The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

The Leuser Ecosystem is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northern Sumatra and one of the largest single continuous blocks of tropical rainforest left in the whole of south-east Asia. It is also ...

By Aimee Gabay Parties members of the European People’s Party (EPP), a large center-right political party, received political ...

Southeast Asia’s tropical forests are renowned for their biodiversity, but at the same time face significant threats from the ...

Sumatra, and Borneo, three of the world’s six largest islands. These regions are biodiversity hotspots, collectively hosting the largest stretch of tropical rainforest outside the Amazon and the ...

Having examined Document WHC-14/38.COM/7A, Recalling Decision 37 COM 7A.14, adopted at its 37th session (Phnom Penh, 2013), Commends the State Party for the development of an Emergency Action Plan, ...

Indiana Law Review 38(3): 595–617. Hitchcock, P. and K. Meyers. 2006. Report on the IUCN-UNESCO World Heritage Monitoring Mission to the Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra, Indonesia. Gland: ...

Typically, closely related animal species have difficulty coexisting because they are competing for similar resources. Despite eating the same figs, binturong, small-toothed palm, masked palm, and ...

As fires rage in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, the south-east Asian nation ... in Indonesia - home to some of the world's oldest tropical forests - bringing with it its worst annual fire season ...