{"id":121858,"date":"2017-07-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/over-24000-hectares-of-romanian-beech-forests-included-in-unesco-world-natural-heritage\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T13:02:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:02:30","slug":"over-24000-hectares-of-romanian-beech-forests-included-in-unesco-world-natural-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/over-24000-hectares-of-romanian-beech-forests-included-in-unesco-world-natural-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 24,000 hectares of Romanian beech forests included in UNESCO World Natural Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Over 24,000 hectares of beech forests in Romania have been included in the UNESCO World Natural Heritage, on the occasion of the 41st session of the Committee, which took place on July 7 in Krakow, Poland.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Of the 24,679.4 hectares of virgin beech forests declared a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site, 24,341.3 hectares are in the public property of the state and managed by the National Forest Administration &#8211; Romsilva, and 338.1 are in private property.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The initiative to include these sites in the UNESCO World Natural Heritage belongs to the Ministry of Waters and Forests, following the signing of a collaboration protocol three years ago with the National Forest Administration &#8211; Romsilva, the &#8220;Marin Dr\u0103cea&#8221; National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry, and environmental organizations WWF &#8211; Danube-Carpathian Program and Greenpeace Romania.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The project partners initially identified 25 sites, with 8 valuable sites being finally selected.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Last year, in September, a team of specialists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), an organization mandated by UNESCO to certify these sites, evaluated all these forests in the field.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The National Forest Administration \u2013 Romsilva has included nearly another 10,000 hectares of forest in the National Catalog of Virgin and Quasi-virgin Forests, with the process of identifying other virgin forests ongoing.<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wall-street.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Wall-Street<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>How many hectares of Romanian beech forests are in UNESCO?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over 24,000 hectares of virgin beech forests were included in the World Natural Heritage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who manages these protected forests?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The majority is state-owned and managed by Romsilva, while a small portion is privately owned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which organizations were involved in the nomination?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The initiative involved the Ministry of Waters and Forests, Romsilva, the &#8220;Marin Dr\u0103cea&#8221; Institute, WWF, and Greenpeace Romania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 24,000 hectares of beech forests in Romania have been included in the UNESCO World Natural Heritage, on the occasion of the 41st session of the Committee, which took place on July 7 in Krakow, Poland. Of the 24,679.4 hectares of virgin beech forests declared a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site, 24,341.3 hectares are in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":66783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2859],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-121858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stirea-editiei-en"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/topstory.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121858"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=121858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}