Papah膩naumoku膩kea in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands was added to the list of World Heritage sites by UNESCO鈥檚 World Heritage Committee, currently meeting in Brasilia. This is the first US site to be listed in 15 years. 听
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
Prospects for making the big changes needed to prepare for REDD-plus in Ghana.
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.
From Venzuela to Argentina natural World Heritage sites are attracting hundreds听of thousands of visitors per year.听But it's not all plain sailing with much still needed to be done to increase听public awareness听of why these听sites听merit World Heritage status.
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