NETWORKED FOR THE ALPS ANNUAL REPORT 2016 CIPRA INTERNATIONAL 02 | THE CIPRA NETWORK 2016 ANNUAL REPORT CIPRA INTERNATIONAL | 03 SOUTH TYROL Alpenverein Südtirol • Arbeitsgemeinschaft THE CIPRA für Vogelkunde und Vogelschutz in Südtirol • Baubiologie GERMANY Bergwacht im Bay- Südtirol • Bund Alternativer Anbauer • Heimatpflege verband REPRESENTATIONS AND erischen Roten Kreuz • Bergwald- Südtirol • LIA per Natura y Usanzes • Naturfreunde Meran- THEIR MEMBERS projekt e. V. • Bund Naturschutz in Südtirol • Naturtreff Eisvogel • Plattform Pro Pustertal • Süd - Bayern e. V. • Deutscher Alpenverein tiroler Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsför de rung • Südtiroler e. V. • Gesellschaft für ökologische HochschülerInnenschaft • Umweltgruppe Eis acktal • Um- Forschung e. V. • Landesbund für Vo- weltschutzgruppe Vinschgau • Local groups: Andrian, Bozen, gelschutz in Bayern e. V. • Mountain Eppan, Jenesien, Kaltern, Olang, Rasen-Antholz, Salurn, Ter- Wilderness Deutschland e. V. • Natur- lan, Ulten, Vahrn, Wipptal ITALY Associazione Ambiente e Lavoro • Freunde Deutschlands e. V. • Ökolo- www.cipra.org/suedtirol Associazione Dislivelli • Club Alpino Italiano • gischer Jagdverband e. V. • Verband SCHAAN/LI, APRIL 2017 Dachverband für Natur- und Umweltschutz in Süd- Deutscher Berg- und Skiführer • Ver- tirol • Federazione Italiana di Parchi e delle Riserve ein zum Schutz der Bergwelt e. V. SUSTAINING MEMBER DEAR READERS Naturali (Federparchi) • Federazione Italiana Pro www.cipra.org/germany Nederlandse Milieugroup Alpen, Netherlands Natura • Gruppo Italiano Amici della Natura • Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica • Italia Nostra • __This Annual Report is dedicated to a boat. the significance of culture for the develop- Lega Italiana Protezione Uccelli • Legambiente • FRANCE La Fédération Française des Clubs Alpins et de Montagne • La Fédération Française Not the one that supposedly is now com- ment of mountain regions; the CIPRAs in Aus- Mountain Wilderness Italia • Parco Alpi Marittime de Montagne et d’Escalade • Le comité régional Rhône-Alpes de la Fédération Française de la • Parco delle Orobie Valtellinesi • Parco Nazionale Randonnée pédestre • La Fédération Française Union Touristique des Amis de la Nature • La pletely full, but the one where all those on tria, Germany and South Tyrol are co-operat- della Val Grande • Parco Nazionale delle Dolomiti Fédération Nationale pour le Développement des Sports et du Tourisme en Montagne • WWF France board are working hard for a positive devel- ing closely in the transport sector; and CIPRA Bellunesi • Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio • Pro • Mountain Wilderness • La Fédération Rhône-Alpes de Protection de la Nature • France Nature opment in the Alpine region. International co-ordinates the network of the Natura Torino • Società di Scienze Naturali del Environnement Provence-Alpes Côte d’Azur • L’association pour le Développement en Réseau des And they work hard across all linguistic Alpine Towns of the Year – to mention just a Trentino • Servizio Glaciologico Lombardo Territoires et des Services • Le Centre de la Nature Montagnarde • Le Conservatoire départemental and cultural boundaries, often ignoring politi- few examples. www.cipra.org/italy des espaces naturels de Haute-Savoie • L’association des Amis du Parc Naturel Régional de Charteuse cal party boundaries, but always finding com- Looking beyond the immediate horizon • Parc Naturel Régional de la Chartreuse • Parc National des Ecrins • Parc National de Mercantour • Parc National de la Vanoise mon ground between their various sectors: (or, more fittingly, the immediate boundaries AUSTRIA Arbeits gemeinschaft www.cipra.org/france these are the networks and joint ventures that of one’s own valley), learning from and work- der Berg- und Naturwachten Öster - exist in the Alps, the ones that are so impor- ing with one another, and, ultimately, achiev- reichs • Kuratorium Wald • Natur- tant for innovation, creativity, and progress. ing a greater political reach: these are just freunde Österreich • Natur schutzbund SLOVENIA 136 membres individuels SWITZERLAND Alpen-Ini tiative The map of the Alps on pages 34–35 shows some of the positive aspects of those joint Österreich • Öster rei chischer Alpen- www.cipra.org/en/slovenia • Aqua Viva • Grimselverein • Moun- just how varied and diverse the fruits of that ventures. At the centre of it all is a shared in- verein • Österreichischer Forstverein tain Wilderness Schweiz • Naturfreun- • Österreichischer Touristenklub • de Schweiz • Pro Natura • Schweizer co-operation can be. terest in sustainable development to benefit Verband Österrei chi scher Höhlenfor- LIECHTENSTEIN Botanisch-Zoologische Gesellschaft Alpen-Club • Schweizer Vogelschutz CIPRA, itself constituted