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Information on organised public transport in the Triglav National Park and the Julian Alps Biosphere Area, guided tours, hints for excursions and tips for visiting.

The newspaper is aimed at residents, visitors, fans and supporters. It is free for park residents and available at Triglav National Park information centres. Up to two issues a year are published.

This time, Feel Slovenia the Podcast explores Triglav National Park, Slovenia's only national park. The episode celebrates the park's 100th anniversary, highlighting its significance as a protected landscape under UNESCO. The focus is on responsible and sustainable tourism, with emphasis on Mount Triglav, Slovenia's highest peak. Various guests share their experiences and insights, including climbers, comedians, authors, and tourism directors, discussing the symbolism of Triglav and the park's trails. With laughter, awe, and wisdom, the episode promotes mutual respect between tourists and locals, emphasizing the park's role in balancing nature conservation and tourism.

A major feature of the Anthropocene is the drastic increase in global soil erosion. Soil erosion is threatening Earth habitability not only as soils are an essential component of the Earth system but also because societies depend on soils. However, proper quantification of the impact of human activities on erosion over thousands of years is still lacking. This is particularly crucial in mountainous areas, where the highest erosion rates are recorded. Here we use the Lake Bourget catchment, one of the largest in the European Alps, to estimate quantitatively the impact of human activities on erosion. Based on a multi-proxy, source-to-sink approach relying on isotopic geochemistry, we discriminate the effects of climate fluctuations from those of human activities on erosion over the last 10,000 years. We demonstrate that until 3800 years ago, climate is the only driver of erosion. From that time on, climate alone cannot explain the measured rates of erosion. Thanks to an unprecedented regional paleoenvironmental reconstruction, we highlight that the development of pastoralism at high altitudes from the Bronze Age onwards and the extension of agriculture starting in the Middle Ages were key factors in the drastic increase in erosion observed in the Alps.

The Triglav National Park wall calendar is thematically themed and represents the first 100 years of protection of the Julian Alps. The price of the calendar is EUR 9.90 incl. VAT, and it can be purchased at all Triglav National Park information points. Discount applies for larger quantities. Contact: mojca.smolej@tnp.gov.si

The newspaper is aimed at residents, visitors, fans and supporters. It is free for park residents and available at Triglav National Park information centres. Up to two issues a year are published.

Nature-based recreation is a key ecosystem service that contributes to positive physical and mental welfare but, at the same time, nature-based recreational activities can increase human pressure and impacts on natural areas and biodiversity. Understanding people’s preference for visiting natural settings is challenging due to data and methodological limitations. Social media data can be used to map nature-based recreation. However, variation in popularity of platforms and limitations to data accessibility are highlighting the importance of exploring and using different data sources. We analyzed complementary crowdsourced data using an automated content analysis refined by manual identification to assess nature-based recreation ecosystem services across the Maltese archipelago. A content analysis of images uploaded to Flickr between 2015 and 2021 was performed using the Google Vision machine learning algorithm to identify nature-based interactions and nature visitation patterns were modeled based on landscape characteristics, environmental variables and socio-economic parameters. Flickr data were compared and complemented with publicly available geolocated data from the iNaturalist platform. Significant difference was found between the spatial distribution of Flickr and iNaturalist data. Generalized linear models identified coastal areas, protected areas, natural habitats and accessibility via the road network as significant predictors of nature-based recreational visits. Localities with a higher percentage of people receiving old age and unemployment benefits were also positively correlated with users’ preference for nature-based recreation. Finally, we discussed how the low resource methodology developed here to identify people’s nature-based recreational preferences can be used to assess which natural areas should be prioritized for ecological restoration efforts.

In cooperation with the Julian Alps Community, the Triglav National Park Public Institute is preparing guides for visitors to the Julian Alps Biosphere Area. The magazine in Slovenian and English provides tips for excursions, useful information for visiting in winter, interesting facts about the animals of the Triglav National Park, ideas for winter hikes with detailed descriptions. The youngest children will also find it useful. The magazine is available at all information points of the Triglav National Park and at the tourist offices of the Julian Alps Biosphere Area.

Nature-based tourism constitutes a major segment of world tourism. Protected areas are considered a popular theme in the literature, which is characterised by a great heterogeneity in concepts, contents, and purposes. This study analyses many of the indicators of interest related to the research on the themes of protected areas and nature-based tourism. Consequently, we aim to offer a global and updated vision of the research produced regarding these themes over the last 30 years. With bibliometric tools (Bibliometrix and VOSviewer), 1033 scientific articles were analysed. The results indicate that the research in this area exponentially increased in the last decade. Using a co-occurrence network of keywords, five major themes in this study were identified: (1) ecotourism; (2) nature conservation, biodiversity, and sustainability; (3) national parks, recreation, and climate change; (4) sustainable management and development; and (5) with a lesser degree of representation, themes related to China and ecosystem services. A timespan analysis on this network enabled the identification of six trends in the research over the last years: (i) sustainable tourism; (ii) climate change; (iii) geotourism and rural tourism; (iv) ecosystem services and cultural ecosystem services; (v); visitor studies; and (vi) wildlife tourism. Nature-based tourism plays a significant and crucial role in sustainable development. Analysing research in protected areas and nature-based tourism provides insights into key themes and emerging trends, serving as a valuable resource for knowledge advancement.

Information on organised public transport in the Triglav National Park and the Julian Alps Biosphere Area, guided tours, hints for excursions and tips for visiting.