Cedar forests

Connected Sites: 4

Definition

WHS that include forests of trees known as "cedars".

Contributor

Proposed by Els Slots

Map

Connected Sites

  • Gwaii Haanas
    Tentative: 2004
    77%
    4
    2

    Western Red Cedar, Yellow Cedar (source)
  • Mount Mulanje Cultural Landscape
    Inscribed: 2025
    2.73
    6
    2

    "contains the entire known effective population of endemic and iconic species, such as the critically endangered (CR) Mulanje Cedar (Widdringtonia whyteii))" (IUCN ev)
  • Yakushima
    Inscribed: 1993
    3.73
    32
    5

    "the landscape of the Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica), a primeval forest composed of trees called “Yakusugi”, which are over 1,000 years in age" (OUV statement)
  • Qadisha Valley
    Inscribed: 1998
    3.31
    65
    4

    "the Forest of the Cedars of God is the last vestige of antique forests and one of the rare sites where the Cedrus lebani still grows" (OUV statement)