Luke Chamberlain from Australia shared his experience on how public engagement helped Wilderness Australia to designate the Tasmanian Forest Wilderness as UNESCO World Heritage Site and later to protect it from delisting!

1. Tasmania

8. Forests are a gift entrusted to us......to be passed as a sacred patrimony from
generation to generation
Baron Ferdinand Von Mueller,
Tasmania, 1880s

15. Global forest site data for above-ground biomass carbon (tC·ha−1) in relation to latitude (north
or south).
Keith H et al. PNAS 2009;106:11635-11640
©2009 by National Academy of Sciences
Australia's
old growth
eucalypt
forests

16.  State party (country) must be a signatory to the World Heritage Convention
 Property must be 'inventoried' on the Tentative List
 State party submits nomination to World Heritage Committee
 World Heritage advisory bodies (ICOMOS and IUCN) assess the nomination
 World Heritage Committee decides on inscription

26. Thank you

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