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Last Ice Area LAST ICE AREA Potential Transnational World Heritage Property (CANADA and DENMARK) World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Canada … Editor Location of the nominated property in the Arctic. Technical Editor K. Mikhailova Authors J. Veillette C. Tesar A. Butorin World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Global Arctic Programme … E. Garankina A S II N. Maksakovsky S U RR Photographers G R E U E .. N S S L . L The Natural Heritage Protection Fund was estab- A A . N lished in 2000 in compliance with article 17 of D the UNESCO Convention concerning the Protec- C tion of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. A The Fund’s priority is the overall support of World Heritage properties, as well N Design and Layout A D as obtaining this status for new natural sites both in Russia and the CIS. E. Petrovskaya A http://www.nhpfund.org Legend Proposed World Heritage Site 0 500 1,000 KM Last Ice Area This project is financed by … The WWF Last Ice Area boundary is based on projected September Sea Ice Extents, >15% Conc, from 2050 through to 2090 (Huard & Tremblay, 2013). © WWF Canada 2014 Approved for printing …. © Printed by … © Natural Heritage Protection Fund 2014 500 copies © Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2014 Each State Party to this Convention recognizes that the duty of ensuring the identification, protection, conserva- tion, presentation and transmission to future generations of the cultural and natural heritage situated on its territory, belongs primarily to that State. It will do all it can to this end, to the utmost of its own resources and, where appropri- ate, with any international assistance and co-operation, in particular, financial, artistic, scientific and technical, which it may be able to obtain. UNESCO Convention сoncerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage Nomination Last Ice Area Figure 1. Polar bear adult and cub tracks. © Vicki Sahanatien / IntroduCtIon WWF This is one of a series of research resources commissioned by WWF to Adopted on november 16, 1972, the Convention concerning help inform future management of the Area we call the Last Ice Area the Protection of the World Cultural and natural Heritage (LIA). We call it that because the title refers to the area of summer is the most efficient and representative among existing sea ice in the Arctic that is projected to last. As climate change nature conservation conventions and programs. the primary eats away at the rest of the Arctic’s summer sea ice, climate and purpose of the Convention is to unite the efforts of the ice modellers believe that the ice will remain above Canada’s High international community to identify, protect and provide Arctic Islands, and above Northern Greenland for many more decades. comprehensive support to cultural monuments and natural Much life has evolved together with the ice. Creatures from tiny objects of outstanding universal Value. single celled animals to seals and walrus, polar bears and whales, Established in 1976, the World Heritage List represents depend to some extent on the presence of ice. This means the areas both diverse regions on our planet and a number of specific where sea ice remains may become very important to this ice-adapted properties. Many natural properties of worldwide renown are life in future. protected under the World Heritage Convention, including One of my colleagues suggested we should have called the project the Great Barrier reef, Galapagos Islands, Lake Baikal, Grand the Lasting Ice Area. I agree, although it’s a bit late to change the Canyon, Mount Kilimanjaro, Victoria and Iguazu Falls. Canada is currently represented on the World Heritage List in 2014 by the following organizations: WWF Canada, natural name now, that name better conveys what we want to talk about. World Heritage status brings with it numerous advantages, by eight cultural and nine natural properties. Canada’s natural Heritage Protection Fund, Institute of Geography of the russian While much is changing, and is likely to change around the Arctic, both in terms of nature conservation and in garnering World Heritage properties are nahanni national Park, dinosaur Academy of Sciences, Likhachev Institute for Cultural and natural this is the place that is likely to change the least. That is also comprehensive support for territories inscribed on the World Provincial Park, Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Heritage. the booklet is supported by WWF Global Arctic Programme. meaningful for the people who live around the fringes of this area – Heritage List. World Heritage Convention offers its States tatshenshini-Alsek (transboundary with the united States the Last Ice Area is unique amongst potential World Heritage while people in other parts of the Arctic may be forced to change Parties and their inscribed sites broad legal, informational, of America), Wood Buffalo national Park, Canadian rocky sites, as it is nominated not only for what it is, but for what and adapt as summer sea ice shrinks, the people around the LIA may economic, and networking opportunities, which have been Mountain Parks, Gros Morne national Park, Waterton Glacier it will