News
NEWS
27th June 2008
CONGRATULATIONS to our new Charter members
At it's official meeting from 6-8 June 2008 in St. Martin Vésubie, France, the EUROPARC Evaluation Committee approved the the following twelve Charter applications:
Parco
Regionale dell'Adamello (I)
Aree Protette delle Alpi Lepontine
(I)
Sistema di Aree Protette dell' Oltrepò
Mantovano (I)
Parc
naturel régional des Causses du Quercy (F)
Parque Natural Sierras Subbéticas (E)
Parque Natural Cabo de Gata-Níjar (E)
Parque Natural del Estrecho (E)
Parque Natural Baixa Lima - Serra do
Xurés (E)
Parque Natural Las
Batuecas-Sierra de Francia (E)
Loch Lomond & the Trossachs
National Park (UK)
Yorkshire Dales National Park (UK)
All twelve applications were
approved by the Evaluation Committee at its meeting from 6-8 June 2008 in St.
Martin Vésubie and will receive their Charter Certificate at the EUROPARC
General Assembly in September 2008 in Poiana Braşov, Romania.
EUROPARC at the COP9
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NEW: Charter brochure - Joining Forces
Between November 2007 and March 2008 the project working group produced a detailed comparison between the CBD Guidelines for Biodiversity and Tourism Development and the European Charter. The focus was on demonstrating that the European Charter is an excellent tool for implementing on a local/protected area level the ideas of the CBD Guidelines.
The results of the comparison have been published in a brochure which will be used to strengthen the image of the Charter to decision-makers and politicians nationally and internationally.
Besindes general information the brochure contains 12 key issues of sustainable tourism illustrated with 25 good practice examples from different Charter protected areas.
1.650 copies in English language were printed and officially launched at the 9th Conference of the Parties (COP9) that was held from 19-30 May in bonn, Germany.
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