On 25 June 2011, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee added five of Germany's beech forest regions to the World Heritage List. This extended the transboundary world natural heritage site "Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians", located in the Slovak Republic and Ukraine, to include a number of German forest regions, and renamed it "Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Ancient Beech Forests of Germany".

The German part includes selected forest regions of the National Parks Hainich in Thuringia, Kellerwald-Edersee in Hesse, Jasmund and Müritz in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and the forest of Grumsin in the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve in Brandenburg. These are the most valuable remaining examples of large, undisturbed beech forests in Germany.

Date: 14.05.15
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