Natural World Heritage sites include iconic places such as the Great Barrier Reef, Yellowstone, the Galápagos Islands and Kilimanjaro, and are recognised as the world's most significant protected areas.
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IUCN’s work on World Heritage benefits and ecosystem services to help sustainability action
29.08.2017The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is undertaking pilot assessments of ecosystem services in two natural World Heritage sites in Uganda and Sri Lanka, as part of its Benefits of Natural World Heritage project. The aim is to test...
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Ivorian parks DG speaks on Comoé National Park’s removal from World Heritage ‘danger list’
25.07.2017A key decision of the World Heritage Committee in 2017 was the removal of Côte d’Ivoire’s Comoé National Park from the List of World Heritage in Danger, following IUCN’s advice. IUCN – the World Heritage Convention’s advisory body on nature – caught up with...
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The power of danger listing, hasty inscriptions, smarter financing and a voice for civil society – IUCN’s key takeaways from the 2017 World Heritage Committee meeting
12.07.2017As the 41stWorld Heritage Committee meeting closes today in Kraków, Poland, Tim Badman, Director of IUCN’s World Heritage Programme and head of the IUCN delegation at the Committee, shares his thoughts on how the meeting went this year.
Latest publications
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The advisory body "Our Common Dignity Initiative" on rights-based approaches in World Heritage: taking stock and looking forward
Larsen, Peter Bille, Sinding-Larsen, Amund
Language: En
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World heritage, wilderness, and large landscapes and seascapes
Badman, Tim, Bertzky, Bastian, Jaeger, Tilman, Kormos, Cyril F., Larsen, Peter Bille, Merm, Remco van, Osipova, Elena, Shi, Yichuan
Language: En
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