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Towards a Revised Canadian Tentative List for World Heritage - Natural Properties

Contents:

1. Introduction and Objectives

2. Implications for Canada’s Revised Tentative List Relating to the Global Strategy and IUCN Thematic Studies

2a) Trends and Directions from the Global Strategy

2b) Trends and Directions from IUCN’s Global Thematic Studies

3. Framework For Preparing A Revised Tentative List

3a) Procedure for Preparing the Tentative List

3b) A Framework for Selecting Sites for the Tentative List

4. Factors Relating to the Selection of Natural Sites for the Revised Tentative List

4a) Expansion of Existing Natural World Heritage Sites

4b) Sites Remaining on the 1980 Tentative List

4c) A Note on Fossil Sites

4d) The Arctic as an “Under-represented” Region

4e) Rating of Natural Sites for the Revised Tentative List

4f) End Note

References

IUCN Fossil Site Evaluation Checklist

End Note

Consultations with provincial and territorial governments, which took place in 2003, elicited more suggestions, such as the boreal forest site jointly proposed by Manitoba and Ontario with full support of the local First Nations. An IUCN global study of boreal forests completed in 2003 confirmed the significance of this proposal. They were all passed through the same “sieve” and evaluated by Mr. Thorsell. Sites that had not been supported by the province or the territory concerned were not retained. The Minister’s Advisory Committee had the difficult task to reduce the number of natural sites which would be included in the Tentative List.