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Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China
The Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China are a serial World Heritage Site inscribed in 2019 and 2024, protecting vital intertidal wetlands for migratory birds.
Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region (site)
Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region: transboundary mixed UNESCO World Heritage property (Albania, North Macedonia), inscribed 1979, extended 1980 and 2019, covering ancient Lake Ohrid, Ohrid town, and the Lin Peninsula; over 200 endemic species and severe eutrophication and development threats.
Ningde UNESCO Global Geopark
Ningde UNESCO Global Geopark (宁德联合国教科文组织世界地质公园), in Ningde City, northeastern Fujian, China; designated 2010, revalidated 2014 and 2018. Covers about 2,660–2,830 km² with Taimushan, Baishuiyang, Baiyunshan and other areas, known for miarolitic granite, volcanic landforms, and an 80,000 m² bedrock riverbed.
Pantanal Conservation Area
Pantanal Conservation Area: Brazilian World Heritage site (2000) of four protected areas, 187,818 ha, 1.3% of the Pantanal wetland; noted for jaguars, giant otters and flood-pulse ecology.
Paraty and Ilha Grande – Culture and Biodiversity (site)
Paraty and Ilha Grande – Culture and Biodiversity, a UNESCO mixed World Heritage Site inscribed in 2019 in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo states, Brazil, combines Paraty's colonial historic centre and Gold Route heritage with four Atlantic Forest protected areas holding exceptional endemism.
Pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island
Pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island (Pitons, cirques et remparts de l'île de La Réunion) is a French UNESCO World Heritage natural site, inscribed 2010 under criteria (vii) and (x), covering 105,838 ha or 40% of Réunion around Piton des Neiges and Piton de la Fournaise.
Qinghai Hoh Xil
Qinghai Hoh Xil, also known as Hoh Xil or Kekexili, is a high-altitude wilderness on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in China, a natural World Heritage Site since 2017.
Rainforests of the Atsinanana
Rainforests of the Atsinanana (Forêts humides de l'Atsinanana): serial World Heritage site of six national parks along eastern Madagascar, inscribed 2007, 479,660.7 ha, 80-90% endemism, on the danger list 2010-2025.
Saryarka – Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan
Saryarka – Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan: UNESCO natural World Heritage site (2008, criteria ix and x) in the Naurzum and Korgalzhyn State Nature Reserves, 450,344 ha of steppe and lakes, key Central Asian flyway stopover for up to 15-16 million birds and refuge of the saiga antelope.
Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries - Wolong, Mt Siguniang and Jiajin Mountains
Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries (四川大熊猫栖息地), also Wolong, Mt Siguniang and Jiajin Mountains: UNESCO natural World Heritage Site since 2006 in Sichuan, China, holding over 30% of wild giant pandas across 924,500 ha.
South China Karst
South China Karst (中国南方喀斯特) is a UNESCO World Heritage serial site of seven karst clusters in Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Chongqing, inscribed 2007 and 2014, protecting fenglin tower karst, fengcong cone karst, and Shilin stone forests over 97,125 hectares.
Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey
Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey: UNESCO World Heritage Site (1986) in North Yorkshire pairing a Cistercian abbey founded 1132, dissolved 1539, with the Aislabie family's 18th-century water garden, Fountains Hall, and St Mary's Church.
Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch, inscribed as Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn in 2001, is a Swiss natural UNESCO World Heritage site protecting the Alps' most glaciated region and the Aletsch, Europe's largest glacier.
Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park
Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park: transboundary UNESCO World Heritage site (Costa Rica 1983, Panama 1990), 570,045 ha, Cordillera de Talamanca, Cerro Chirripó 3,819 m, glacial landforms, high endemism.
Te Henua Enata – The Marquesas Islands (protected area)
Te Henua Enata – The Marquesas Islands: mixed serial UNESCO World Heritage property (inscribed 2024, France/French Polynesia) of seven components, 345,749 ha, honoring Ènata chiefdom culture and exceptional Pacific marine and terrestrial biodiversity.
Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand
Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand, a 1990 natural UNESCO World Heritage site (criteria vii–x) in the South Island's south-west, covering 2.6 million hectares across Fiordland, Mount Aspiring, Mount Cook and Westland national parks.
Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley: originary habitat of Mesoamerica (protected area)
Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley: originary habitat of Mesoamerica (Valle de Tehuacán-Cuicatlán) is a 2018 mixed UNESCO World Heritage Site in Puebla and Oaxaca, Mexico, with 145,255 ha of cactus forests, early plant domestication dating to 9500-7000 BC, and the continent's most diversified ancient irrigation complex.
The Flow Country
The Flow Country (Dùthaich nam boglaichean) is a blanket bog region in Caithness and Sutherland, Scotland, considered the world's largest and inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2024.
The par force hunting landscape in North Zealand
Parforcejagtlandskabet i Nordsjælland: Danish UNESCO World Heritage site (2015) of three royal Baroque hunting forests, Store Dyrehave, Gribskov, and Jægersborg, laid out by Christian V with star-and-grid rides for par force hunting until 1777.
Virgin Komi Forests
Virgin Komi Forests (Девственные леса Коми), Russian UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed 1995, dossier 719; 3.28 million ha of virgin boreal forest and Ural tundra in the Komi Republic, Europe's largest unfragmented old-growth taiga, threatened by gold mining.
Waitaki Whitestone UNESCO Global Geopark
Waitaki Whitestone UNESCO Global Geopark, New Zealand's first and only UNESCO Global Geopark, endorsed May 2023; 7,214 km² in the Waitaki District, South Island, with over 40 geosites including the Moeraki Boulders.
West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord
West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord: Norwegian UNESCO natural World Heritage site, inscribed 2005, criteria vii–viii; 122,712 ha serial property, type locality for fjords, zero-emission ship rules from 2026.
Western Tien-Shan
Western Tien-Shan: transnational UNESCO natural World Heritage site (inscribed 2016, criterion x) of 13 components across Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan; 503,122.9 ha, 700-4,503 m, centre of origin of fruit crops, Snow Leopard and Menzbier's Marmot habitat.
Wet Tropics of Queensland
Wet Tropics of Queensland: UNESCO World Heritage Area (inscribed 1988, criteria vii–x) of tropical rainforest along 450 km of northeast Queensland between Townsville and Cooktown, covering about 894,420 ha with exceptional Gondwanan relict flora and fauna.
Willandra Lakes Region (site)
The Willandra Lakes Region is a World Heritage protected area in far south-western New South Wales, Australia, preserving dry Pleistocene lakes and human remains about 40,000 years old.
Xinjiang Tianshan
Xinjiang Tianshan (新疆天山), a serial natural World Heritage Site inscribed in 2013 in China: four components (Tomur, Kalajun-Kuerdening, Bayinbukuke, Bogda) totaling 606,833 ha along 1,760 km of the eastern Tianshan, criteria (vii) and (ix).