Programme director
Sergio Savoia
Programme director
WWF Switzerland,
Bellinzona Branch Office
+41 91 820 60 81
Biodiversity Officer
Guido Trivellini
BIODIVERSITY OFFICER, EUROPEAN ALPINE PROGRAMME
WWF Italy,
Milan
+39 02 83133290
Programme Assistant
Sarah Marshall
European Alpine Programme Assistant
WWF Switzerland,
Bellinzona Branch Office
+41 91 8206084
Contacts by country
Jean-Christophe Poupet
Ecotourism/Alps Program Officer
WWF France,
Lyon
+33 478 27 39 95
Nicole Schreyer
Head of the Alpine Programme, Austria
WWF Austria,
Alpine Programme,
Innsbruck
+43 512 573534 25
Walter Vetterli
Head Alpine Programme, directeur romand a.i.
WWF Switzerland,
Zurich main
+41 22 939 39 81
Latest News & Publications
Sustainable holidays in the Alps
Nice weather and the approaching summer inevitably bring to mind holidays. The Alps are one of the leading global destination for tourists, with million of tourists spending their summer vacations in their idyllic setting.
WWF volunteers help wolves by helping shepherds !
WWF Switzerland has launched a new eco-voluntary project for 2009. Volunteers spend time helping shepherds implement wolf protection measures in areas where their return is most likely.
Bear protection measures for beehives and sheep herds in the Italian Alps
Spring approaches and all across the Alps bears are slowly emerging from their winter slumber. WWF Italy, the Ministry of the Environment, and the Veneto Region are involved in an initiative for the protection of herds and beehives. Bear-proof fencing for beehives will be distributed in areas bears have visited in the past.
A tumultous year for the Alps’ famous three (wolves, bears and lynx)
2008 proved an important if arduous year for the most famous inhabitants of the Alps.
In the past few years there has been a slow but constant recolonisatin of the alpine range by all three species but reception from the local communities has been mixed.
WWF's role has been especially important in implementing damage prevention measures and information campaigns on the best ways to co-exist with the alpine famous three.
ECONNECT- restoring the web of life
In early November a kick-off meeting in Vienna launched the ambitious international project “ECONNECT restoring the web of life”, financed by the EU (as part of the Alpine Space Programme) and with the close collaboration of WWF’s European Alpine programme. The new frontier of nature conservation is the establishment of ecological networks between habitats and protected areas across the Alps and the newly launched project is a powerful first step in this direction.