Climate change is causing catastrophic weather pattern changes to mountain ranges around the world. Recently, both Nepal and the Appalachian Mountains have been victim to exacerbated storms and hurricanes, leading to extraordinary flooding across the regions. Devastation in Ashville, North Carolina after Hurricane Helene. Photo by Bill McMannis. In the last few weeks [...]
This month, we are sharing Miriam Elizabeth Pérez Zelaya as the community spotlight. Miriam shares her story and experience from working on cooperative and organic coffee farms in Honduras. As an approach to creating accessible spaces for different languages, we have kept the community spotlight in the original Spanish. Previously, Mountain Sentinels was lucky to [...]
We are excited to share insights from the recent event, "Just and Sustainable Climate Futures: Stories and Solutions from the Mountains." This dynamic gathering, hosted on December 11, 2023, at the JustNorth Pavilion during UNFCCC COP28 in observance of UN International Mountain Day, brought together 18 passionate individuals from various mountain communities worldwide. Led by Katie Kamelamela, Assistant Professor at Arizona State University and Mountain Sentinels Fellow, along with Jacob Stewart, Mountain Sentinels Community Director, the event aimed to explore community-based approaches to climate adaptation, mitigation, and sustainable mountain development.
By: Rowena Davis, Program Manager In late September, I was fortunate enough to be one of five travelers from Mountain Sentinels who attended the Canadian Mountain Network’s (CMN) Knowledge Sharing Summit in Parksville, British Columbia on the traditional territory of the Coast Salish peoples, including the Snuneymuxw, Qualicum, and Snaw-Naw-As Nations. Over several days, Indigenous [...]
By Claire Walther Claire Walther is a CSU undergraduate student engaged in developing GIS StoryMaps for Mountain Sentinels. On a sunny Saturday in August, From Burn to Bloom: The Art and Science of Wildfire Recovery taught members of the Fort Collins community about wildfire ecology with interactive activities for all ages. Hosted by the Colorado [...]
Mountain Sentinels is collaborating with Livable Future Podcast to accelerate and uplift the voices of mountain communities around action, struggle, and development towards sustainable futures. This series will bring stories of mountain community members, leaders, scientists, and activists. Some episodes will feature community members of the Mountain Sentinels Alliance and their unique perspectives. You can [...]
“Mountains are our origins and mountains are our solutions,” declared Wu Zhimin, Director of the Forestry Division for FAO, at the beginning of the closing ceremonies of the UN International Year of Sustainable Mountain Development in his role as moderator. This idea carried on throughout the entire conversation from forestry, to conservation, to genetics. Dongyu [...]
Photo credit to Virtyt Morina. By Katie Mitchell | Thru-Hiking & Hiking Trails Katie is a people professional – inspiring, pushing, questioning, and building. And with over a decade of experience working with people in the adventure space, she’s ready to help you begin checking off that bucket list. Katie was previously the [...]
By Annie Webb On December 9th, the Canadian Mountain Network (CMN) and Mountain Sentinels Alliance hosted the dialogue, Women Move Mountains, on United Nations International Mountain Day (IMD) 2022. Around the world, women play a key role in the stewardship, conservation, economic development, and management of mountains, including the keeping and sharing of traditional knowledge. IMD 2022 [...]
Mountain Sentinels wants to hear from our members, partners, and audience. We invite you to submit a brief pitch about living, working, or researching in the mountains which could be featured in the Mountain Sentinels blog and linked in our newsletter. This is an opportunity to have a published work disseminated to our international [...]