IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)

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1. Story
2. The advisory body for natural properties under the Convention, the counterpart to ICOMOS. IUCN evaluates natural and mixed nominations, reports on state of conservation, and is a persistent internal critic of the Committee's decisions — it publicly argued that the 2010 removal of the Galápagos Islands from the danger list was premature. Headquartered at Gland, Switzerland.
3. Knowledge
4. Okavango Delta
5. African lion (Panthera leo)
6. World Heritage Committee
7. IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)
8. Connections
9. Okavango Delta inscribed as the 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage site
10. Great Elephant Census reports 352,271 savanna elephants and a 30% decline
11. Okavango Delta
12. World Heritage Committee
13. African lion (Panthera leo)
14. Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA)
15. Five states sign the KAZA Transfrontier Conservation Area treaty
16. Okavango Delta inscribed as the 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage site
17. Coordinated KAZA aerial survey estimates about 227,900 elephants
18. IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)
19. Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List (1994)
20. Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972)
21. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
22. ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites)
23. IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)
24. The first properties are inscribed on the World Heritage List
25. Angkor inscribed on the World Heritage List and the danger list on the same day
26. The Committee adopts the Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List
27. The cultural and natural criteria are merged into a single set of ten
28. Arabian Oryx Sanctuary deleted — the first site ever removed from the World Heritage List
29. Dresden Elbe Valley deleted — the second removal, by a vote of 14 to 5
30. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City deleted — the third and most recent removal
31. The Committee declines, again, to place Venice on the danger list
32. Stonehenge
33. Hagia Sophia, Constantinople / Istanbul
34. Chartres Cathedral
35. Maasai Mara National Reserve
36. IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)
37. Evidence
38. On 28 July 2010 the World Heritage Committee removed the Galápagos Islands from the List of World Heritage in Danger, finding significant progress by Ecuador; IUCN and the Galápagos Conservancy publicly argued the removal was premature. ALSO: The Galápagos Islands were inscribed in 1978 and placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 2007 because of invasive species, unregulated tourism growth and overfishing.
39. Establishes the World Heritage List, the List of World Heritage in Danger, the 21-member World Heritage Committee, the World Heritage Fund, and names ICCROM, ICOMOS and IUCN as advisory bodies; asserts a duty on the international community as a whole to co-operate in protecting heritage of outstanding universal value while leaving sovereignty with the State Party.