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 [...]
Are you interested in East African mountain ranges? Curious about the intersections of biodiversity, land-use and climate change? Are you invested in the risks and opportunities associated with the anthropogenic impacts affecting the biodiversity and ecosystem services of the mountains? Mountain Sentinel network partners yorK Institute for Tropical Ecosystems (KITE)'s Rob Marchant and AfriMont's Aida [...]
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 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 [...]
Are you interested in how to achieve the United Nations SDGs? Curious about the intersections of the various SDGs in practice? Are you invested in how development practitioners and conservationists collaborate, co-create, and intersect in their methods? Mountain Sentinel network partners GMBA and ICIMOD authored a paper alongside PhD student Biraj Adhikari that sparks exciting [...]
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 [...]
Are you interested in adaptations of agricultural practices in the mountains? Curious about the extremities of climate change impacting mountain communities' ways of life? Are you invested in the gaps of knowledge for mountain research in the Democratic Republic of the Congo? Mountain Sentinel network partners AfriMont authored a paper that sparks exciting discourse on [...]
By Rowena Davis| Mountain Sentinels Program Manager What better way to end 2022, and phase one of the UN Year of Sustainable Mountain Development, than by celebrating International Mountain Day? This year, Mountain Sentinels was honored to partner with Canadian Mountain Network to explore the 2022 theme of “Women Move Mountains” by hosting a dialogue [...]
Mountain Sentinels Fellows Katie Kamelamela and Tual Sawn Khai describe what the Moving Mountains summit in Basalt, Colorado meant for them and their mountain communities.