Wadden Sea inscribed on the World
Heritage List
26
June 2009 The
Dutch-German Wadden Sea is now on the same footing as other world famous
natural wonders on the World Heritage List like the Grand Canyon in the
USA and the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. On 26 June 2009, the Wadden
Sea has been inscribed on the List by the UNESCO
World Heritage
Committee at its meeting in Seville
(Decision 33 COM 8B.4)
On
behalf of the State Parties of the Netherlands and Germany, Jens
Enemark (third from left) of the Common Wadden Sea Secretariat
expressed his gratitude to the Committee for this decision. “We are
proud to be part of the global community of World Heritage sites, but at
the same time we are aware of the responsibility that is placed upon us
to protect and sustainably manage its outstanding universal values, now
and for generations to come” he said.
The
Wadden Sea World Heritage Site encompasses the Dutch and German parts of
the Wadden Sea. It covers an area of almost 10,000 square kilometers
along a coastal strip about 400 kilometers long. The Wadden Sea has had
a protected status for more than 20 years, in Germany, as national parks
and in the Netherlands, as nature reserves. The fact that the area has
now become a World Heritage Site is largely due to the support over many
years of local inhabitants, many organisations and government
authorities.
The
Wadden Sea has had a protected status for more than 20 years, in
Germany, as national parks and in the Netherlands, as nature reserves.
The fact that the area has now become a World Heritage Site is largely
due to the support over many years of local inhabitants, many
organisations and government authorities.
More information (in English - Dutch -
German) at
www.waddensea-worldheritage.org
Meeting of the World Heritage Committee
On 22 - 30 June
2009, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee will meet in Seville (Spain)
to review state of conservation of 178 sites and add new sites on the
List. Thirty new properties in total were submitted for inscription on
the World Heritage List in 2009: 4 natural (one of them the Dutch-German
Wadden Sea), 23 cultural and 3 mixed (i.e. both natural and cultural)
properties, including 4 transnational nominations. In addition, 7
extensions to properties already listed have been proposed.
More information:
http://whc.unesco.org/en/sessions/33com
Requested Supplementary
Information delivered to IUCN
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March 2009
Following the field mission and the meeting of the IUCN World Heritage
Panel in December 2008, the IUCN requested additional information on the
Wadden Sea World Heritage Nomination dossier. To meet this request the
Supplementary Information was submitted to the World Heritage Center at
the UNESCO in Paris on 27 February 2009.
The
Supplementary Information includes six appendices with additional
information on subjects entailed in the nomination dossier. It
encompasses slightly revised boundaries of the nomination area to
exclude oil and gas, and military activities to maintain the integrity
of the nominated property. In the overview of the appendices in the
Supplementary information can be found on the contents of the each of
the six appendices.
The
IUCN World Heritage Panel meets again in the 3rd week of
March.
A final report is prepared and will be forwarded to the World Heritage
Centre in May 2009 for distribution to the members of the World Heritage
Committee which makes the final decision on whether or not to inscribe
the property on the World Heritage List
at its
annual session in Sevilla, Spain at the end of June 2009.
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