European Union and funding programme

• EU - European Union
• European Commission Environment Sector
• EEA - European Environment Agency
• EIONET - European Environment Information and Observation Network
• ETC BD - European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity
• ECNC - European Centre for Nature Conservation

• ERDF - European regional development fund
• INTERREG III B Alpine Space Programme
• INTERREG III B in Germany
• INTERREG III B in Austria
• INTERREG III B in Switzerland

Alpine Space

• Alpine Convention
• ALPARC - Alpine Network of Protected Areas
• HABITALP - project community
• CIPRA - Internationale Alpenschutzkommission

International conventions

• EUR-Lex - Law of the European Union

• NATURA 2000 Network
• Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the
  conservation of wild birds (Birds Directive)
• Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the
  conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora (Habitat Directive)

• Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
• Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (BONN Convention, CMS)
• Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (BERN Convention)
• European Landscape Convention

• INSPIRE - European Geo-Portal
• INSPIRE - Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community

Further use of HABITALP results

• ALPENCOM - ALP ENvironmental COMmunication
• Biosphärenreservat Val Müstair
• Nationalpark Gesäuse
• GEOLAND - Integrated GMES Project on Land Cover and Vegetation

Transnational data sources

• Reference list of habitat types and species
  present in the Alpine Biogeographical Region
• EUR25 Interpretation Manual of European Union Habitats
• PHYSIS Data Base of Palaearctic Habitats
• EUNIS - European Nature Information System

• CORINE Land Cover 2000
• SRTM digital elevation model
• CRS - Information and Service System for European
  Coordinate Reference Systems

Other initiatives and projects

• CIPRA Future in the Alps:
  Disseminating knowledge – networking people
• SPIN - Spatial Indicators for European Nature Conservation
• SOIA (ABIS) - System for the Observation of and Information on the Alps
• SISTEMaPARC - Spatial Information Systems for Transnational Environmental Management of Protected Areas and Regions in CADSES
• IPAM - Integrative Protected Area Management
• NATURE GIS - A European thematic network for Protected Areas / Nature Preservation and Geographical Information