Por: Abriti Moktan, becario de Mountain Sentinels Me embarqué en un viaje improvisado, corto y lleno de energía a Perú para asistir a la Cumbre de Centinelas de la Montaña en Huaraz, en medio del caos de la semana de los exámenes finales en diciembre. El valor central de la cumbre giraba en torno a [...]
By: Abriti Moktan, Mountain Sentinels Fellow Traducir al español I embarked on a short, power-packed, impromptu trip to Peru to attend the Mountain Sentinels Summit at Huaraz amidst the chaos of finals week in December. The summit’s core value revolved around Hatun Tinkuy, meaning “large encounter, getting together for a common interest towards sustainable future [...]
“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 by Claudio Carrozzo on Unsplash The University of Turin is set to launch a new three-year degree course in Mountain Sciences and Technologies (MONTES) for the 2023-2024 academic year, subject to final approval by ministerial bodies by the end of spring. MONTES is being spearheaded by the Department of Agricultural, Forestry and [...]
On February 26, 2020, a quarry company started to encroach on Masungi’s assigned reforestation site. They put up barbed wires that will cut off reforestation work in some 500 hectares of degraded land around the georeserve (the equivalent of 11,450 basketball courts). It is apparent that the quarry company’s intention is to drive the project team [...]
Are you interested in adaptations by coffee farmers in the mountains? Curious about the extremities of climate change impacting mountain communities' ways of life? Are you invested in the intersections of climate change and everyday farmer adaptations? Mountain Sentinel network partners AfriMont authored a paper that sparks exciting discourse on the subjects above! If you [...]
Learn more about the opportunity here! Mountain Research and Development Journal is asking for a call of papers on migration trends and their impacts on mountain areas. They say, "with this focus issue, we aim to contribute to a better understanding of migration trends, drivers, and impacts in mountain areas. In particular, we are looking [...]
Mountain Sentinels Network partner Mountain Research Initiative's (MRI) Executive Director, Carolina Adler, lead and authored the Cross-Chapter Paper on 'Mountains' featured in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change AR6 WGII Climate report 'Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.' The paper assesses climate change impacts and risks, vulnerability as well as barriers and options for [...]
Learn more about this offer here. The University of Oregon is currently looking for PhD and MS students to join our lab in the Department of Geography. Students that are accepted will be fully-funded through teaching and/or research assistantships. Our group(s) specialize in satellite and drone remote sensing of the cryosphere and northern hydrology. We [...]
Feminist Hiking Collective is a feminist non-profit organisation and a transnational hub for feminist hikers. Their aim is to contribute to transformative system change through feminist pedagogy, research and resource co-creation, and to build collective feminist leadership and power through hiking. They wish to co-build a feminist world for the common good that is grounded in [...]