... one-third of all European vascular plant species can be found in the Carpathians? That means almost 4,000 plant species, and 481 of them are found only in the Carpathians!
… Gerlachovsky Peak (2,655 m altitude) in the High Tatras in Slovak Republic is the highest peak of the Carpathians?
… the European Union’s largest populations of brown bears, wolves, lynx, European bisons and imperial eagles (globally threatened species) are found in the Carpathians?
… 36 national parks, 51 nature parks and protected landscape areas, 19 biosphere reserves and 200 other protected areas are member of the Carpathian Network of Protected areas
… there are 36 registered UNESCO World Heritage sites and 49 important pilgrimage destinations in the Carpathian area?
… the number of hotels in the Carpathians has increased by nearly 60% in the last ten years?
… the Carpathians contain the continent's largest remaining natural mountain beech and beech/coniferous forest ecosystems and the largest area of pristine forest in Europe (outside Russia)?
... the Carpathians are the largest, most twisted and fragmented mountain chain in Europe? They are Europe’s largest mountains by area.
… in the 1970’s, about 1,000,000 people worked in the mining sector in the Carpathians? Today, the number of employees in this sector is about 340,000.
… the Carpathians were put on the WWF ‘Global 200’ list of major ecoregions in need of biodiversity and habitat conservation?
… more than half of the Carpathians are covered by forests? The Carpathian forests are a vital link between the forests of the north and those of the west and south-west of Europe.
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Francesco Gaeta (Director of European and International Affairs/ Ministry of the Environment)
Bożena Haczek (Head of Unit, Department of Nature Conservation, Ministry of Climate and Environment of Poland)
Moderation by Matthias Jurek & Musonda Mumba (United Nations Environment Programme)
Keynote: Perspectives from the United Nations Environment Programme on the global agenda for the protection of mountain biodiversity (Bruno Pozzi, Director Europe Office, United Nations Environment Programme)
Word cloud with the audience
Coffee break I (10:30-10:45 CET)
Word cloud with the audience
Video on glacier loss on Kilimanjaro and with ice climber and UNEP Mountain Hero Will Gadd
Central Asian mountains: Climate change, endangered mountain species and human-wildlife conflict (Mirzo N. Mirzoev, Conservationist Association of Nature Conservation Organizations of Tajikistan)
Andes: Threats of agrobiodiversity loss, climate action and food for health (Stef de Haan, Scientist Andean Food Systems & lead Andean Initiative, International Potato Center)
East Africa/Virunga: Conservation of mountain gorillas (under the perspective of land-use change, intensive agriculture, spreading of zoonotic diseases)
Pauliina Upla (Associate Programme Officer UN Environment Programme) & Dr. James Byamukama (Program Coordinator, Greater Virunga Transboundary Collaboration)
Wildlife conservation and ecosystem-based adaptation in times of climate change under UNEP’s Vanishing Treasures programme in the Himalayas, Bhutan (Dr. Tshering Tempa, Director of the Bhutan Tiger Center under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests)
Insights from projects on connectivity and Protected Areas management/ Centralparks and ConnectGREEN (Cristian Remus Papp, WWF & Isidoro De Bortoli, EURAC)
Moderation: Musonda Mumba, Matthias Jurek and Chris Walzer
Panel:
Stéphanie Croguennec (Head of Department for Climate Change and sustainable development, Ministry of the Environment, France)
Christiane Barret (General delegate of the French EUSALP Presidency)
Alenka Smerkolj (Secretary General of the Alpine Convention)
Prof. Dr. Chris Walzer (Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology; University of Veterinary Medecine Vienna / Executive Director of Health at the Wildlife Conservation Society, New York / USA)
Dr. Massimo Bocca (Director Mont Avic Nature Park, Aosta / I)
Dr. Francesca Cagnacci (Edmund March Fondation, Trento / I)
Prof. Dr. Ingolf Kühn (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Halle / D)
Questions /Discussion
Dr. Ruedi Haller (Swiss National Park, Zernez / CH)
Cédric Conteau (National Agency for the cohesion of territories) & Sandrine Descotes-Genon (Region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes) & Cécile Cadet Direction Coopération Euro-Méditerranéenne (Region Sud Provence-Alpes Côte d’Azur) / F
Questions /Discussion
Participants:
Bérangère Abba (State Secretary for Biodiversity, Ministry of the Ecological Transition, F)
Alenka Smerkolj (Secretary General of the Alpine Convention, SI/Int)
Harald Egerer (Secretary General of the Carpathian Convention, A / Int)
Gudrun Bruckner (Young Professionals, Action Group 7, EUSALP, A)
Rachel Lühti (Young Professionals, Action Group 7, EUSALP, CH)
Paolo Angelini (Head of Alpine Biodiversity Board, Ministry of the Environment, I)
Representatives Alpine Convention, Carpathian Convention and EUSALP, Young professionals on biodiversity and ecological connectivity
Bérangère Abba (State Secretary of Biodiversity, France)