I have always felt that not only is it rewarding to work at several levels, but it is actually essential when dealing with research, management, species and habitat conservation issues.

Obviously, ALPARC is a transalpine network of protected areas – the importance of its role is generally recognised throughout the Alps and beyond.

[...] I have been fortunate enough to benefit from ALPARC's unifying role in the course of various activities that have been organised: thematic seminars, technical projects, general assemblies and friendly sporting events.

[...] ALPARC has given us access to an international audience that REEMA would have been unable to reach on its own.

"I was there in Gap in October 1995 when ALPARC was created. If I had to summarise what has happened over the past 15 years, I would say that despite the language barriers, we have really seen people opening their eyes to new possibilities and engaging in in-depth discussions. I would say that ALPARC is a catalyst."

"[…] I feel truly Alpine."

" [...] Every ALPARC project meeting has additional benefits: we learn more and improve daily working practices. The meetings are incredibly useful on several different levels."

"I have learned a great deal, as was the case on the field trip to visitor centres. I realise that we have a shared culture. We thought that all visitor centres would essentially be the same, but we encountered innovations and surprises, which gave us new ideas and the necessary impetus not to do the same, but rather to innovate, to adopt new concepts and reinvent our own projects."