Protected areas

Anticosti, ce morceau de continent échoué comme une baleine sur son flanc, a attiré de tout temps les êtres épris de liberté. Ce récif démesuré a seine la mort mais il a aussi donne le bonheur. Une solitude obsédante s'en dégage, devenant le refuge de ceux qui rêvent d'un nouveau monde en marge de la modernité. La relation d'Alain Dumas et d'Yves Ouellet avec Anticosti en est une de passion, presque d'obsession.

Areas of high ecological value, i.e. parks and protected areas as well as urban parks, experience ever increasing pressures from recreation and tourism. In addition, new technologies make remote areas increasingly accessible. This leads to extensive ecological impacts, and to increasing conflicts between user groups.

Handbook and abstracts for conference held in 1996.

The starting point of the present study is the fact that the quality of biotopes in Switzerland that are nationally protected is deteriorating and some are also shrinking in size. There are nearly 6000 biotopes in Switzerland, covering about 2% of the country's surface area. They belong to five categories: raised bogs, fens, floodplains, dry meadows and pastures, and spawning areas for amphibians.