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Following the recommendations of 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 (International Union for Conservation of Nature), important rainforest areas in Madagascar and the Everglades National Park (USA) have been added to the List of World Heritage in Danger at the World Heritage annual meeting, currently taking place in Brasilia鈥
The World Heritage Committee decided to remove the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) from the List of World Heritage Sites in Danger, despite 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播麓s recommendation to the contrary.
Africa is under-represented in terms of World Heritage Sites, with only nine percent of overall sites located on the continent. Souayibou Varissou works with the African World Heritage Fund. He talks about what his organization is doing.
The 2,000 km long Great Barrier Reef of Australia is the largest World Heritage site in the world 鈥 it is roughly the size of Italy or Japan.
Deserts are not just arid, inhospitable places, they are unique and fragile environments and surprisingly full of life. But only a few deserts are World Heritage Sites, despite them covering one third of the earth鈥檚 land surface, says 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播.
香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播, along with the two other Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Convention, welcome a first step in exploring the critical issue of sustainable development for the World Heritage Convention at its annual meeting in Brasilia.
Day two of the Committee is underway. Allen Putney is Vice Chair of the 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 World Commission on Protected Areas听(WCPA) for World Heritage, and his role is a bit different from that of his 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 Secretariat colleagues.
香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播's Director General, Julia Marton-Lef猫vre, spoke at the opening of the World Heritage Convention's annual meeting in Brasilia. She drew attention to closer ties between the Convention's three advisory bodies.
World Rangers Day - a day to commemorate the many Rangers killed or injured in the line of duty.
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We can do nothing to bring the fallen Rangers back, but we can honour their memory and ensure their sacrifice is never forgotten.