Japanese government to renominate Amami-Okinawa site for World Natural Heritage status
In Kunigami VIllage on October 16, 2017, IUCN field evaluators inspect Yambaru Forest in order to inform a decision regarding its nomination for World Natural Heritage status.
January 22, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo online edition
At a cabinet meeting on January 22 the Japanese government agreed to nominate a candidate site comprised of Amami Oshima, Tokuno Island, a northern part of Okinawa Island, and Iriomote Island (hereafter referred to as the Amami-Okinawa site) for inscription on the World Natural Heritage List.
The nomination file is to be submitted to the World Heritage Center by February 1.
Following a field inspection by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) planned for summer or autumn this year, the government is aiming for inscription in the summer of 2020.
Although the government aimed to have the Amami-Okinawa site inscripted on the World Heritage List last summer, the IUCN recommended deferral of the nomination and requested a fundamental revision of the nomination file.
The government has withdrawn the initial nomination and will renominate the site.
(English translation by T&CT and Erin Jones)
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