{"id":688912,"date":"2026-06-07T00:52:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/688912\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T00:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:52:24","slug":"unesco-designates-14-new-biosphere-reserves-on-world-environment-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/688912\/","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO designates 14 new biosphere reserves on World Environment Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental action depends on reliable information<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Also on World Environment Day, UNESCO and the OSCE are launching <a href=\"https:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/ark:\/48223\/pf0000398314\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reporting the Environment: A Practical Manual for Journalists<\/a>. At a time when misinformation and disinformation increasingly affect many of today\u2019s most urgent global challenges, reliable reporting on nature, climate and environmental issues has never been more important. Written by journalists for journalists and enriched by contributions from leading journalism organizations \u2014 including Covering Climate Now, EIF, Fondation Hirondelle, NICHE, Pulitzer Center and the Reuters Institute \u2014 the manual offers practical tools for covering environmental stories accurately and safely, from navigating climate misinformation and AI-generated content to investigating environmental harm and accountability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About the biosphere reserves:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">UNESCO biosphere reserves are territories of outstanding ecological value where people and nature grow harmoniously alongside each other, conserving biological and cultural diversity, advancing sustainable development, and connecting communities across a global network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Since 1971, biosphere reserves have played a central role in UNESCO\u2019s environmental mission. Alongside natural World Heritage sites and Global Geoparks, they contribute to protecting more than 13 million km\u00b2 of terrestrial and marine ecosystems under UNESCO\u2019s umbrella, advancing the global Kunming-Montreal target of conserving 30% of land and sea by 2030.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">The newly designated biosphere reserves are (<a href=\"https:\/\/unesco.sharepoint.com\/:f:\/s\/CPETeam\/IgAca_3WlrpBQqo6DEZw3rFxAT5Gn98aad35HHHkSQHsxcs?e=mzcR7z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">full descriptions of the sites available here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Albania \u2013 Shkod\u00ebr\u00a0Lake<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Algeria \u2013 Theniet\u00a0El Had<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Aruba \u2013 Aruba Island<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Azerbaijan \u2013 Great Caucasus<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Cameroon \u2013 Takamanda \u2013 Cross River Gorilla<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Canada \u2013\u00a0Qu\u00e9bec City<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Islamic Republic of\u00a0Iran \u2013 Dalankuh \u2013 Qamishlou<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Mongolia \u2013 Tost Toson Bumbiin Nuruu<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Montenegro \u2013 Skadar Lake Watershed<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Paraguay \u2013 Sur del Alto Paran\u00e1<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Philippines \u2013 Matibay\u00a0na\u00a0Bayan ng Sablayan<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Portugal \u2013 Serra da Estrela<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Timor-Leste \u2013 Nino Konis Santana<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Viet Nam \u2013\u00a0Phong Nha \u2013 Ke Bang <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Environmental action depends on reliable information Also on World Environment Day, UNESCO and the OSCE are launching Reporting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[299184,192,192168,79,298300],"class_list":["post-688912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-biosphere-reserves","tag-environment","tag-natural-sciences","tag-science","tag-world-environment-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}