conservation
Mountain communities are amongst those marginalized groups whose destinies are mostly decided by an influential tribe of resourceful institutions/persons who often represent diverse interest groups. Be it in the name of conservation or tourism, we always find ourselves the last party to decide our own destinies. Perhaps it is because we live in a land of abundant resources and...
The process of establishing Scotland's second National Park, the Cairngorms National Park, is well underway. On the 29th May 2002, the Draft Designation Order was published outlining the boundary, powers and functions for public consultation. Preceding this, Scottish Natural Heritage had, as the Government's natural heritage adviser, carried out a consultation exercise on the initial...
To the Kogi Indians of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in Colombia, the Sierra is 'the heart of the world'. One man is at the centre of effort to restore that heart to good health.
The Kogi Indians believe the Sierra moves between good and evil, between day and night, between south and north, searching for equilibrium, says Juan Mayr, founder and director of the...
Mountain forest provides to society multiple functions which are increasingly of public utility. It contributes to the protection of soils, of habitats and infrastructures. Beyond its direct economic role in the production of wood and the indirect one in the support of rural activities (grazing), tourism and recreation (including hunting), it is a basic element of the mountain natural heritage...
In Portugal, the mountain areas have an important expression, occupying about 30% of the continental part of the territory (Ferreira and Ventura, 1999). These areas, due to their physical characteristics and ways of life, mostly relying on agriculture and forestry production, were marginalized, have been repelling population, and tend to be vulnerable, in economic, social, cultural,...
Scotland's mountains are very distinctive. They may not be as extensive or as high as other mountain ranges but the combination of oceanic climate and human influences have created an environment not found anywhere else in the world.
The Cairngorm Mountains were chosen as the most appropriate study area for the purpose of this report. It is one of the...
One of the last truly wild places in Guatemala is a two-mile-tall, 30-mile-wide, east-west mountain range that runs for roughly 100 miles through the country's southeast highlands. The mountains encompass parts of the Baja Verapaz and Izabal departments, beginning about 50 air miles east of Guatemala City.
Saving the ecologically dynamic wilderness of the rugged Sierra de las...
This contribution aims at providing representatives and participants in the Third Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe, Lisbon, 2-4 June, 1998, with some basic facts and figures concerning mountain forest in Europe. It makes no pretence to be comprehensive but provides a discussion snapshot open to further developments, participations and partnerships. ...
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