The Three Prefectures’ Council for the World Heritage Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range, Mie Prefecture, Wakayama Prefecture, Nara Prefecture

Solutions connected with The Three Prefectures’ Council for the World Heritage Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range, Mie Prefecture, Wakayama Prefecture, Nara Prefecture

East Asia

Integrating religious and traditional stewardship in the management of the Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range World Heritage, Japan

Fumihiko

Ito

4 Building blocks

Transboundary governing structure for the World Heritage Property

Granting autonomy to religious bodies in the management of their sacred places (forests and temples)

Continuation of the traditional community-based conservation of secondary forests

Participatory conservation of pilgrimage paths