UNESCO adds three more sites to endangered World Heritage list
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has added three more sites to its World Heritage in danger list because of over-development, bringing to 35 the number of World Heritage sites considered at risk.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has added three more sites to its World Heritage in danger list because of over-development, bringing to 35 the number of World Heritage sites considered at risk.
The new entries, added by UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee during its 27th session underway at its Paris headquarters, are: Comoé National Park in Côte d’Ivoire, inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1983, now threatened by current unrest, poaching and over-grazing; Kathmandu Valley in Nepal, added to the World Heritage List in 1979, now threatened by uncontrolled urban development; and the Walled City of Baku and Shirvan shah's Palace and Maiden Tower in Azerbaijan, put on the World Heritage List in 2000, now endangered by earthquake damage in November 2000 and urban development.
Earlier in its session the committee also put Bamiyan in Afghanistan and Ashur in Iraq on its endangered list.