CIPRA International helps forests with WOWnature

CIPRA is an independent non-governmental and non-profit umbrella organisation, committed since 1952 to the protection and sustainable development of the Alps. CIPRA was the initiator of the Alpine Convention, the first international treaty for a mountain region ever signed, which we continue to support and to further develop. Today, with our international executive office in Liechtenstein, our national and regional representations in seven Alpine countries, and around one hundred member organisations, CIPRA is an important Alpine- wide network.

In line with its purpose, CIPRA is particularly focused on caring for the biodiversity as well as for the climate, in terms of both reducing GHG emissions, as well as being resilient to a changing climate. For us, caring for the climate goes hand-in-hand with restoring nature and restoring human relationship with nature and among humans. Since 2022 we started being accountable for our emissions, which mainly come from the public events that we organize to enable networking, meaningful exchanges and sharing of knowledge.

In 2025 we developed our own climate-responsibility strategy to minimise our negative effects on climate. The ‘Valle del Ticino Park’ project is particularly well suited to this and to our mission towards the Alpine region: it is located in the Ticino transnational landscape shared by two Alpine countries: Switzerland and Italy. It is an area already recognized as an important ecological corridor connecting the Alps to the Apennines and, via the Po River, to the Adriatic Sea. The binational Ticino Initiative has a long-term vision, a medium-term restoration plan to 2031 and a solid pathway to achieve it through effective cross-border cooperation among several parties, in line with the goals of the Alpine Convention. In the area, significant development coexists and sometimes clashes with important natural values, reflecting a challenge that to a different extent is found everywhere in the Alpine region and which we are used to addressing.