Six new sites added to UNESCO World Heritage list following IUCN

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee added five new sites on the World Heritage List and extend one existing World Heritage site.

• The announcement came during the 46th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in New Delhi, India.
• The sites added to the list are:
  • The Flow Country, United Kingdom
  • Te Henua Enata – The Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia
  • Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, Brazil
  • Badain Jaran desert – Towers of Sand and Lakes, China
  • Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China
  • Vjetrenica Cave, Ravno, Bosnia and Herzegovina

ABOUT UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE

• A World Heritage site is a landmark or area with legal protection by an international convention administered by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
• World Heritage sites are designated by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, scientific or other forms of significance.

The sites contain “cultural and natural heritage around the world considered being of outstanding value to humanity.”