Vordingborg Municipality has management responsibility for both the Cliffs of Møn UNESCO World Heritage Site and the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve on Møn & Nyord.
Who are we?
UNESCO Secretariat
On Møn we are fortunate to have a double UNESCO designation, as Møn & Nyord are also designated as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
Vordingborg Municipality has administrative responsibility for both designations, and a UNESCO secretariat has therefore been established, consisting of a UNESCO Site Manager and a Biosphere Coordinator, who work closely together and are in dialogue with various networks of ambassadors, stakeholders, landowners, NGOs, research and industry.
The UNESCO Secretariat is located in the Center for Culture, Leisure and Development in Vordingborg Municipality.
World Heritage Council
World Heritage Council
Being a World Heritage Site is both a great recognition and a great obligation. We must take good care of the unique geological values, but also of the surrounding ecosystem and the people who live in the local community.
We have therefore gathered the most important stakeholders and landowners in a World Heritage Council, which meets several times a year to discuss the status, management and development of the designated area, and is in ongoing contact with local politicians.
Nature Agency Storstrøm
Klintholm Estate
East Mon Local Forum
Geocenter Møns Klint
Vordingborg municipality
The Danish Agency for Palaces and Culture
Møn & Nyord UNESCO Biosphere
The Biosphere Programme: Man and Biosphere (MAB) aims to create a sustainable balance between humans and nature, and functions as a kind of 'global laboratory' where local communities test new approaches to coexisting with nature, while creating growth and development – both for themselves and for the ecosystems around them.
In this way, the two UNESCO designations work well together, as the World Heritage Convention also requires that local communities be involved and integrated, so that the designation can contribute to local pride - and hopefully also to positive and sustainable development.
Denmark's wildest municipality
The management of both UNESCO designations lies with Vordingborg Municipality, which has been named Denmark's Wildest Municipality - partly because of its long coastline, but also because of the municipality's many nature restoration projects, including the EU-supported Life Orchids project that restores rare and vulnerable calcareous grasslands right in the middle of the World Heritage area.
The limestone outcrops are linked to the unique geology of the designated area, and are home to some of Denmark's most endangered orchids and insect species.
The scientific advisory board
To ensure the outstanding universal value of the World Heritage, it is essential to have a thorough knowledge of the geological values, as well as the professional basis for the designation as World Heritage.
Therefore, we have a close collaboration with both the Section for GeoGenetics - University of Copenhagen, and with GEUS; the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, both of which are part of a scientific advisory board, and participate in active geological monitoring and, not least, research projects on the geology at Møns Klint.
New research articles in relation to Møns Klint are continuously posted under Learn more.
