Human Footprint in natural World Heritage sites
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Messel Pit Fossil Site

Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany

The Wadden Sea

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This page provides additional site specific information in the recent publication titled: Recent increases in human pressure and forest loss threaten many Natural World Heritage Sites. This is the first global quantitative assessment of how humanity is negatively affecting natural World Heritage sites and here we provide crucial baseline information which is neccessary for their ongoing preservation.

Data sources

Human footprint 1993 and 2009

Natural World Heritage sites

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