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Ocean Acidification: A Worldwide Look at Present and Future Actions

Ocean Acidification: A Worldwide Look at Present and Future Actions

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IUCN statement on the inscription of Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex onto the World Heritage List
Photo: Célia Zwahlen

IUCN’s call for action on fast-deteriorating Great Barrier Reef backed, despite no danger listing
Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo Photo: IUCN / Hervé Lethier

Salonga National Park in DR Congo removed from World Heritage in Danger List
Golden snub-nosed monkey in Hubei Shennongjia, a World Heritage site in China Photo: IUCN / Bruce Jefferies

IUCN urges countries to protect World Heritage to achieve ambitions for halting biodiversity loss
Great Barrier Reef, Australia Photo: Yanguang Lan on Unsplash

Four sites including Great Barrier Reef could become “World Heritage in danger”, while Selous may lose its status – IUCN advice
Amami-Oshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, Northern part of Okinawa Island, and Iriomote Island, Japan Photo: IUCN / Ulrika Åberg

IUCN recommends two biodiversity sites in Georgia and Japan for the World Heritage List
Photo: TED

Why are glaciers important and how can we protect them?
Great Barrier Reef, Australia Photo: Kristin Hoel / Unsplash

Climate change now top threat to natural World Heritage – IUCN report
Photo: Photo: Frans Lanting/National Geographic Creative

Webinar: IUCN World Heritage Outlook 3
Norway Rat in the French Austral Lands and Seas, a World Heritage site in the subantarctic region Photo: IUCN / Wendy Strahm

Invasive alien species may be a bigger threat to natural World Heritage than previously thought

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