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IUCN strives to mobilise its wide networks of experts and partners to support the conservation of natural World Heritage sites. You can help us in our mission in several ways, as outlined below.

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Contribute to the IUCN World Heritage Outlook

The IUCN World Heritage Outlook assesses all listed natural World Heritage sites. You can help us improve it by sharing your knowledge of natural World Heritage sites.

  • Provide feedback on the accuracy of Conservation Outlook Assessments, either by leaving your comments on the website or emailing us.
  • Register interest in participating in the next consultation process for the IUCN World Heritage Outlook consultation process, estimated to take place in 2024. To do so, download the dedicated consultation form (available in English, French, Spanish and Russian) and email it to us.
worldheritageoutlook.iucn.org

Submit information on natural World Heritage sites

Submit information on natural World Heritage sites affected by threats

Each year, IUCN prepares State of Conservation (SoC) reports for about 60 of the most threatened natural and mixed World Heritage sites in collaboration with UNESCO and ICOMOS. You can help us by submitting information on these sites. Download the IUCN World Heritage Soc Consultation Form (see links to the right) and email it to whconservation@iucn.org.

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IUCN World Heritage experts

Tim Badman at 41WHC © fot. Bartłomiej Banaszak, Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa_850

Tim Badman

Head IUCN Heritage and Culture Team

Tim Badman is Head of the Heritage and Culture at IUCN, having served as Director of the IUCN World Heritage Programme since 2009 and Director of the IUCN Nature ...

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Head IUCN Heritage and Culture Team

Tim Badman is Head of the Heritage and Culture at IUCN, having served as Director of the IUCN World Heritage Programme since 2009 and Director of the IUCN Nature-Culture Initiative in 2019-2020. He is chair of the IUCN World Heritage Panel and heads IUCN’s delegation at World Heritage Committee meetings. Tim joined IUCN having worked as team leader of the Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site, UK. This role culminated in inscription of the site on the World Heritage List in 2001, and the subsequent development of the World Heritage programme on-site. He has been involved in many World Heritage site evaluation and monitoring issues globally. 

 

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EXPERTISE: Effective protected areas, Tourism and sport, World heritage
Mizuki Murai

Mizuki Murai

Senior Programme Coordinator World Heritage

Mizuki joined IUCN in 2015 and oversees IUCN’s work on World Heritage. She is the deputy head of IUCN’s delegation at World Heritage Committee meetings ...

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Senior Programme Coordinator World Heritage

Mizuki joined IUCN in 2015 and oversees IUCN’s work on World Heritage. She is the deputy head of IUCN’s delegation at World Heritage Committee meetings, and is the contact point on World Heritage matters. In her previous position in the team, she specialised in the monitoring the state of conservation of natural sites in Asia, East and Southern Africa and North America, and was the thematic lead on industrial commitments including extractives, infrastructures, renewable energy as well as on impact assessments. Prior to joining IUCN she worked for several national and international organisations in Central Africa, Central America and Europe, focusing on protected area management and wildlife monitoring. Mizuki is currently based in Cambridge, UK.

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EXPERTISE: Extractive, energy and infrastructure, Species conservation action, Transboundary water governance and diplomacy, World heritage
Katherine Zischka, World Heritage Conservation Officer

Katherine Zischka

World Heritage Conservation Officer

Since 2019, Kathy coordinates IUCN’s statutory Advisory Body work on monitoring the state of conservation of natural and mixed World Heritage sites under the ...

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World Heritage Conservation Officer

Since 2019, Kathy coordinates IUCN’s statutory Advisory Body work on monitoring the state of conservation of natural and mixed World Heritage sites under the World Heritage Convention. She has experience in a range of environmental conservation areas including marine research, international environmental law, ecotourism, policy and management. Kathy has worked in non-government organisations, ecotourism, government and academia including in Australia, Europe and the Pacific, and is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA). She has a BSc (Hons) in marine and environmental biology and Master of environmental management, with a focus on international environmental governance. 

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EXPERTISE: Marine ecosystems, Plastic and other pollution, Tourism and sport, World heritage
Clemens Küpper, World Heritage

Clemens Küpper

Evaluations and Operations Officer

Clemens Küpper joined IUCN in 2020 as Evaluations and Operations Officer for the World Heritage Programme. He is responsible for coordinating the technical ...

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Evaluations and Operations Officer

Clemens Küpper joined IUCN in 2020 as Evaluations and Operations Officer for the World Heritage Programme. He is responsible for coordinating the technical evaluation of new candidate sites nominated to the World Heritage List, as part of IUCN’s role as advisory body on natural World Heritage. He coordinates IUCN’s “upstream” support, provided directly to States Parties before the preparation or submission of a nomination. Before IUCN, Clemens worked at UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre in Paris, where he monitored the state of conservation of natural and mixed World Heritage sites in Europe and North America in close cooperation with IUCN. He studied geography in Bonn, London and Edinburgh and speaks German, English and French. 

