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People Protecting World Heritage
The World Heritage Convention was created in 1972 – nearly half a century ago – as a legal instrument to protect our most outstanding cultural and natural sites around the world. It has been adopted since by 194 countries, nearing universality. Concretely, the World Heritage Convention is implemented in myriad ways, big and small, by people around the world.
In this issue, we introduce you to numerous individuals who dedicate their careers – even their lives – to taking care of these precious and fragile sites. This includes site managers on the ground, young people who run projects for hands-on heritage conservation or awareness raising to save sites, and civil society activists who protect sites, and the people who live near them, in difficult conditions.
May 21, 2021
CFZM, Fisheries and Foundation to Promote Reef Resilience
The Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute, in partnership with the Fisheries Department and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, has launched the Resilient Reefs Initiative in Belize. It’s a global project created to support five of the world’s most valued World Heritage reef sites. The goal is to bring together local communities, reef managers, and resilience experts to build develop new solutions for combating the effects of climate change and other local threats. Next steps for the Initiative are stakeholder engagement and resilience assessment, to identify priorities for building resilience in Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System and coastal communities that depend on reef resources. Belize has named Kalene Eck to assume the role of Chief Resilience Officer. The Initiative has also committed over seven hundred thousand USD dollars to implement priority actions in Belize.
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UNESCO report supports crucial role of Great Barrier Reef Foundation’s Resilient Reefs Initiative
The Great Barrier Reef Foundation’s Resilient Reef sites are crucial blue carbon ecosystems which hold a third of the carbon dioxide stored across all 50 World Heritage marine sites, according to a new UNESCO report.
The report is UNESCO’s first global scientific assessment of blue carbon ecosystems across its World Heritage marine sites. Also known as carbon sinks, these ecosystems absorb carbon from the atmosphere and store it, helping reduce the rate of climate change.
UNESCO stresses the importance of initiatives such as the Great Barrier Reef Foundation’s Resilient Reefs Initiative – a global partnership to support World Heritage Reefs, and the communities that depend on them.