News
A strong IUCN delegation is attending this year’s meeting. Check here for the latest news reported directly from Brasilia and keep up to date with the most important developments of the meeting.
IUCN expanding Red List in Brazil
IUCN and the Instituto Chico Mendes para conservação da biodiversidade (ICMBio) today signed an agreement to build the Brazilian Red List of Threatened Species. … | Spanish
28 Jul 2010 | News story
World Heritage under threat - the Great Barrier Reef
The 2,000 km long Great Barrier Reef of Australia is the largest World Heritage site in the world – it is roughly the size of Italy or Japan. …
28 Jul 2010 | Article
World Heritage in Africa
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. …
28 Jul 2010 | Article
Deserts on the World Heritage List: Filling the gaps
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’s land surface, says IUCN. … | Spanish
27 Jul 2010 | International news release
World Heritage Convention and Sustainable Development
IUCN, 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. …
27 Jul 2010 | IUCN statement
World Heritage in Russia
Russia first signed up to UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention in the 1980s, but it wasn’t until 1995 that natural sites were first inscribed on the World Heritage List. Andrey Petrov, World Heritage Campaign Coordinator from Greenpeace Russia has been working on protecting Russia's natural resources since the early '90s. …
27 Jul 2010 | Audio
World Heritage in South America
From Venzuela to Argentina natural World Heritage sites are attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors per year. But it's not all plain sailing with much still needed to be done to increase public awareness of why these sites merit World Heritage status. …
26 Jul 2010 | News story
Sound science central to World Heritage success - IUCN DG
IUCN's Director General, Julia Marton-Lefèvre, 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. …
26 Jul 2010 | IUCN statement
World Heritage at work
Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park (CVNP) was created in 1961 and listed as a World Heritage Site by Unesco in 2001. Occupying an area of 655 km², it lies just over 200 km from the capital Brasilia, where the World Heritage Committee is holding its annual meeting. …
25 Jul 2010 | Article
Protecting our World Heritage
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee opened its annual meeting today in Brasilia. The Committee will add new outstanding natural and cultural places to the list of World Heritage sites. IUCN plays a key role in the meeting as the advisory body assessing natural sites and recommending new nominations to the World Heritage list. …
25 Jul 2010 | International news release
