A suggestion from New Brunswickers to nominate Île Sainte-Croix in Maine, USA!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-unesco-world-heritage-sites -1.3714620

Sacri Monti of Canton Ticino (Orselina and Brissago) as an extension to the Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy. http://www.madonnadelsasso.org/index.html

Görlitz (Germany)
http://www.lr-online.de/regionen/weisswasser/Weltkulturerbe-Goerlitz-versucht-neuen-A nlauf;art13826,5065156

Saguenay Fjord (Canada)

http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/saguenay-lac/2016/08/09/002-fjord-saguenay-patrimo ine-arvida-unesco-site.shtml

While the UNESCO Tentative nomination page shows little sign of ever changing, there are quite a few tentative lists which if reports are correct will be submitted soon. These potential tentative lists are based on reports, but surely some of them will be trimmed down and narrowed.

Portugal (22) Summer 2016
The Ancient Stronghold of Almeida (Portugal)
Vila Real de Santo António (Portugal)
Bulwark Fortresses of Raia (Portugal)
Valenca Fortress (Portugal)
Mosteiro de São Miguel de Refojos de Basto (Portugal)
Cork Oak Forests of the Alentejo and Ribatejo (Portugal)
La Dehesa (Portugal, Spain)
Minho River Estuary (Portugal/Spain)
Schematic Rock Art of the West Peninsular (Portugal, Spain)
Magellanic Route (Portugal, Brazil, Philippines)
Portuguese Pilgrimage Routes to Santiago de Compostela (Portugal)
Historic Centre of Guimarães - the tanneries [extension] (Portugal)
Roman Industrial complex for salting a preserving fish in Tróia (Portugal)
Architectural masterpieces of Álvaro Siza Vieira in Portugal (Portugal)
The route of the Discalced Carmelite's (Portugal)
Mid-Atlantic Ridge (Portugal)
Levadas of Madeira (Irrigation channels) (Portugal)
The first places of globalization (Sagres, Azores, Madiera -potentially also Cape Verde, Cetua (Spain, Morocco)
Mértola (Portugal)
Montando - A type of agro-sylvo-pastoral farming landscape (Portugal)
Sanctury of Bom Jesus do Monte (Braga) (Portugal)
Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa (Portugal)

USA (15) November 2016
Historic Charleston (USA)
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (USA)
Pipestone National Monument (USA)
Gamble House (USA)
Olana State Historic Site (USA)
Historic Moravian Bethlehem (USA)
Moundville Site (USA)
Eastern State Penitentiary (USA)
Colonial Newport (USA)
Shaker Sites (USA)
French Creole sites of the Mid-Mississippi Valley (USA)
Underground Railroad Sites (USA)
Camino Real de las Californias (USA)
Anza Borrego Desert State Park (USA)
St Mary's City, Maryland (USA)

Australia (13) December 2016
Adelaide Park Lands (Australia)
Mount Lofty Ranges (Australia)
Budj Bim (Australia)
Burrup Peninsula Rock Art (Australia)
Cape York (Australia)
First National Park (Royal, Heathcote, Garawarra) (Australia)
Lake Condah Cultural Landscape (Australia)
Tarkine Wilderness (Australia)
West MacDonnels Ranges (Australia)
Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park (Australia)
Queen Victoria Market (Australia)
Kwongkan Shrubland (Australia)
Moreton Bay (Australia)

Malaysia (8) February 2017
National Leprosy Control Centre (Malaysia)
Royal Belum State Park (Malaysia)
DaMal (Malaysia)
Leaning Tower in Teluk Intan (Malaysia)
Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) (Malaysia)
Sungai Batu Archaeological Complex (Malaysia)
Pulau Sipadan, Sabah (Malaysia)
Permatang Quarza, Selangor (Malaysia)

South Korea (7) Spring 2017
Busan Provisional Capital and Refugee Trail (Korea)
Seodaemun Prison (Korea)
Catholic Heritage and Martyr Sites (Korea)
Jeong-dong: Old Legation Quarter (Korea)
Confucian Shrines of Seoul: Sungkyunkwan (Korea)
Jeju Island [Extension] (Korea)
Ruins of the Hanseong-Baekje [Extension] (Korea)

Canada (6) December 2017
Steveston (Canada)
Wells Gray Provincial Park (Canada)
Saguenay Fjord National Park (Canada)
Wanuskewin Heritage Park (Canada)
Ancient Forest/Chun T'oh Wudujut Park (Canada)
Rideau Canal - Perth [Extension] (Canada)

Royal Belum State Park AND Royal Belum, Perak are the same one.

Spain : El "mar de olivos" de Jaén

Jaen's 66 million olive trees set the goal to be WHS in 2019

http://www.eldiario.es/cultura/olivos-Jaen-quiere-Patrimonio-Humanidad_0_548045265.ht ml

Chile : Isla Madre de Dios & Diego de Almagro

Local government wants 2 islands from the already in TWHS Bernardo O'Higgins National Park to be WHS.

http://elpinguino.com/noticia/2016/08/12/isla-madre-de-dios-sera-postulada-como-patri monio-de-la-humanidad

Canada : Pont de Quebec

Another idea after Canada government asked public to propose site, this time a bridge in the city of Levis that is a mini version of Forth Bridge.

http://www.journaldelevis.com/1298/13991/Le_pont_de_Quebec_sur_la_Liste_du_patrimoine _mondial%C2%A0_.journaldelevis

Nigeria - Potential Sites

Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture said the government will boost number of WHS. The name of the sites that he mentioned are not the same one in the current tentative list!

- National Museum and Lekki Conservation Center in Lagos
- Obudu Cattle Ranch in Cross River and Yankari Game Reserve in Bauchi State.
- Ikogosi Warm Spring in Ekiti
- Nike Lake Resort in Enugu
- Mambila Plateau in Adamawa
- Royal Palace of the Oba of Benin in Edo

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/nigeria-deserves-world-heritage-sites-lai-mohammed /

In the coming months, I suspect we will be hearing more candidate nominations for Canada's Tentative List. Some might have a real chance, this seems like one of those with real potential.

Anticosti Island (Canada)

http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/est-quebec/2016/08/22/014-anticosti-candidature-pa trimoine-mondial-unesco.shtml

I had a scout and couldn't see if this was mentioned before but I just stumbled across this article (in Spanish) from 2011, which finishes by recommending Semipalatinsk Test Site (aka The Polygon) in Kazakhstan investigate becoming a WHS.

Personally I find nuclear history fascinating so I would certainly be sympathetic to it gaining inscription, perhaps alongside Bikini Atoll.

Japan : 1970 Osaka Expo's Tower of the Sun

Osaka Mayor wants the futuristic Tower of the Sun, symbol of 1970 Osaka Expo to be listed as WHS in 2020, 50 years after the expo!

http://www.asahi.com/sp/articles/ASJ8T5VZZJ8TPTIL02T.html

I was just here this week. I will be shocked, really really shocked, if this ever becomes a World Heritage site.