Mountain Forum Bulletin: Sustainable tourism for poverty alleviation in mountain areas

The focus of the Bulletin is on tourism and how it can help alleviate poverty in mountain areas:

• Making partnerships for sustainable gorilla tourism in Mgahinga, Uganda by Moses Musinguzi
• Periyar eco-tourism project in Kerala, India by Santhosh P Thampi
• Traditional rural landscape or 'wilderness' in the Alps? by F Hochetl, S Lehringer and W Konold
• Mountain greenways in Mexico by Antonio Suarez
• Sustainable tourism in the Ecuadorian Andes by Claire Catherine Nicklin
• Revamping tourism in the land of the Thunder Dragon - interview with Dr Martin Uitz by Bill Bierling
• Folk tale: The legend of Lake Ohnami
• Mountain Voices website by Panos London
• From Kalashnikov to ice axe; From burqah to climbing helmet by Mountain Wilderness International
• European Park Observatory - OPE by Elizabeth Fox
• Aspen, Colorado: The canary initiative by Amy Krause
• Connecting mountain regions for change by Jane Ross
• Earthquake special: My home is still standing but my soul is buried in the rubble by Farooq Ahmad