UNESCO World Heritage Marine Site Managers Conference 2016

At the beginning of September Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation Director of Communications, Alison Barrat, participated in the UNESCO World Heritage Marine Site Managers conference in the Galapagos Islands. The conference brought together managers of the most special marine …

UNESCO World Heritage Marine Site Managers Conference 2016

At the beginning of September Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation Director of Communications, Alison Barrat, participated in the UNESCO World Heritage Marine Site Managers conference in the Galapagos Islands. The conference brought together managers of the most special marine …

Sargasso Sea – Launch of the High Seas World Heritage Report

Last month in Bermuda, the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation headed out to sea with Dr. Fanny Douvere of the UNESCO Marine World Heritage Centre to officially launch the publication of “World Heritage in the High Seas: An Idea …

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 in the High Seas: An Idea Whose Time has Come

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 …