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June 26 - July 8 39th Session of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee (Bonn, Germany)

One of the most important events of the year is took place in Bonn, Germany and we paid attention as these decisions are key to conserving some of our favorite places on the planet.

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Headlines
[|16th-century aqueduct honored by UNESCO - El Daily Post] [|Champagne: does it deserve Unesco World Heritage status? - Telegraph.co.uk] [|SA's Cape Floral World Heritage site supersizes its protection areas - News24] [|Isis militants destroy 2,000-year-old statue of lion at Palmyra] [|Unesco impotence takes shine off world heritage status] [|World Heritage Committee renews criticism of Tasmanian Government's forests plan] [|Colombian World Heritage site in conflict area comes off ‘danger list’, as advised by IUCN] [|Colombia’s Los Katíos National Park removed from List of Heritage in Danger - WHC] [|UNESCO urges protection of sites targeted for destruction - UN] [|Will the world accept the Alamo as sacred?] [|AWF Reiterates 'No Go' Policy in World Heritage Sites - AWF] - [|@AWF_Official] [|@kat_garrigan]

Key Links
[] [|http://whc.unesco.org/en/sessions/39com/documents] http://whc.unesco.org/en/sessions/39COM/records http://www.39whcbonn2015.de - http://www.39whcbonn2015.de/blog.html http://www.unite4heritage.org http://www.39whcbonn2015.de - http://www.39whcbonn2015.de/livewebcast.html - http://www.39whcbonn2015.de/press-material.html http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1303 previous days http://whc.unesco.org/en/sessions/39COM/records

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Wildlife Crime
From UNESCO

http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1240

The World Heritage Committee adopted Decision [|38 COM 7] in which it reiterated its utmost concern about the continued impacts on World Heritage properties due to rising pressure from poaching, particularly of elephant, rhinoceros, and valuable timber species, linked to a growing illicit trade, and the increasing involvement of organized crime in this lucrative business. The World Heritage Committee also urged the 191 States Parties to the World Heritage Convention to ensure strong international collaboration and coordination to control the illicit trade in flora and fauna and their products.

For many years, the Secretariat of CITES and UNESCO have joined their efforts to fight wildlife crimes, with the full support of the World Heritage Committee. Indeed, in 2014, it reiterated its request to the World Heritage Centre and IUCN to strengthen their cooperation with the Secretariat of the CITES, and also called upon the States Parties to the World Heritage Convention which are transit and destination countries for ivory and rhino horn, to support the States Parties concerned to halt the illegal trade in wildlife and its derivatives, in particular through the implementation of the CITES.

At its forthcoming [|39th session] (Bonn, Germany, 28 June – 8 July 2015), the World Heritage Committee will again examine the state of conservation of a number of natural World heritage properties threatened by wildlife crimes and will adopt the relevant decisions to ensure that the sites home to some of the most emblematic and threatened wildlife species are fully preserved.

Nominees
Sites nominated for inscription to the World Heritage List in 2015 Nominations for inscription on the World Heritage List this year include five natural sites, 30 cultural sites and one mixed site, i.e. both natural and cultural. Natural sites: 1. Cape Floral Region Protected Areas [extension of the property Cape Floral Region Protected Areas] (South Africa) 2. Sanganeb Marine National Park and Dungonab Bay - Mukkawar Island Marine National Park (Sudan) 3. Landscapes of Dauria (Mongolia/Russian Federation) 4. Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex (Thaïland) 5. Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park [extension of Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park] (Viet Nam) Mixed natural and cultural sites: 6. Blue and John Crow Mountains (Jamaica) Cultural sites: 7. Thimlich Ohinga Cultural Landscape (Kenya) 8. Nyero and other Hunter-Gatherer Geometric Rock-Art Sites in Eastern Uganda (Uganda) 9. Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” (Al-Maghtas) (Jordan) 10. Rock Art in the Hail Region of Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabia) 11. Tusi sites (China) 12. Susa (Islamic Republic of Iran) 13. Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining (Japan) 14. Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its Surrounding Sacred Landscape (Mongolia) 15. Baekje Historic Areas (Republic of Korea) 16. Singapore Botanical Gardens (Singapore) 17. Cultural Landscape of Maymand (Islamic Republic of Iran) 18. Christiansfeld, a Moravian Settlement (Denmark) 19. Par Force Hunting Landscape in North Zealand (Denmark) 20. Viking Age Sites in Northern Europe (Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Norway) 21. Climats, Terroirs of Burgundy (France) 22. Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars (France) 23. Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus (Germany) 24. Naumburg Cathedral and the Landscape of the Rivers Saale and Unstrut Territories of Power in the High Middle Ages (Germany) 25. Bet She’arim Necropolis – A Landmark of Jewish Renewal (Israël) 26. Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalú and Monreale ( Italy) 27. Rjukan – Notodden Industrial Heritage Site (Norway) 28. La Rioja and Rioja Alavesa Wine and Vineyard Cultural Landscape (Spain) 29. Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape (Turkey) 30. Forth Bridge (United Kingdom) 31. San Antonio Missions (United States) 32. Gelati Monastery [Significant boundary modification of “Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery”] (Georgia) 33. Routes of Santiago in Northern Spain [Extension of “Routes of Santiago de Compostela”] (Spain) 34. Ephesus (Turkey) 35. Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Renaissance Hydraulic Complex in America (Mexico) 36. Fray Bentos Cultural-Industrial Landscape (Uruguay)