp 1945.

These changes in the alpine world are accelerating.

He lives in a small Alpine village in Austria.

In response to this request, the Office promoted an Alpine Carpathian partnership.

SIR C X SAR Experiment quot The High Alpine SAR Experiment quot .

The Global Information Research Initiative for Alpine Environments is establishing and maintaining a worldwide long term observation network in Alpine environments to document biodiversity and habitat changes and to assess risk.

In 2002, during the International Year of Mountains, the Alpine Carpathian partnership was initiated and launched by the Ministry of the Environment and Territory of Italy, then President of the Alpine Convention.

Another important contribution towards implementation has been made by the three networks that specifically refer to the Alpine Convention, namely the Alpine Network of Protected Areas, the Alliance in the Alps network of local authorities and the International Scientific Committee on Research in the Alps.

The entry into force of the Alpine Convention, however, gave hope that the achievement of that objective was nearer.

Alpine ecosystems, which boast the greatest degree of plant diversity in the world, are under increasing pressure from climate change.

A permanent secretariat for the Alpine Convention was set up in 2003 in Innsbruck (Austria), with an office in Bozen (Italy).

In this sense the support provided by the Alpine Convention and the single contracting parties is to be continued and intensified.

This red dot marks the Great Basin of North America, and I'm involved with an alpine biodiversity project there with some collaborators.

The Convention covers the entire Alpine region, which comprises some 190,000 square kilometres and is home to an estimated 13.2 million people.

The Alpine Network of Protected Areas has engaged in a partnership with the managers of mountain protected areas in the neighbouring Carpathians.

This red dot marks the Great Basin of North America, and I'm involved with an alpine biodiversity project there with some collaborators.

So here's a food web, or a map of feeding links between species that live in Alpine Lakes in the mountains of California.

With its integrative approach embracing ecological, economic and social aspects, the Alpine Convention has been a precursor for other mountain areas and conventions.

All of that, strip it away. In the world of the arctic and alpine environments, where the ice is, it's real and it's present.

Welcoming, the various regional and subregional initiatives and international instruments, such as the Alpine Convention, which provide frameworks for international cooperation for the protection of mountain environments,

It is an initiative of the Istituto di Ricerca per l'Ecologia e l'Economia Applicate alle Aree Alpine, the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, the University of Pavia and the Turin Polytechnic.

Transboundary collaboration on mountains between Austria, Switzerland, Germany, France, Liechtenstein, Italy, Monaco, Slovenia and the European Community is defined by the Alpine Convention, the first international convention to encompass such an extensive land mass.

The event was sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund and UNEP, in cooperation with the European Academy of Bozen, the International Scientific Committee for Alpine Research, the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps and other key partners.

Europeans are buying gemütliche Alpine ski chalets, glamorous condominiums with Mediterranean views in the South of Spain, and, increasingly, villas in picturesque sites in Turkey, Hungary, and Croatia. Australians are buying oceanfront properties at the Sunshine Coast and the Whitsundays.

A poster shows three white sheep kicking a black sheep off the Swiss flag. And images of junkies and Muslim women in headscarves are contrasted in a promotional movie with idyllic pictures of Alpine scenery and efficient banks the People s Party s Switzerland.

Within these experiments a method was developed for generating digital snow cover maps in mountain areas based on multi temporal SAR data, and the usefulness of ERS 1 SAR derived snow cover maps for runoff modelling in alpine drainage basins was demonstrated.

The fifth Special Olympics World Winter Games in Salzburg, Austria, 20 27 March 1993 2,000 mentally handicapped athletes from 80 countries participated in these Games which included the following sports alpine skiing, cross country skiing, figure skating, floor hockey and speed skating.

NAIROBI If you happen to be a salamander known as the Iranian Kaiser spotted newt, chances are that things may be looking up. Governments at the recent meeting in Doha of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) voted for a trade ban on Iranian Kaisers, alongside tougher protection for a host of land living creatures.

France is particularly sensitive to the need to preserve and develop mountain regions, but these efforts can be effective only if they take place within an international framework. Hence, my country, for example, concluded the International Convention for the Protection of the Alps (Alpine Convention) with its neighbours.

Moreover, after his career is over, he is unlikely to become a manager of his sport like Jean Claude Killy, the former Alpine skier who was co president of the 1992 winter Olympics, or his fellow football legend Michel Platini, who helped coordinate the 1998 World Cup. After all, Zidane, arguably the world s best football player, left with a gesture that has no place in any game.