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The IUCN Asia Regional Members Committee (ARMC) met in Haikou, Hainan Province, China, on 9-10 January under the chairmanship of Professor Ma Keping. The meeting was hosted by the Forestry Department of Hainan Province, China and the Biodiversity Committee of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and supported by the Ministry of Natural Resources, China.

The World Heritage Committee has enlarged natural World Heritage areas by more than 100 million hectares, an area roughly 26 times the size of Switzerland.

Paris, Aug 31 (Prensa Latina) UNESCO executives and experts advocated for a greater global effort in the protection of biodiversity during a presentation of a report on the situation of species in World Heritage sites.

Gland, Switzerland, 31 August 2023 – Over 20% of mapped global species richness are found in World Heritage sites, despite these areas making up just 1% of the Earth’s surface, according to a joint assessment by IUCN, International Union for Conservation Nature, and UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, published today.

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

New study finds human activity since 2001 has caused harm in even the world’s most protected forests.

The first ever scientific assessment of the amounts of greenhouse gases emitted from and absorbed by forests in UNESCO World Heritage sites has found

The protestors, who began demonstrating about 7.30am on Wednesday, want government action on climate change to get to net zero emmissions.