La Amistad Reserves: Talamanca Cordillera Wilderness
A park named friendship, run by two countries as one: Talamanca’s cloud forests and Chirripó’s páramo summit, the binational wilderness UNESCO has listed since 1983.
Maloti-Drakensberg: San Rock Art and High Peaks
A 3,000-metre basalt wall with southern Africa’s greatest rock-art gallery at its feet: the Maloti-Drakensberg in four stops, from the Amphitheatre to Lesotho’s high plateau.
UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Pacific Islands
The Pacific Islands is home to 38 UNESCO World Heritage Sites across 14 countries, stretching from the ancient rock art of Australia’s Murujuga to the stone…
Phong Nha and Hin Nam No: Karst Caves of Indochina
The mountains are hollow: Phong Nha’s river caves, Paradise Cave’s boardwalked halls and Sơn Đoòng — the world’s largest cave passage — in the karst Vietnam now shares with Laos on one UNESCO listing.
Białowieża Forest: Primeval Woodland and European Bison
Europe’s last lowland primeval forest and the bison that came back from extinction: Białowieża, listed since 1979, one green block across the Polish–Belarusian border.
Heritage Impact Assessment: Principles and Process
A heritage impact assessment (HIA) is a systematic process for evaluating how a development project will affect a heritage asset, ranging from listed…
High Coast and Kvarken: Uplift Archipelago Heritage
The land that escapes the sea: Sweden’s stranded shorelines and Finland’s newborn islands, two faces of the world’s fastest post-glacial uplift, joined by a gulf ferry.
Pyrénées-Mont Perdu: Pastoral Landscapes and Canyons
One limestone massif, carved into canyons by Spain’s water and cirques by France’s ice — the shared Mont Perdu listing of 1997, circled in five stops around the frontier crest.
Lake Fertő-Neusiedl: Steppe Waters and Palaces
A waist-deep steppe lake with Europe’s great reed belt, a stork on every chimney and Haydn’s palace on the shore: the Austro-Hungarian lake circuit UNESCO listed in 2001.
Writing Heritage Grant Applications: A Practical Guide
A successful heritage grant application combines clear evidence of why conservation matters, a realistic plan for how work will proceed, and proof that your…