High Seas

The Time Has Come to Protect the High Seas

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The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is proud to support the publication of a game-changing report by UNESCO and IUCN that illustrates how the World Heritage Convention can be used to protect special places on the High Seas. The …

World Heritage in the High Seas: An Idea Whose Time has Come

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By Fanny Douvere, Head of UNESCO’s World Heritage Marine Programme Sunken coral islands, floating rainforests, giant undersea volcanoes or even spires of rock resembling sunken cities: none of these sites can be inscribed on the World Heritage List because they …

World Heritage High Seas Report

Embodying our motto Science Without Borders®, the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation has supported the efforts of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre Marine Programme to identify ways in which World Heritage status could be used to protect outstanding places …