UNESCO Nomination File: St. Eustatius as World Heritage Site

Why we think St. Eustatius is of "outstanding universal value" and can meet the cultural and natural criteria of UNESCO:

• Cultural: "Bears a unique or exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared"(UNESCO 3rd criteria)
  See blog entry "Heritage Trail"

• Natural: "Contains the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation." (UNESCO 10th criteria) 
  See blog entry "Statia: 'Ecological wonder of nature'"

Statia is also of great value to UNESCO's Slave Route Project

SEAD wrote a letter to UNESCO to help us protect our outstanding universal values. Read the article in The Daily Herald (July 18, 2011)