Tasmania

Forests are a gift entrusted to us......to be passed as a sacred patrimony from generation to generation

Baron Ferdinand Von Mueller, Tasmania, 1880s

Global forest site data for above-ground biomass carbon (tC·ha−1) in relation to latitude (north or south).

Keith H et al. PNAS 2009;106:11635-11640

©2009 by National Academy of Sciences

Australia's old growth

eucalypt forests

State party (country) must be a signatory to the World Heritage Convention

Property must be 'inventoried' on the Tentative List

State party submits nomination to World Heritage Committee

World Heritage advisory bodies (ICOMOS and IUCN) assess the nomination

World Heritage Committee decides on inscription

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