World Heritage Forest Programme

In 2001, the World Heritage Committee agreed that forests warranted a particular focus, and approved the creation of the World Heritage Forest programme to ensure that the World Heritage Convention be leveraged as much as possible to further forest conservation on a global scale.

World Heritage Sites connected to 'World Heritage Forest Programme':

  • Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
  • Atlantic Forest
  • Belovezhskaya Pushcha / Puszcza Bialowieska
  • Brazilian Atlantic Islands
  • Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
  • Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
  • Canaima National Park
  • Central Amazon Conservation Complex
  • Central Sikhote-Alin
  • Central Suriname Nature Reserve
  • Cerrado Protected Areas
  • Chitwan National Park
  • Cocos Island
  • Coiba National Park
  • Comoé National Park
  • Darien National Park
  • Discovery Coast
  • Dja Faunal Reserve
  • Dong Phayayen
  • Durmitor National Park
  • East Rennell
  • Fraser Island
  • Garajonay
  • Gondwana Rainforests
  • Great Smoky Mountains
  • Gros Morne National Park
  • Guanacaste
  • Gunung Mulu
  • Huanglong
  • Huangshan
  • Iguazu National Park
  • iSimangaliso Wetland Park
  • Jiuzhaigou Valley
  • Kahuzi-Biega National Park
  • Kakadu National Park
  • Kinabalu Park
  • Lake Baikal
  • Laurisilva of Madeira
  • Lopé-Okanda
  • Lorentz National Park
  • Los Katios National Park
  • Machu Picchu
  • Manas Wildlife Sanctuary
  • Manu National Park
  • Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
  • Morne Trois Pitons
  • Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha
  • Mount Kenya
  • Mount Nimba
  • Mount Sanqingshan
  • Mount Taishan
  • Mount Wuyi
  • Nahanni National Park
  • Niokolo-Koba National Park
  • Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
  • Okapi Wildlife Reserve
  • Olympic National Park
  • Pantanal
  • Pirin National Park
  • Plitvice Lakes
  • Primeval Beech Forests
  • Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River
  • Rainforests of the Atsinanana
  • Redwood
  • Rio Abiseo National Park
  • Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve
  • Rwenzori Mountains
  • Salonga National Park
  • Sangay National Park
  • Selous Game Reserve
  • Shirakami-Sanchi
  • Shiretoko
  • Sian Ka'an
  • Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
  • Sinharaja Forest
  • Sundarbans National Park
  • Taï National Park
  • Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves
  • Tasmanian Wilderness
  • Te Wahipounamu
  • The Sundarbans
  • Three parallel rivers of Yunnan
  • Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng
  • Tikal National Park
  • Tongariro National Park
  • Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
  • Tsingy de Bemaraha
  • Ujung Kulon National Park
  • Vallée de Mai
  • Valley of Flowers National Park
  • Virgin Komi Forests
  • Virunga National Park
  • Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
  • Wet Tropics of Queensland
  • Wood Buffalo National Park
  • Yakushima
  • Yellowstone
  • Yosemite National Park