Natural Heritage: Challenges Between Biodiversity and Climate Change

Natural heritage is today an imperative reality. Since it is part of the invaluable and irreplaceable assets not only of each nation but also of all humanity as a whole, the loss, through degradation or disappearance, of any of these eminently precious resources constitutes an impoverishment of the heritage of all peoples of the world. Human beings are not dissociated from the Earth or nature; they are parts of the same whole. In this text, we will seek to answer three questions, which will guide us in the search for a less opaque understanding of the situation of degradation of natural heritage around the planet: (a) What strategies can be used to guarantee the safeguarding and requalification of these spaces, together with the instruments for protecting and enhancing natural heritage that already exists? (b) What are the reasons for the intense threat to these natural spaces, and what are the impacts of the deterioration of these natural World Heritage Sites? (c) What is the relationship established between the failures of preservationist policy, in the past and present, and what is the future perspective for these heritage sites? If it is true that human nature has lost its measure by gradually destroying its natural heritage, the efforts made in the past 50 years have shown that the rope tensioned on one side by humans and on the other by nature has clearly demonstrated which way it will lean.