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After the activities of scientific fishing for wels catfish conducted in the Natural Park of the Avigliana Lakes in April (the report can be found here), a second campaign was carried out in May by the staff of the National Research Council – Water Research Institute (CNR – IRSA) with the support of the park rangers of the Protected Areas of the Cozie Alps.

As the school holidays approach, the first cycle of educational activities proposed by the Protected Areas of the Cozie Alps as part of the Life Predator Project for the containment of catfish in the waters of the Nature Park of Avigliana Lakes has concluded. The initiative, financed by the European Union, indeed includes a series of educational and outreach actions aimed at raising citizens' awareness about the issues raised by the illegal introduction of the aquatic predator – an invasive alien species – in the freshwater basins of Southern Europe and about what is being done in the Avigliana Lakes to combat its spread.

In the months of June and July 2026, monitoring of the stag beetle will begin in the Avigliana Lakes Natural Park. The staff from the Biodiversity and Surveillance areas of the Cozie Alps Parks have decided to start a scientific activity to control Lucanus cervus, which is listed by the European Union as a protected species under the Habitat Directive and is considered to be declining. The aim is to assess its health status in the most suitable area among those managed by the Park Authority.

On Friday, May 22, 2026, an information session titled “Future of Val Troncea? Let's Decide Together!” took place in Pragelato, which was entirely open to dialogue and listening to the people who manage, work, oversee, and live in the Val Troncea Natural Park. The goal of the day was to listen to and gather requests from stakeholders, to be evaluated and developed in anticipation of drafting the future Area Plan of the Park.

In 2022, two park rangers from the Protected Areas of the Cottian Alps participated in a monitoring conducted in Aosta Valley as part of the international project GLobal Observation Research Initiative in Alpine environments (GLORIA) to measure the interaction between alpine flora and climate change. After a complex process of data reprocessing, the results of the fieldwork conducted under the guidance of ARPA Aosta Valley were published, with contributions from the Department of Life Sciences and Biological Systems (DBIOS) of the University of Turin and the Mont Avic Natural Park. 

Il progetto “Colombano 500”, promosso dal Comune di Exilles e realizzato in collaborazione con ArTeMuDa APS, i Parchi Alpi Cozie con l'Ecomuseo Colombano Romean e le realtà del territorio, costituisce un ampio programma di iniziative culturali, scientifiche e artistiche dedicate all'anniversario.

Domenica 17 maggio l'Ecomuseo Colombano Romean partecipa alle Giornate Europee dei Mulini con l'apertura del Mulino idraulico del Martinet di Salbertrand. Dalle 10 alle 13 e dalle 14 alle 18

6a edizione “L’ARTE di R-Esistere sui sentieri della Libertà” dal 16 maggio al 2 luglio 2026 al Ricetto per l'Arte di Almese

Nei siti Rete Natura 2000, ad esempio, nel rispetto della fase delicata di accoppiamento/nidificazione dell'avifauna, è previsto un periodo di sospensione degli interventi, in gergo denominato "silenzio selvicolturale" o "silenzio delle motoseghe": fino a 1000 metri di quota, i tagli sono sospesi dal 1° aprile al 15 giugno; sopra i 1000 metri di quota, sospensione dei tagli dal 1° maggio al 15 luglio

The Cinque Terre and Stelvio national parks, symbols of the Italian landscape, have long been facing the increase in tourism with innovative strategies to combine the preservation of biodiversity and the management of tourist flows. Invited by the Protected Areas of the Cozie Alps, they shared their experiences in a webinar as part of the cross-border cooperation project Alcotra BiodivTourAlps 2021/2027 that took place on February 10.
Both parks monitor tourism to manage "overtourism," trying to distribute visitors over time and space.