Between the World Wars, the Swiss League for the Protection of Nature (the earlier name of Pro Natura) held its general assemblies in the great outdoors, here in 1934 in the National Park.
The Swiss National Park in the eastern canton of Graubünden.
Langenberg animal park in canton Zurich.
Upper Lauterbrunnen Valley in canton Bern.
Paul Sarasin, one of the founding members of Pro Natura, (left) and Fritz Bühlmann, secretary of the Federal National Park Commission, visiting the park.
In the Felli Valley in central Switzerland.
The book contains a wide selection of historical pictures.
The Onsernone Valley in the southern canton of Ticino.
The River Doubs in western Switzerland.
Urban sprawl: Switzerland becomes a city.
Val Müstair in canton Graubünden.
Weisstannen, canton St Gallen, summer 1944: police walkers' backpacks to see if they have illegally collected protected alpine flowers.
Val Müstair
Award-winning book celebrates 100 years of the Pro Natura conservation society.
Swiss books are often among the most beautiful around. The Buchkunst Foundation in Leipzig, Germany, recently awarded prizes to various Swiss publishers, among them editor Marco Müller for the Pro Natura book, the Voice of Nature (Die Stimme der Natur). It has been published by Kontrast in German and Editions Slatkine in French.Pictures by Markus Bühler.
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