The Mountains Biome Blog
Ideas, information, issues, and alerts from the IUCN-WCPA Mountains Biome
Potential Mining Threat to New Zealand Protected Areas
Linda McMillan
Our WCPA Mountain Biome’s team is reacting to potential mining activities in Mount Aspiring National Park and other NZ protected areas. Correspondence has been sent to the New Zealand Prime Minister and others...
K2's glacier comes clean
The Italian NGO Ev-K2-CNR is famous for studying and protecting the world's highest alpine environments. This year they accomplished a massive "clean up" of the Baltoro Glacier at the base of K2 in Pakistan. Here you can read their report (in Italian). plus an English translation of the report, courtesy of Sara Sottocornola of Montagna.org...
Clarifying Connectivity
Dr. Graeme Worboys has alerted us that our Mountains Protected Areas Network member Gary Tabor -- Director of the Center for Large Landscape Conservation in Bozeman, Montana -- has co-authored a terminology guide and very informative article about landscape fragmentation and connectivity conservation in the July/August 2009 newsletter for Landscope America: Clarifying the Terminology and Connectivity 101
Important new publication on Mountain Biodiversity and Climate Change
An important new public interest book relating to linking landscapes, transboundary connectivity conservation, and climate change is now available in hard copy and online from ICIMOD (International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development). This valuable and visually-stunning book, Mountain Biodiversity and Climate Change, was developed from the presentations and other contributions made at the International Mountain Biodiversity Conference in November 2008 at the ICIMOD headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal. Several of our Mountains Biome Network members attended the conference and contributed material for this book.
MOUNTAINS BIOME SYMPOSIUM AT WILD9 - Large Landscape, Connectivity Conservation and Climate Change
Invitation from Harvey Locke, Mountains Biome Network -- Please join the IUCN Mountains Biome team for a 3-day symposium "Large Landscape, Connectivity Conservation and Climate Change" November 10-12, 2009 as part of the ninth World Wilderness Congress (http://wild9.org) in Merida, Mexico...