16. Australia Total number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: 20 Natural: 12, Cultural: 4, Mixed: 4 Great Barrier Reef (natural) Kakadu National Park (mixed) Willandra Lakes Region (mixed) Lord Howe Island Group (natural) Tasmanian Wilderness (mixed) Gondwana Rainforests of Australia (natural) Ul...
For starters, World Heritage Sites must be nominated by their home country, and meet at least one of ten defined criteria. It can be a masterpiece of "human creative genius," or it can be the most important habitat for a specific animal. ...
1. Citizens and Perma- nent Residents of Australia, and citizens of New Zealand are ineligible. 2. Applicants who have applied for Australian permanent residency status, but have not yet received an outcome, can apply. 3. Successful recipients are required to apply and enrol in their intended ...
The proposal required a rigorous selection of cave art sites, which meant that several criteria had to be applied: numerical proportionality between the three autonomous communities, archaeological representa- tiveness of the art ensembles, and the quality of the conserva- tion and management of ...
A multi-criteria risk analysis to identify and to rank the most critical UNESCO World Heritage Sites (WHSs) in Europe was implemented in the framework of t
The geoheritage assessment was conducted based on scientific value, educational potential, tourism attraction, and degradation criteria. A comparison with the four priority actions of the Sendai Framework was then made to determine the 21 geosites that have educational potential and may play a role of...
Natural heritage sites cover a broader range of criteria, including areas that host habitats for rare or endangered animals or plants. Meanwhile mixed heritage sites are areas that contain elements of both natural and cultural importance. The designation of World Heritage Site status is not irreve...
UNESCO World Heritage List criteria UNESCO World Heritage Sites 2020/2021: UNESCO has announced some of the new additions to its list of World Heritage Sites. Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China, pictured here, is one of the new spots on the list. Wei Peiquan/Xinhua/Alamy...
These landforms have witnessed a wide geodiversity and serve as ideal sites for studying geodiversity and geoheritage. However, the quantitative assessment of the geodiversity of Danxiashan UGGp has not yet been conducted at present. In this study, the criteria for analytical assessment were ...
New UNESCO sites: The World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) added 29 new sites to its prestigious World Heritage List at its July 2019 meeting. Among its designations was the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape Tae Rak in Australia, ...