For the first time, all species of scombrids (tunas, bonitos, mackerels and Spanish mackerels) and billfishes (swordfish and marlins) have been assessed for the 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 Red List of Threatened Species鈩. Of the 61 known species, seven are classified in a threatened category, being at serious risk of鈥
Paris, France, 29 June, 2011.聽Four outstanding natural sites in Kenya, Jordan, Australia and Japan were given World Heritage status following the advice of 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播聽to the World Heritage Committee, which closes today in Paris. An extension to an existing World Heritage Site in Ukraine and Slovakia鈥
The first is now open, accepting Threatened Species and Rapid Action Grants. Deadline for applications is August 12, 2011.聽
Poverty and environmental degradation go hand-in-hand throughout the world; each can cause the other. With the global population likely to reach nine billion by 2050 there is an urgent need to address both in tandem when devising new economic development models.
The Lakes System in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, the Ningaloo Coast in Australia and the Ogasawara Islands in Japan have been inscribed on the World Heritage List, following the recommendations of 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播.
The Wadi Rum Protected Area in Jordan has been declared a World Heritage Site, becoming the 211th natural site to join UNESCO鈥檚 prestigious list.
香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 and partners聽have completed the development of a national gender strategy for Egypt. The 鈥淣ational Strategy for Mainstreaming Gender in Climate Change in Egypt鈥 was completed in Spring, with 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 in its role as a leading member of the Global Gender and Climate Alliance.
With only two natural sites added to the World Heritage List in 15 years there is a need to review the process of nominating natural World Heritage Sites in Arab States, a new 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 report has found.
Wadi Al-Hitan, Whale Valley, in the Western Desert of Egypt, is Egypt's only natural World Heritage Site. It contains invaluable fossil remains of the earliest, and now extinct, suborder of whales: Archaeoceti.