{"id":23821,"date":"2023-08-03T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/formazione-delle-guide-ecoturistiche-dal-mercantour-alla-lombardia\/"},"modified":"2023-08-03T21:10:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T21:10:00","slug":"formazione-delle-guide-ecoturistiche-dal-mercantour-alla-lombardia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/fr\/formazione-delle-guide-ecoturistiche-dal-mercantour-alla-lombardia\/","title":{"rendered":"Training and updating of ecotourism guides from Mercantour to Lombardy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Often the wolf is only seen as an economic detriment to animal husbandry and is perceived as a potential threat to alpine tourism. With the many initiatives implemented under action C7 of the LIFE WolfAlps EU project, the intention is to transform the wolf into an economic development factor through ecotourism proposals and products that protect the environment and improve coexistence with large carnivores.<\/strong> Ecotourism done well supports the local economy and the work of mountain breeders, improves knowledge of the wolf, raises tourists’ awareness of the impact of hiking<\/strong> and the behaviour to adopt when hiking in areas where the mountain pastures are protected from predators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The training of guides and tour operators is an essential element for the dissemination of content of the guidelines <\/strong><\/a>developed within the project and to foster the development of initiatives on the territory regardless of the duration of LIFE itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the start of the project, more than 7 training courses have been organised by the different partners in the project area, such as the one recently held in Slovenia<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New initiatives took place during these summer months. In June 2023, the project coordinator for the Mercantour National Park <\/strong>trained the mountain guides of the Park’s five valleys on the topic of interactions between wolves and human activities. The guides received the most up-to-date information in order to be able to talk about the topic at the forthcoming awareness-raising events they will organise this summer in mountain huts and other tourist locations.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n