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Día Internacional de las Montañas: Restauración de los ecosistemas de montaña.
La asamblea general de la ONU proclamó el 11 de diciembre como Día Internacional de las Montañas, pero 10 años antes Naciones Unidas ya había aprobado un plan de acción ‘Programa 21’ en el que incluía un aparatado sobre ‘Ordenación de los Sistemas Frágiles: desarrollo sostenible de las zonas de montaña’.
En 2023 el tema del Día Internacional de las montañas es la ‘Restauración de los ecosistemas de montaña’. De esta manera se quiere poner el foco en la importancia de los ecosistemas de montaña y sensibilizar acerca de su relevancia, pedir soluciones, inversiones y unas buenas y mejores prácticas que sirvan para reducir la vulnerabilidad y aumentar la capacidad de las montañas para adaptarse a un futuro incierto, con amenazas diarias y eventos climáticos extremos.

A day to vindicate hiking as a recreational and sporting activity and to highlight the privileged conditions of Aragon for its natural scenery and its extensive network of certified trails that make this community an international benchmark for the quality of the same.

World Environment Day is celebrated on 5 June. The first Environment Day established by the United Nations General Assembly was in 1972, so this is the 50th anniversary of this event. This year the theme is: plastic pollution.

World Bicycle Day is celebrated every 3 June. It was thanks to a UN decree, proclaimed in 2018, that this event was created to highlight the importance of an ecological and healthy means of transport.

Have you ever tried this sport? Nordic walking involves the arms, shoulders, back, legs and hips and, whatever your age, can improve your physical condition or tone your muscles, as well as serving as an anaerobic workout or therapeutic walk.

Did you know that Sweden was the country where the first European national parks were declared? The European Day of Parks is a day to celebrate and share the value of protected natural areas. This Wednesday, all of Europe’s nature parks unite under the slogan “Building on our roots” to think about the natural heritage that surrounds us and reflect on our responsibility to protect and conserve it for future generations.

‘From agreement to action: build back biodiversity’
The 2023 commemoration is special because a historic agreement has been reached: the Kumming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. It is a document signed in December 2022 that sets concrete targets and actions to halt and reverse the loss of nature by 2050.

‘La tierra es nuestro refugio, ayudemos a protegerla y cuidarla. De ello depende el futuro de muchas generaciones’.
Desde Naciones Unidas tratan de implicar a todo el mundo (gobiernos, empresas y ciudadanos) en el trabajo del cuidado y protección del medio ambiente.

In cross-country skiing you don’t walk, you glide and, when you do it, the sensations are indescribable. But… what is the origin of cross-country skiing? This modality was born in Norway and Russia, when wooden skis were used as a means of transport. Over time it has become a very popular sport.

What better day to begin MASPIRINEO blog than today, December 11, International Mountain Day, this year with the theme ‘Women move mountains’. Today is International Mountain Day, and it should be the other 364 days of the year. Today is also a day to reflect on the role we play in the face of threats such as climate change, natural disasters, or the melting of glaciers… that threaten the survival of mountains and represent a problem that involves us ALL.