Last year, the area was designated a Unesco World Network of Biosphere Reserve.

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In a partnership with the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) based in Berne (Switzerland), the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), UNESCO is selecting biosphere reserve sites from each of the major mountainous regions of the world as the focus for this new global climate change monitoring programme.

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During the first day of the programme, participants will meet in Venice at the UNESCO Regional Office where they will be introduced to the World Heritage (WH) and MAB Biosphere Reserve (BR) designation schemes.

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