The European Parliament today adopted its report on the European Water Resilience Strategy recognising the essential role of mountain areas and point out that “mountains are real water towers and important freshwater reservoirs in Europe, the Alps alone providing 40 % of Europe’s fresh water”.
With a view to better remunerating mountain farmers, the project has helped to quantify the ecosystem services provided by mountain livestock farmers in Upper Austria and the associated provision costs but also to identify interesting solutions for remunerating these services.
On World Water Day and World Glaciers Day, we call more than ever to strengthen Europe's commitment to preserve glaciers, whose melting, especially in the Alps, poses a serious threat to Europe's water supply.
This updated policy brief for Euromontana members outlines the recent steps following the European Commission's proposal to downgrade the wolf's protection status.
In response to the poor condition of Basque grasslands, the OREKA MENDIAN project aimed to develop a joint management strategy for mountain pastures in the 15 Natura 2000 sites in Euskadi and the 8 sites in Iparralde.
There's no water resilient Europe without the mountains. Euromontana provides evidence on the role that mountains can play in water resilience in Europe and suggested policy improvements on the ground.
This policy brief for Euromontana members outlines the content of the new European Nature Restoration Law and its impact on mountain territories.
This event, organised in the framework of the ShepForBio project, will gather experts to discuss the role of pastoralism in the provision of key ecosystem services
ShepForBio aims to restore three targeted grassland habitats by improving pastoral management in Natura 2000 sites in the Apennines.