World Heritage Sites: A Complete Guide to 878 UNESCO World Heritage SitesUpdated for 2010, this guide fully describes every official UNESCO World Heritage site. In 1959, UNESCO launched an international campaign to safeguard the world's most important sites, which led to the first World Heritage List. In clear text that highlights all the fascinating facts, this revised edition of World Heritage Sites details all 890 properties, including the 13 new sites added in 2009. Covering 148 countries, the World Heritage List has proved to be a valuable tool in the battle to preserve much of the world's cultural and natural heritage. Its strict criteria result in only the world's most spectacular and extraordinary sites making it onto the list, including:
The new sites added to this edition are:
Featuring gorgeous photographs and updated maps, World Heritage Sites is uniquely comprehensive. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded in 1945 with the ambitious goal to build peace in the minds of men and women through education, social and natural science, culture and communication. |
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... rainforest in the world , large areas of warm temperate rainforest and almost all of the Antarctic beech cool temperate rainforest . Although rainforests cover only about 0.3 per cent of Australia , they contain about half of all ...
... rainforest is dominated by dense stands of tall podocarps . The wetter , milder west is characterized by luxuriant rainforest and wetlands ; the drier , more continental east has more open forest , shrublands and tussock grasslands ...
... Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra ASIA Pacific Ocean Indonesia Criteria - Natural phenomena or beauty ; Significant ecological and biological processes ; Significant natural habitat for biodiversity The 25,000 km2 Tropical Rainforest ...