Journal

Feature Articles:
* FAO Announces International Year of Mountains in 2002
* Melting of Earth’s Ice Cover Reaches New High
* Special Letter from the Chairman of the Board: Mountain Forum
* Mountains and Forests at the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development
* Mountain Geomorphology and Environments Courses in Higher Education

Regional Updates:...

Feature Articles:
* FAO Mountain Program
* International Day of Mountains: Discussion Highlights
* Mountains and Global Climate Change
* First MF Council Meeting Scheduled
* MF Conference on the Huemul

Regional Updates:
* Africa
* Asia Pacific
* Europe
* Latin America
* North America
* Global

What’s New
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This issue contains excerpts from postings to the numerous Mountain Forum email discussion lists over the past six months. The feature article and numerous others were from the focused e-conference on Community Based Mountain Tourism. The Asia/Pacific section features a series of postings on the common theme of snow leopard predation and livestock compensation.

It was a pilot issue of the Mountain Forum Bulletin. The purpose of this bulletin was to facilitate information exchange with members of the Mountain Forum who do not have access to e-mail or to the internet. While we have been surprised and encouraged by how many remote mountain areas are beginning to acquire e-mail access, there are still only a tiny fraction of mountain communities who have...