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All rivers within Selous Game Reserve belong to the Rufiji system, Tanzania's largest basin Photo: IUCN / Tilman Jaeger

IUCN-outsourced paper finds no proof Rufiji dam project can meet Tanzania’s development needs
L-R: Junya Yamaguchi, Juan Carlos Barientos, Elena Osipova, Katherine Zischka, Mizuki Murai, Tilman Jaeger, Peter Shadie, Youssouph Diedhiou, Thierry Lefebvre, Cyril Kormos, Jamili Nais Photo: IUCN

The world’s biggest site, overruled advice, danger-listing a disincentive, mixed messages for Indigenous Peoples – IUCN’s key takeaways from the 2019 World Heritage Committee meeting
Sangha Trinational, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo Photo: IUCN / Hervé Lévite

Hundreds of assessors and reviewers to take part in the IUCN World Heritage Outlook 3
The Gulf of California in Mexico is the only place on Earth where the vaquita can be found Photo: SEMARNAT (public domain)

The looming extinction of the vaquita puts Gulf of California on World Heritage danger list
Erta Ale, Ethiopia Photo: Jens-Wolfram Erben

IUCN report makes new proposals for listing World Heritage volcanoes
Hippos in the Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania Photo: IUCN / Mizuki Murai

Selous reserve could lose World Heritage status if dam project goes ahead – IUCN
The Sundarbans in Bangladesh is part of the world’s largest mangrove forest, lying on the delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers and bordering India’s Sundarbans National Park, also a World Heritage site. Photo: IUCN / Mizuki Murai

IUCN advises “in danger” status for three World Heritage sites
Terres et mers australes françaises, France Photo: IUCN / Wendy Strahm

Huge sub-Antarctic area among five sites recommended by IUCN for World Heritage List
Photo: IUCN

IUCN reviews nine new World Heritage nominations for 2019

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IUCN-outsourced paper finds no proof Rufiji dam project can meet Tanzania’s development needs

The world’s biggest site, overruled advice, danger-listing a disincentive, mixed messages for Indigenous Peoples – IUCN’s key takeaways from the 2019 World Heritage Committee meeting

Hundreds of assessors and reviewers to take part in the IUCN World Heritage Outlook 3

The looming extinction of the vaquita puts Gulf of California on World Heritage danger list

IUCN report makes new proposals for listing World Heritage volcanoes

Selous reserve could lose World Heritage status if dam project goes ahead – IUCN

IUCN advises “in danger” status for three World Heritage sites

Huge sub-Antarctic area among five sites recommended by IUCN for World Heritage List

IUCN reviews nine new World Heritage nominations for 2019

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