as a network, both the Alps as a natural environment and scher • Zentralstelle der Österrei- Liechtenstein-Sarganserland-Werdenberg • Fischereiverein SVS/BirdLife Schweiz • Schweize ri - is involved in many of these other networks, the Alpine population as a whole. chischen Landesjagdverbände • Die Liechtenstein • Liechtensteiner Alpenverein • Forstverein Liech- sche Greina-Stiftung • Stiftung Land - too. CIPRA France is networked as part of an Wishing you an enjoyable read – and neun Bundesländer Österreichs: Vor - tenstein • Liechtensteiner Jägerschaft • Liechtenstei nische schaftschutz Schweiz • WWF Schweiz event on job opportunities that have arisen as enjoy the networking, too! arlberg, Steier mark, Tirol, Salzburg, Gesellschaft für Umweltschutz • Imkereiverein Liechtenstein • (Passivmitglied) a result of the energy transition; in the Swiss Kärnten, Oberösterreich, Niederös- Liechtensteinischer Ornithologischer Landesverband • Solarge- www.cipra.org/switzerland terreich, Burgenland, Wien nossenschaft Liechtenstein • Verkehrs-Club Liechtenstein valley of Val Bregaglia countless organisa- Christian Baumgartner www.cipra.org/austria www.cipra.org/en/liechtenstein Photo: Martin Walser tions, including CIPRA Switzerland, discuss Vice-President of CIPRA International 04 | NETWORKED FOR THE ALPS 2016 ANNUAL REPORT CIPRA INTERNATIONAL | 05 Music brought Cassiano Luminati back to the Swiss mountain valley Puschlav. WHERE IDEAS MAKE WAVES CIPRA is a small organisation with a large network. It enables people to tackle challenges together and learn from one another – like Sandrine Percheval and Cassiano Luminati, who met for the first time at the AlpWeek in Grassau/D. __ It’s late afternoon on a cold October day of blue and gold. The excursion boat of the Chiemsee navigation company is rocking gently to and fro at its jetty mooring at Prien, Germany. Some 400 people are walking down the wooden jetty to board the ship. Sandrine Percheval and Cassiano Luminati are already on board, resting their arms on the ship’s railing as they watch the passengers board: elegant men and women, impeccably dressed. Small “ It’s a matter groups of young people in knitted scarves and trendily ripped jeans. Women in of combining traditional costume. Wafting above their heads, tufts of Gamsbart, or chamois beard, bristling from the hats of men in traditional Bavarian costume. All the existing structures heads turn in unison as the two German politicians step onto the boards: Bar- bara Hendricks, the Federal Minister for the Environment, and Ulrike Scharf, with something the Bavarian Minister for the Environment. The ship weighs anchor. new. ” »Bitte hier eine nette They have all travelled to Grassau for the AlpWeek, organised by many Bildunterschrift schreiben institutions, authorities and associations, including CIPRA. Numerous initiatives, schreiben Bildunter cultures, languages, organisations and approaches to potential solutions that all Bildunterschrift schreiben« come together around the theme of “People and the Alps”. Embedded into the Week is the 15th Alpine Conference, the principal body of the Alpine Convention. Today, under Germany’s chairmanship, the guests are invited to a state recep- tion at the palace of Schloss Herrenchiemsee on the eponymous island. 06 | NETWORKED FOR THE ALPS 2016 ANNUAL REPORT CIPRA INTERNATIONAL | 07 Sandrine Percheval, 35, and Cassiano Luminati, 45, sit down opposite each other at the stern of the ship. French and Swiss respectively, they both work within the ambit of CIPRA. This is the first time they have met in person. Cas- siano Luminati – dark beard, mischievous smile – grew up in the remote valley of Valposchiavo near the border with Lombardy. At the age of 18 he left the valley to study architecture in the vibrant city of Milan. “All I wanted was city Sandrine Percheval life!” he exclaims. “And all I wanted was sunshine and warmth, so I went to likes the social study in Southern France,” adds Sandrine. aspect of her work. She’s eager to know what brought Cassiano Luminati back to the moun- tains. “Music,” he answers. “In 1998 a friend asked me if I could help her or- ganise a jazz festival in Val Poschiavo.” He could. It was a resounding success, and it also marked Luminati’s new start in life in the valley. It’s now fifteen years since he was first appointed director of Polo Poschiavo, a centre of excellence for further education. “The way I see it,” he explains, “it’s a matter of combining existing structures with something new.” Right now they’re working on cross- border vocational training schemes. In 2005 Polo Poschiavo was awarded a main prize as part of CIPRA’s Future in the Alps Project. Rediscovering home from a distance “Do you also work with young people?” Sandrine wants to know. “Yes. As president of the Val Poschiavo