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Supported by Alpin magazine in Germany for the third year running, this category contains those projects located in some of the tallest, steepest, coldest, most inaccessible and most breathtaking areas of the world. 5 projects are all asking for your help in gaining support from the European Outdoor Conservation Association in 2013.
 
Please read though the details of the projects looking for your vote, and then select the one you would like to receive funding from EOCA this year. A difficult choice as they are all very worthwhile projects!

If you would prefer to vote in German, you can visit our German website or using on the Alpin website.

Voting in this category runs from 14th to 28th March 2013.
 

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Fix the Fells, UK

Website: http://www.nurturelakeland.org, http://www.fixthefells.co.uk,

The Lake District National Park draws over 15 million visitors each year, many of whom come to walk the popular high mountain paths. A favourite ascent of Fairfield, is the path leading up from Grisedale Tarn. Erosion through high footwall has lead to loss of vegetation, which, combined with heavy rain is causing serious washout of the peaty soil, releasing carbon stored within it, and causing siltation of the tarn below which supports breeding fish. Left unabated, this will cause increasingly serious impacts for the fragile mountain ecosystem in this area, which is very important biologically for its number of rare arctic alpine species, and diversity of its acid grassland communities. As well as repairing this section of footpath, a large component of this project is also the training of new volunteers, to work on this, and 50 other paths requiring maintenance in the Lake District.

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High altitude habitats for Snow Leopards, Indian Himalaya

Website: http://www.snowleopard.org

Snow leopards are one of the most endangered of the big cats and only 4000-6500 remain in the wild. India is home to the third largest snow leopard population in the world, and the Upper Spiti Valley’s underdeveloped alpine habitat has been identified as one of the most important snow leopard habitats in India. An estimated 10,000 tourists visit this area annually to experience the landscape and many hope to see signs of snow leopards. The goal of this project is to help communities safeguard the delicate Upper Spiti ecosystem and its wildlife while continuing their traditional way of life. This will be achieved by keeping 25 square km of steppe grasslands free from livestock to allow snow leopard prey to recover, an insurance scheme requiring farmers to safeguard the leopards and compensating them for livestock lost to the leopard predation, and eco-camps for local school children focussing on local wildlife and conservation.

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Mountain Forests, Catalonia 

Website: http://www.projecteboscos.cat

Mountain forests such as the Pyrenees have been affected by, and relied upon by man for thousands of years. This forest management project will enable the outdoor user to get involved in conservation during 9 different weeks of voluntary work programmes, involving forest paths restoration, forest thinning, habitat restoration, and bio-engineering work to mitigate erosion. This work will amongst other things enhance the habitat for the Capercaile. These birds depend on a diverse habitat. Abandonment of some areas by farmers and logging activities has led to a reduction in the Capercaile’s traditional food source, blueberries, in the forests. This project will also improve access by restoring and maintaining forest tracks to allow outdoor users and locals to access areas of the forest.

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Palkachupa Cotinga Nature Reserve, Bolivia

Website: http://www.worldlandtrust.org

Located on a plateau 1200m above sea level in north western Bolivia is the Andean Cerrado Woodland ecosystem, a unique habitat isolated from the better known Brazilian Cerrado. 80% of this habitat has been lost to agriculture and cattle ranching, leaving severely fragmented and highly degraded habitat, and what forest remains is under immense threat. This is an important habitat to many endemic plant species, possibly the spectacled bear and over 300 species of bird, including the Palkachupa Cotinga, which was thought extinct until its rediscovery in 2000. There is an urgent need to expand and reforest the Palkachupa Cotinga Nature Reserve, (currently only 130 acres in size), given the level of forest clearance taking place. This project will purchase and protect a further 158 acres of threatened and degraded woodland, integrate sustainable development in the local community within the conservation of the reserve (eg honey production and expansion of the trails network), and reforest degraded habitat.

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Restoration of Getschner Scharte, Austria

Website: http://www.alpenverein.de

The Silvretta mountains are home to a whole sequence of habitats, from meadows and forest, through to highly adapted alpine vegetation and then glaciers and rock at the tops. Visitors to the area can experience wilderness, alpine wildlife and glacial landscapes. The Trail number 302 highest point, Getschner Scharte can no longer be passed safely as it has been destroyed by rock fall. This project will remodel and partially move the trail to safer terrain, avoiding highly sensitive areas of rare vegetation, enabling people to cross through several vegetation zones while protecting wildlife habitats from being trampled.

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The funding is enabling us to repair a damaged section of the iconic Three Peaks long distance footpath and restore an area of internationally important upland habitat. Voting for our project was a simple but highly effective way for our supporters to show how strongly they felt about improving access and protecting the landscape of this wonderful area. Thank you , EOCA!
Don Gamble, Yorkshire Dales Millenium Trust
 

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