CENTRAL ASIAN MOUNTAIN RANGES AMONG NATURAL WONDERS GRANTED UN WORLD HERITAGE STATUS

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CENTRAL ASIAN MOUNTAIN RANGES AMONG NATURAL WONDERS GRANTED UN WORLD
HERITAGE STATUSNew York, Jun 21 2013 3:00PMTajikistan's Pamir
Mountains, the Hill Forts of Rajasthan and the Namib Sand Sea are
among the eight natural and man-made wonders
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as of today in the United Nations educational and cultural agency's
World Heritage List.

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO)
World Heritage Committee, meeting through the end of the month in
Cambodia, is reviewing 32 proposed sites and reviewing several already
on the list.

The Mountains of the Pamirs in Tajikistan are formed by the Himalayas,
Tianshan, Karakoram, Kunlun and the Hindu Kush ranges. They are among
the highest mountains in the world and referred to as the "Roof of the
World." The site is Tajikistan's first natural World Heritage site.

The Namib Sand Sea in Namibia was also
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for the first time with an inscription to the natural site list as the
only coastal desert in the world that includes extensive dune fields
influenced by fog.

In India, the UN committee
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six forts in Chittorgarh; Kumbhalgarh; Sawai Madhopur; Jhalawar;
Jaipur, and Jaisalmer representing the power of the Rajput princely
states dating between the 8th and 18th centuries. The sites include
temples and other sacred buildings, as well as a water harvesting
structure.

Also today, the Committee included Italy's Mount Etna, the most active
stratovolcano in the world that has continuously pumped ash and lava
on Sicilian neighbours as far back as 500,000 years.

"The diverse and accessible range of volcanic features such as summit
craters, cinder cones, lava flows and the Valle de Bove depression
have made the site a prime destination for research and education,"
the UN agency said on its website.

From Mexico, the Committee selected El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de
Altar Biosphere Reserve, already a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, for its
"dramatic beauty" and "great scientific interest". Describing the
site, the UN agency wrote that its dunes "emerge like islands from the
sea of sand and harbour distinct and highly diverse plant and wildlife
communities."

In China, members agreed on the Xinjiang Tianshan, which comprise
Tomur, Kalajun-Kuerdening, Bayinbukuke and Bogda, as part of the
Tianshan mountain system of Central Asia which are also part of the
Pamirs.

The Committee also decided to inscribe Kenya's Lewa Wildlife
conservancy, an extension to the Mount Kenya National Park which
houses the continent's second largest peak and a migration route for
elephants.

On the border between Poland and Ukraine, the UN agency today bestowed
the World Heritage honour on 16 wooden churches known as
<i>tserkvas</i> build of horizontal wooden logs between the 16th and
18th centuries by communities of the Eastern Orthodox and Greek
Catholic faiths.

"The <i>tserkvas</i> bear testimony to a distinct building tradition
rooted in Orthodox ecclesiastic design, interwoven with elements of
local tradition, and symbolic references to their communities'
cosmogony," UNESCO said.

Additions to the World Heritage List are expected to continue tomorrow
as the Committee continues to meet in Phnom Penh.Jun 21 2013 3:00PM
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