Get involved
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.
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.
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.
Contact the IUCN World Heritage team
Tim Badman
Head, IUCN Heritage, Culture and Youth team
Tim Badman is Head of the Heritage, Culture and Youth team in IUCN, having served as Director of the IUCN World Heritage Programme since 2009 and ...
Peter Shadie
Senior Adviser on World Heritage
Peter Shadie is IUCN's Senior Adviser on World Heritage, based in IUCN headquarters in Gland, Switzerland. He served as Ad-Interim Director of the IUCN World ...
Mizuki Murai
World Heritage Conservation Officer, Partnerships
Mizuki Murai is World Heritage Conservation Officer at IUCN. She is the regional focal point for East and Southern Africa, North America and Asia ...
Katherine Zischka
World Heritage Conservation Officer
Katherine (Kathy) Zischka is World Heritage Conservation Officer at IUCN. She leads on the coordination of IUCN's work on monitoring the state of conservation of ...
Matthew Emslie Smith
World Heritage Monitoring Officer
Matthew Emslie Smith is World Heritage Monitoring Officer at IUCN and leads on the IUCN World Heritage Outlook. He is the regional focal point for Central Eastern ...
Clemens Küpper
Evaluations and Operations Officer
Clemens Küpper is IUCN's Evaluations and Operations Officer for World Heritage. He leads on IUCN's evaluations of World Heritage nominations, upstream support to ...
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 ...
Célia Zwahlen
Communications Officer for World Heritage
Célia is a communications professional with over 15 years of experience. She has led on communications for IUCN's work on World Heritage since 2013. She ...
IUCN World Heritage advisers
Bastian Bertzky
World Heritage Science Adviser
Bastian Bertzky is a World Heritage Science Adviser for IUCN. He worked in the World Heritage team at IUCN Headquarters from 2005 to 2009, initially carrying out the ...
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 ...
Tilman Jaeger
Programme Adviser, IUCN World Heritage Programme
Tilman Jaeger is a World Heritage Adviser for IUCN. He has been an active contributor to IUCN’s World Heritage efforts since ...
IUCN World Heritage regional focal points
East Africa – IUCN East Africa Regional Office (Kenya)
Leo Niskanen
Technical Coordinator - Conservation Areas & Species Diversity
leo.niskanen@iucn.org
Youssouph Diedhiou
Protected Areas Officer
youssouph.diedhiou@iucn.org
http://www.papaco.org/
José Courrau
Senior Officer, Protected Areas
jose.courrau@iucn.org
Melissa Marín
Oficial Técnica (Cambio Climático)
melissa.marin@iucn.org
Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (Bahrain)
Tabe’a programme: arcwh.org/tabea-program