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EXPERTISE: Indigenous peoples, World heritage
Matthew Emslie Smith, World Heritage Monitoring Officer

Matthew Emslie Smith

World Heritage Monitoring Officer

Matthew joined IUCN in May 2019 as part of the then-called World Heritage Programme to support the preparation of the IUCN World Heritage Outlook, published in ...

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World Heritage Monitoring Officer

Matthew joined IUCN in May 2019 as part of the then-called World Heritage Programme to support the preparation of the IUCN World Heritage Outlook, published in December 2020, which he now leads on within the secretariat. He is the regional focal point on monitoring the state of conservation of natural and mixed World Heritage sites under the World Heritage Convention in Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Oceania, and is also thematic lead on climate change and nature-based solutions, fire and benefits. Prior to this, he worked in Central Asia on issues of governance and infrastructure development surrounding protected and conserved areas. Hailing from Dundee, Scotland, he holds a B.Sc in Zoology from the University of St Andrews, and an M.Sc in Conservation Science and Policy from the University of Exeter.

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EXPERTISE: Climate change impacts on nature, Nature-based solutions for climate, World heritage
Paul Ngafack

Paul Ngafack

World Heritage Monitoring Officer

Paul Ngafack is the World Heritage Monitoring Officer at IUCN. He is the regional focal point for West & Central Africa and North America. Before joining IUCN ...

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World Heritage Monitoring Officer

Paul Ngafack is the World Heritage Monitoring Officer at IUCN. He is the regional focal point for West & Central Africa and North America. Before joining IUCN, Paul was the Programme Coordinator for African Marine Mammal Conservation Organization, Sub-Regional Project Officer with Birdlife International and most recently he was Technical Support for Africa at the Secretariat of Ramsar Convention. Paul is a member of the IUCN Marine Turtle Specialist Group and a former member of the Advisory Committee of the Society for Marine Mammalogy. Paul holds a B.Sc in Zoology, and an M.Sc in Applied Ecology and Wildlife Management. He has also attended the Marine Conservation Summer Institute at Duke University in the United States.

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Eugene Jo, World Heritage Leadership Programme

Eugene Jo

Programme Coordinator - World Heritage Leadership

Eugene Jo is the Programme Coordinator for the joint IUCN/ICCROM World Heritage Leadership Programme. She joined ICCROM in 2017 and is based in ...

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Programme Coordinator - World Heritage Leadership

Eugene Jo is the Programme Coordinator for the joint IUCN/ICCROM World Heritage Leadership Programme. She joined ICCROM in 2017 and is based in Rome. Her main tasks include coordinating various activities for the overall programme, such as integrating the Resource Manual on managing natural and cultural World Heritage and Disaster Risk Management, and enhancing the connection between sites and people by coordinating learning sites and leadership networks. Prior to her current position she has worked on various different areas of World Heritage at the national level. She was the World Heritage Focal Point for the Republic of Korea for nine years at the Cultural Heritage Administration, and has held staff and consultancy positions to various Korean entities. She also served as Rapporteur of the World Heritage Committee in 2016. Eugene holds an MA in Cultural Heritage Studies, a BA in Korean History and is currently completing her PhD in World Heritage Studies at Konkuk University in Seoul.

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EXPERTISE: Disaster risk reduction, Rights-based approaches, World heritage

IUCN World Heritage advisers

WCPA Vice Chair for World Heritage

Cyril Kormos

Vice-Chair for World Heritage, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas

Cyril Kormos is Vice-Chair for World Heritage within IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas, a role ...

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Vice-Chair for World Heritage, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas

Cyril Kormos is Vice-Chair for World Heritage within IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas, a role he has served since 2012. He is Executive Director at Wild Heritage, a project of Earth Island Institute. He sits on the IUCN WCPA Steering Committee, chairs the IUCN WCPA World Heritage Network and serves as the NGO liaison to the IUCN team working on World Heritage. Cyril is also a member of the editorial board for IUCN WCPA’s PARKS journal as well as an associate editor for the International Journal of Wilderness. He holds a B.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.Sc. in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics and a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School. He is based in Berkeley, California, USA.

 
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EXPERTISE: Forests, World heritage
World Heritage Adviser

Tilman Jaeger

Programme Adviser, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas

Tilman Jaeger is a World Heritage Adviser for IUCN. He has been an active contributor to IUCN’s World Heritage ...

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Programme Adviser, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas

Tilman Jaeger is a World Heritage Adviser for IUCN. He has been an active contributor to IUCN’s World Heritage efforts since 2009, including through numerous monitoring and evaluation missions across the world and as a regular member of the IUCN Delegation to the sessions of the World Heritage Committee. Tilman is a forester by training who earned a Master's Degree focusing on landscape change in the Central African Republic and another one on indigenous resource use in protected areas in Asia. A longstanding member of two of IUCN’s Commissions, the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) and the Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP), he spent a decade as a staff member of the United Nations, GIZ and IUCN respectively, prior to serving as an independent Advisor and Consultant since 2012. His work has taken him to a wide range of political and cultural settings working with national, bi-lateral and inter-governmental institutions as well as non-governmental organisations, Indigenous Peoples and local communities. He is also a Member of the IUCN Task Force on Primary Forests.

 
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