{"id":7295,"date":"2017-07-17T07:20:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T07:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/?p=7295\/"},"modified":"2017-07-17T07:20:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T07:20:02","slug":"slovenian-natural-sites-unescos-world-heritage-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/slovenian-natural-sites-unescos-world-heritage-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovenian Natural Sites on UNESCO\u2019s World Heritage List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Each year the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) convenes to determine which sites will be granted <a href=\"http:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Heritage<\/a> status in recognition of their outstanding value to humanity.\u00a0At the 41st session of its World Heritage Committee, meeting in Krakow, the UNESCO has inscribed <a class=\"external-link-new-window\" title=\"Zunanja povezava odpre novo okno\" href=\"http:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/news\/1686\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">63 new areas of ancient and primeval beech forest in 10 countries on the World Heritage List<\/a>.\u00a0Among them are two areas in Slovenia: the Krokar virgin forest and the Sne\u017enik-\u017ddrocle forest reserve.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Slovenia offers an outstanding patchwork of biological, geographical and cultural diversity, with dozens of major natural assets and items of significant European cultural heritage and UNESCO world heritage sites. Almost 50 % of Slovenia\u2019s territory is covered by protected natural areas, and almost 15,000 aspects of the country\u2019s nature have been awarded the status \u201cvaluable natural feature\u201d. The UNESCO World Heritage List is of the utmost importance for cultural and natural heritage. Four\u00a0Slovenian gems shine on the global map of 1,000 heritage units:\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.park-skocjanske-jame.si\/eng\/\">\u0160kocjan Caves<\/a><\/u>\u00a0as a unique natural monument, the\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitljubljana.com\/en\/activities\/nature-active-holidays\/15801\/detail.html\">prehistoric pile-dwellings around the Alps<\/a><\/u>, the\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/visit-idrija.si\/en\/85\/sights-of-unesco\/closeup\/\">heritage of Mercury in Idrija<\/a><\/u>\u00a0and now the <a href=\"http:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/news\/1686\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Krokar virgin forest and the Sne\u017enik-\u017ddrocle forest reserve<\/a>. In addition to the central sites of special interest, the World Heritage Site Tentative List includes Classic Karst and Fu\u017eina Hills in Bohinj.<\/p>\n<p>The Krokar virgin forest is an example of untouched primeval forest in the heart of the well-preserved forests of the Ko\u010devje region, which are also part of the Natura 2000 network in Slovenia. The Sne\u017enik-\u017ddrocle forest reserve, on the other hand, consists of ancient beech forest with sections of primeval forest. Like Krokar, it lies within a large forest complex that is included in the Natura 2000 network.<\/p>\n<p>Slovenia&#8217;s beech forests will appear on the list alongside forests of already acknowledged outstanding universal value in Germany, Ukraine and Slovakia, which together form the World Heritage site Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany. The list is completed by areas in Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, Spain, Ukraine, Slovakia and Croatia.<br \/>\nInscription on the list represents a recognition for Slovenia and a commitment to further enhance the protection of both forest reserves and other beech forest ecosystems in the future.<\/p>\n<p><em>Partial sources: www.en.unesco.org, www.vlada.si, www.nationalgeographic.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) convenes to determine which sites will be granted World Heritage status in recognition of their outstanding value to humanity.\u00a0At the 41st session of its World Heritage Committee, meeting in Krakow, the UNESCO has inscribed 63 new areas of ancient and primeval beech forest in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bureau-news"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}