Mechtild Rössler, Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, acknowledges the great efforts of those engaged for World Heritage protection, and ............ for civil society as a whole to increase its commitment to protecting World Heritage sites.

2015 saw an unprecedented level of action from governments and the private ............ around the world. In January last year, the government of Kiribati declared its entire World Heritage site – the largest site on UNESCO’s World Heritage List – off limits for fisheries; in May Shell ........... to renounce drilling in the Chukchi Sea which threatened Wrangel Island Reserve System in Russia; and in December the government of Belize announced a permanent .......... on oil extraction in its World Heritage area.

The Director of the World Heritage Centre welcomes cooperation with NGOs, ........... WWF, on the protection of World Heritage sites worldwide as partners in the identification, nomination and protection of World Heritage properties. The International Council on Minerals and Mining (ICMM)’s “No-Go commitment”, ............ in 2003 by some of the world’s biggest mining companies "not to explore or mine in World Heritage properties", was a major ............. at the time. An increasing number of............. companies are uniting around this commitment not to carry out extractive operations in World Heritage sites, with Tullow Oil joining most recently. In part thanks to NGOs and civil society, many States Parties have been alerted to potential threats to their irreplaceable heritage and to sites of Outstanding Universal Value. The World Heritage Committee is taking increasingly strong action to prevent deterioration of World Heritage sites and mitigate threats to them.

The challenges to World Heritage conservation, combined with the .......... of climate change, are unprecedented in human history. The ........... for joint and collective collaboration among all stakeholders has never been more important.

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