Press release | 20 Jun, 2011
More support needed to boost Arab natural World Heritage
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 IUCN report has found.
Story | 20 Jun, 2011
Tourism threatens World Heritage in Japan
There are three natural World Heritage Sites in Japan. But as in many other areas of the world, these sites are facing a range of challenges, the most important of which is tourism, according to Yoshida Masahito, Chair of the Japan National Committee for IUCN.
Story | 20 Jun, 2011
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.
Press release | 20 Jun, 2011
Manas Wildlife Sanctuary on the road to recovery
Manas Wildlife Sanctuary in the eastern Himalaya foothills of India has been removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger, following the advice of IUCN.
Story | 19 Jun, 2011
Multiple ocean stresses threaten “globally significant” marine extinction
An international panel of experts warns in a report released today that marine species are at risk of entering a phase of extinction unprecedented in human history.
Story | 18 Jun, 2011
Keep World Heritage standards high
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee opens its annual meeting in Paris today. The Committee will announce the new remarkable natural and cultural areas that have made it to the list of World Heritage Sites. A total of 42 sites are considered for inscription this year.
Press release | 15 Jun, 2011
The regal Arabian Oryx (Oryx leucoryx), which was hunted to near extinction, is now facing a more secure future according to the latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Its wild population now stands at 1,000 individuals.
Story | 15 Jun, 2011
Staving off the threats to Cameroon’s natural riches
The Dja Reserve in Cameroon is home to some of the largest and best protected rainforest tracts in Africa, with 90% of its area intact. It was inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1987, largely for the diversity of species found there but now faces several challenges, not least from mining.
Press release | 15 Jun, 2011
IUCN Pakistan celebrated the World Day to Combat Desertification
Karachi, June 16, 2011 (IUCN)
Story | 15 Jun, 2011
Mediterranean Reflections 2010
By the Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation - IUCN-Med