be; a locus of resilience in a rapidly changing world. not have to change as much. developing and improving for more than four decades. International Peace Park (transboundary with the United States Sea ice projections show this region within decades will be As a conservation organization, WWF does not oppose all change. Benefits of World Heritage Status for natural World Heritage of America), Miguasha national Park, Joggins Fossil Cliffs. the only place where year-round Arctic sea ice will remain. Our goal is to help maintain important parts of the natural world, Sites: the total area of Canadian natural World Heritage properties this will make it increasingly important for ice-obligate and parts that are important just because they exist, and important for • Additional guarantees of the full preservation and integrity comprises more than 17.7 million ha. two of natural properties, ice-associated marine mammal species. the nominated area people. WWF does not have the power and authority to impose its of unique natural areas. Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / tatshenshini- and nearby marine environments provide diverse habitats for vision on people. Instead, we try to present evidence through research, • Increase in the prestige of natural areas and the institutions Alsek and the Wood Buffalo national Park, are ranked in a multitude of unique life-forms highly adapted in their life and options for action. It is then up to the relevant authorities as governing them. the top 10 largest properties worldwide. Work is currently history, ecology and physiology to the extreme and seasonal to whether they will take action or not; the communities, the Inuit • Increase in the popularity of territories inscribed on the being carried out to present more of Canada’s natural and conditions of this environment. this ice-associated life is organizations, and the governments of the Last Ice Area will decide World Heritage List. mixed sites for inclusion in the World Heritage List. Atikaki / important not just in its own right, but for what it provides its future fate. We hope you will find the information in these reports • Greater capacity to attract financial support for World Woodland Caribou / Accord First nations (Pimachiowin Aki), for adjacent Inuit communities, both in terms of sustenance, useful, and that it will help you in making wise decisions about the Heritage sites. Gwaii Haanas, Ivvavik / Vuntut / Herschel Island (Qikiqtaruk), and in terms of cultural continuity and resilience. future of the Last Ice Area. • development of alternative types of natural resource use, Mistaken Point, and Quttinirpaaq are all included on Canada’s to this future role as an island of stability in a sea of change, In this particular document, we are responding to the lead of the including ecological tourism and traditional trades. tentative List. should be added its current attractions as a World Heritage Arctic Council’s Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna working group, • organization of monitoring and inspection of conservation denmark is currently represented on the World Heritage List site. A unique character of glacial conditions observed at the which suggested that a World Heritage site spanning the resilient ice activities in natural areas. by three cultural properties, and one natural property, Ilulissat nominated property – a kind of “open-air glaciology museum” area of Canada and Greenland should be considered by the respective untouched by economic activities and significant in size, Icefjord, with the total area of 402 400 ha. Three natural and has no analogues in the world. LIA is unique due to the large- governments, and a discussion document by the Inuit Circumpolar the natural World Heritage properties represent a valuable and mixed properties are included on the denmark’s tentative scale of contemporary glaciations and level of glacial relief Council that identified a World Heritage Site as an international important strategic natural reserve of humankind. the fact List: Moler landscapes of the Liim Fiord, Stevns Klint, and the treatment. there is a rich variety of terrestrial and coastal/ management option for LIA that would best meet Inuit interests. of a unique voluntary contribution of any state into a joint International Wadden Sea (danish-German-dutch Wadden Sea). marine environments with complex and intricate mosaics “bank of nature of humanity” positively affects the state’s the booklet contains the materials of the transnational of life at various successional stages from 500 m below sea 2 Clive Tesar, Last Ice Area lead. image (Butorin, 2011). nomination Last Ice Area (Canada and denmark) developed level to 5000 m above. 3 the First Property of the Serial transnational nomination nomination LASt ICE ArEA LASt ICE ArEA (CAnAdA and dEnMArK) Proposal for Inscription on tHE unESCo WorLd CuLturAL And nAturAL HErItAGE LISt Prepared by: • World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Canada • natural Heritage Protection Fund, russia • Institute of Geography of the russian Academy of Sciences Supported by: • World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Global Arctic Programme 2014 Figure 2.
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