Inca trails spanning six countries and a French cave with some of the earliest k**wn paintings are among the sites expected to get World Heritage status at a UNESCO meeting that started Sunday in Doha. Altogether, at least 30 natural and cultural sites, including the Erbil Citadel in Iraq's Kurdistan, are vying to get the United Nations cultural body's prestigious distinction and add their names to an already 981-strong list. The June 15-25 World Heritage Committee gathering will also mull whether to put London's Westminster Palace on its list of endangered sites. And in a first for a developed country, Australia is asking that large swathes of its Tasmanian Wilderness -- one of the last expanses of temperate rainforest in the World -- be delisted to make way for loggers.
06-15-2014, 07:31 PM
Inca trails, ancient French cave vie for World Heritage status
Inca trails spanning six countries and a French cave with some of the earliest k**wn paintings are among the sites expected to get World Heritage status at a UNESCO meeting that started Sunday in Doha. Altogether, at least 30 natural and cultural sites, including the Erbil Citadel in Iraq's Kurdistan, are vying to get the United Nations cultural body's prestigious distinction and add their names to an already 981-strong list. The June 15-25 World Heritage Committee gathering will also mull whether to put London's Westminster Palace on its list of endangered sites. And in a first for a developed country, Australia is asking that large swathes of its Tasmanian Wilderness -- one of the last expanses of temperate rainforest in the World -- be delisted to make way for loggers.
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