As of: October 2011

BMU Brochure: Beech forests - UNESCO World Natural Heritage

A Juwel in Europe

On 25 June 2011, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee added five of Germany’s beech forest regions to the World Heritage List. This extended the transboundary world natural heritage site "Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians", located in the Slovak Republic and Ukraine, to include a number of German forest regions, and renamed it "Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Ancient Beech Forests of Germany".