EUROPARC Conference is the largest gathering of park professionals in Europe. Every year the EUROPARC Federation members, partners and friends meet to discuss and debate the importance of protected areas and to share news, experiences and ideas. The programme of the EUR...

Wuyishan National Nature Reserve is located in the northwest of the Wuyi Mountain Range in northeastern Jiangxi Province. The fish fauna of mountain streams in the nature reserve was investigated seasonally from June 2015 to May 2016. A total of 2 505 samples were colle...

The Carpathians, as European mountains with exceptional natural and cultural values, are facing many challenges connected with sustainable development. Research provides important information for decision makers, planners and managers on how to deal with these issues. H...

National parks are the biggest and most important nature conservation systems in Turkey, but no effective protection approach has been applied in Turkey since the national park was established in 1976. Ilgaz Mountain National Park (IMNP) is a very important mountain eco...

Environmental problems are often constructed globally and through sophisticated instruments and methods. However, the extent to which these globally constructed problems correspond to ordinary citizens’ perceptions of the environment is often unclear. We focus here on r...

In 1914, the Swiss National Park was created in Grisons as only the second of its kind in Europe. For nearly a century after this pioneering act, nothing much happened in Switzerland. In recent years, however, Switzerland has experienced a veritable park creation boom. ...

This paper describes a concept for combining the biomonitoring ability of plants with their capacity to block the transport of pollutants before they can contribute to habitat degradation. Biomonitoring and buffer zones have not yet been combined to create an effective ...