protecting wilderness and unesco world heritage through public engagement
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Luke Chamberlain from Australia shared his experience on how public engagement helped Wilderness Australia to designate the Tasmanian Forest Wilderness as UNESCO World Heritage Site and later to protect it from delisting!TRANSCRIPT
Tasmania
Forests are a gift entrusted to us......to be passed as a sacred patrimony from generation to generation
Baron Ferdinand Von Mueller, Tasmania, 1880s
Global forest site data for above-ground biomass carbon (tC·ha−1) in relation to latitude (north or south).
Keith H et al. PNAS 2009;106:11635-11640
©2009 by National Academy of Sciences
Australia's old growth
eucalypt forests
State party (country) must be a signatory to the World Heritage Convention
Property must be 'inventoried' on the Tentative List
State party submits nomination to World Heritage Committee
World Heritage advisory bodies (ICOMOS and IUCN) assess the nomination
World Heritage Committee decides on inscription
Thank you
Thank you
