Terrestrial Biodiversity and the World Heritage List

This study reviews the biogeographic and biodiversity coverage of the current World Heritage network and identifies broad gaps. It also identifies priority sites for biodiversity conservation that may merit World Heritage listing in the future and reviews how these could help fill the existing ga...

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Field	Value
Source	https://resources.unep-wcmc.org/products/WCMC_RT348
Author	UNEP-WCMC
Maintainer	UNEP-WCMC
Last Updated	March 9, 2023, 14:16 (UTC)
Created	March 9, 2023, 12:15 (UTC)
GUID	unep-wcmc-rsrc-report-wcmc_rt348
Issued	2023-03-09T01:01:28.309Z
Language	en
Modified	2023-03-09T01:01:28.309Z
Publisher email	info@unep-wcmc.org
Publisher name	UNEP-WCMC
Theme	Report
avg_rating	2
citation	Bertzky, B., Shi, Y., Hughes, A., Engels, B., Ali, M.K. and Badman, T. (2013) Terrestrial Biodiversity and the World Heritage List: Identifying broad gaps and potential candidate sites for inclusion in the natural World Heritage network. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, UK. xiv + 70pp. Available at: https://resources.unep-wcmc.org/products/ WCMC_RT348
data_type	webpage
date_published	2013-01-01
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license	copyright
num_views	0
short_description	The overarching purpose of this study is to assist in the preparation and evaluation of natural and mixed World Heritage nominations that have, from a global conservation perspective, a high potential to meet the ‘biodiversity criteria’ (ix) and/or (x) of the World Heritage Convention.