Austria’s oldest beech forests to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site

5,250 hectares of old beech forests in the Kalkalpen National Park and 1,965 hectares in the wilderness area Dürrenstein is to be Austria’s become the first World Heritage Site. This is what the Minister of Life Andrä gave Rupprechter, Governor Josef Püringer and Lower Austria Environmental Regional Council Stephan Pernkopf is known. These forests in Upper and Lower Austria the World Heritage Committee in Paris for admission to the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites suggested