Organizations
CIPRA, the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps, was founded in 1952. CIPRA is a non-governmental umbrella organization headquartered in Schaan, Liechtenstein. There are seven national CIPRA branches in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Slovenia, and Switzerland as well as the South Tyrol regional branch, all of which represent over 100 member organizations.
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To promote, advocating by news, the cause of Mountain's Environment, Creating awareness for Clean living of Waste dumping, Wildlife protection and wisely utilizing the treasure of Wildlife, and Sustain it, to promote Tourism of the Mountain Region, for the development of Community, at large.
Mountain Magazine documents local lifestyles and currently has an Internet presence which will soon expand to a half-hour public television program.
Black Sheep Inn is a small rural award winning Ecolodge high in the Ecuadorian Andes. Black Sheep Inn works closely with the local community and provides support for educational projects.
ALDEIA is a Nature Conservation and Rural Sustainable Development non-governmental organization.
The Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA) is a cross-cutting research network of DIVERSITAS with the task to explore and explain the great biological richness of the mountains of the world. GMBA synthesizes the often hidden and fragmented results of research on mountain biodiversity and advocates studies on the human influence on natural and cultural landscapes in the mountains.
ICEPH is a non-governmental technical and professional team engaged in designing, drawing up and carrying out projects aimed at improving the life quality and habitat conditions of popular sectors with the overall goal of strengthening the civil society and the applicability of social rights.
Its central office is in Bariloche, in the Argentine Patagonia.
Since its foundation (1986) ICEPH has...
Le CIAPP, réseau des ONG sur les 3 états pyrénéens pour la protection et le développement durable du massif, co-organisateur de la Consultation des ONG (Toulouse, juillet 1996) qui a abouti aux
DEPANA is an NGO, with no profit motive, which was declared to be of public benefit and which has dedicated its work to the study and the protection of the natural heritage since 1976, the year in which it was founded by a group of scientists, naturalists, scholars, and others, who, in view of the ever increasing environmental degradation of our planet and of the damages inflicted on the natural...
The global mountain program aims to bring together the resources of the CGIAR and partners to conduct research to support sustainable mountain development as stated in Agenda 21 Chapter 14. The strength is to link capacity of the CGIAR to support chapter 13 on agriculture with those of commitments to chapter 14. The program supports inter-center research in thematic actions areas:
1. Rural-Urban...