Just four years after the Cíes Islands were proposed as a World Heritage Site, the candidature of the Xunta now presents the four archipelagoes as a World Heritage Site: CIes, Ons, Sálvora and Cortegada.
Aware of the possible projection that it brings to them, to their care and respect for the environment, in addition to their natural beauty, we would like to help supporting any kind of publicity or support that we can give to both.  Finding information of the in the web of Galicia about Atlantic islands and you can support the Cies Islands alone in the following link: Cíespatrimonio.

The VI International Symposium on Marine Sciences in 20/22sd of Juny of this year will be try  the scientific value of Cies Islands.

For this there is an inventory of assets that “Council of Historical Heritage” of national character and representative of all the autonomous communities delivered, according priority, to the World Heritage Center in UNESCO for the World Heritage Committee to evaluate it by entering the advisory bodies to evaluate the proposal in situ and preparing a report on it in the corresponding category, whether Monument, Set or Site.
There are 10 requirements to be supported to present the candidacy and to be part of this exclusive club approved at the General Conference of UNESCO (Paris 1972): “Convention on the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage”:
Cultural (6) and natural (4) criteria:
1. Represent a masterpiece of human creative genius.
2. . Testify an important exchange of human values ​​over a period of time or within a cultural area of ​​the world, be it in technology, architecture, urbanism, natural design, monuments or landscape design.
3. To be a unique or exceptional testimony of a cultural tradition, existing or disappeared civilization.
4. Be an example as architecture, landscape, building or technology that shows a significant stage of human history.
5. Being an eminent example of human settlement, use of the sea or land or human interaction with the environment especially when it becomes vulnerable to the impact of irreversible changes.
6. Be associated with living traditions, ideas or beliefs, artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance.
7. Contain areas or natural phenomena of exceptional natural and aesthetic beauty.
8. Be a sign of important stages in the history of the earth.
9. Be an eminent example of ecological and biological processes.
10. Contain the most representative and most important natural habitats for the conservation of biodiversity, (including those that contain threatened species).