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Ogasawara Islands, Japan from the NatGeo’s slide show on the four new natural sites added to the UNESCO list.
And here is that entire list from UNESCO.org
Natural properties:
Ningaloo Coast (Australia)
Ogasawara Islands (Japan)
Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley (Kenya)
Mixed natural and cultural properties:
Wadi Rum Protected Area (Jordan)
Cultural Properties:
Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison (Barbados)
West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou (China)
Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia (Colombia)
The Persian Garden (Iran)
Konso Cultural Landscape (Ethiopia)
The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean Agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape (France)
Fagus Factory in Alfeld (Germany)
Longobards in Italy. Places of the power (568-774 A.D.) (Italy)
Hiraizumi - Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing The Buddhist Pure Land (Japan)
Fort Jesus, Mombasa (Kenya)
Petroglyphs Complexes of the Mongolian Altai (Mongolia)
León Cathedral (Nicaragua)
Saloum Delta (Senegal)
Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana (Spain)
Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe (Sudan)
Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps (Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia)
Ancient Villages of Northern Syria (Syrian Arab Republic)
Selimiye Mosque Complex at Edirne (Turkey)
Cultural Sites of Al Ain (Hafit, Hili, Bidaa Bint Saud and Oases Areas) (United Arab Emirates)
The Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans (Ukraine)
Citadel of the Ho Dynasty (Viet Nam)
Extensions:
Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany (Slovakia, Ukraine, Germany)
Additions to the World Heritage List in Danger:
Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve (Honduras)
Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra (Indonesia)
Removed from World Heritage List in Danger:
Manas Wildlife Sanctuary (India)