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Federal Institute for Less-Favoured and Mountainous Areas
The Federal Institute for Less-Favoured and Mountainous Areas (Bundesanstalt fuer Bergbauernfragen) founded in 1979, is a research unit affiliated with the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Environment and Watermanagement. The main focus of its work is on basic research and the asessment of applied measures concerning agricultural policies, rural and mountain development, regional...
Initiative Transports Europe
ITE (Initiative Transports Europe) is a federation of organisations that work towards sustainable transport, in particular in sensitive mountain regions. Its main aims are to improve the international information flow and to create political pressure for its goals. It publishes a bi-monthly newsletter and holds an annual conference and an annual action day.
Alpine Network of Protected Areas

Cooperation network of protected areas within the Alpine Convention; promotion of cooperation in different fields: nature protection, tourist development, regional development, communication and education about protected areas in the Alps; research about special topics belonging to the mountain protected areas; expositions; study travel; and application of Alpine Convention.

Centre de Recherches sur les Ecosystemes d'Altitude
The objectives are to developp biological researches about alpine ecosystems and to perform educational activities for the public.
geoSYS
This company for applied information technology was founded as a service company for geoinformation. Since 1999 we have realized various services at first hand: consulting, projecting, development, distribution, and maintenance of software and different solutions within the range of spatial information technologies and project- and product-oriented system development focused mainly on...
World Mountain People Association
The work of the WMPA is motivated by three major objectives: - to make mountains understood in an international arena and at the level of each country and continent - to organise North-South and South-South exchange and co-operation between mountain territories and populations, in order to share knowledge, means and experiences - to support and develop the local initiatives of the association’s...
International Friends of Nature
International Friends of Nature was founded in 1895 with the aims of nature protection and social rights for teh workers movement. It is now an worldwide active organiation mainly working in the fields of Sustainable Development, Regional Development and tourism.
Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment
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.
Lliga per a la Defensa del Patrimoni Natural
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...
Action for Nature

Is a non-profit international association to support, encourage and promote the protection of biodiversity and natural ecosystems; to promote and support sustainable development; to facilitate learning, education and awareness in favour of the environment; to promote the knowledge of nature and research; and to promote and support the conservation of the cultural heritage.

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