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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