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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

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26 NOMINATION DOSSIER "ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"<br />

Morning mist in the Kellerwald-Edersee<br />

National Park<br />

Being the best preserved<br />

old beech forests of the<br />

planar to submontane level<br />

in Germany, the nominated<br />

component parts are<br />

representative both of the<br />

ongoing ecological processes<br />

of the European<br />

beech forests and of the<br />

biodiversity that is peculiar<br />

to the European beech<br />

forests.<br />

2. Description<br />

Th e fi ve German component parts of the nominated serial property<br />

“Ancient Beech Forests of Germany” Jasmund, Serrahn, Grumsin,<br />

Hainich and Kellerwald are to extend the <strong>World</strong> Natural <strong>Heritage</strong> site<br />

“Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians”. Th is is to ensure that<br />

the unique and ongoing postglacial development process of the European<br />

beech forests is exhaustively illustrated.<br />

Germany represents the centre of distribution of the European beech<br />

forests that, from a global perspective, are a genuinely European<br />

phenomenon. Germany bears extraordinary responsibility for forest<br />

birds and primeval forest relic species. And what is more, vascular<br />

forest plants are found in Germany in substantial fractions of their<br />

global populations.

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