For millennia, the Silk Road has been a dynamic flux of people, products and ideas between the East and West. Today it links countries with borders demarcated based on politics, rather than natural or cultural boundaries. But the alpine ecosystems along the Silk Road defy the arbitrary lines that fragment them on maps. Conservation efforts, then, must transcend these same borders to be sustainable on environmental and human scales.
Transboundary Conservation
Global Transboundary Protected Areas Network
IUCN Transboundary Conservation Specialist Group
Mountain environments and culture
IUCN-WCPA Mountain Protected Areas Group
The International Center for Integrated Mountain Development
The Mountain Forum
Conservation for development
2010 International Year of Biodiversity
United Nations Environment Program
IISD: Conservation in post-conflict settings
There are people who have no engaged conversation with the land whatsoever, no sense of its beauty or extremes or limits, and therefore no reason to question their actions in a place that is merely backdrop. –Ellen Meloy, The Last Cheater’s Waltz