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WHS_three
sites
·
On July 8,
2008 World
Heritage
Committee
(UNESCO -
The United
Nations
Educational,
Scientific
and Cultural
Organisation)
added three
new sites to
WH list,
including a
former slave
hideout
Morne
Cultural
Landscape
(Mauritius),
the
Nabataean
archaeological
site (Saudi
Arabia),
and Fujian
Tulou
earthen
houses
(China).
Majuli
·
Brahmaputra
river
island,
Majuli, the
seat of neo-Vaishnavite
culture in
Assam and a
storehouse
of rich
cultural
heritage,
again failed
to make it
to World
Heritage
Site Status.
·
After Majuli
had failed
to get the
World
Heritage
Site Status
on technical
grounds at
the 31st
session
of the World
Heritage
Committee
held at
Christchurch
in New
Zealand last
year, the
Assam
government
in
cooperation
with the
Centre made
a fresh
attempt
before the
committee
this year.
·
The island
and the
Kalka-Shimla
Railway (KSR)
from India
were among
the 13
natural and
34 cultural
sites
submitted
before the
Unesco
committee
for the
heritage
tag, which
just-concluded
32nd session
in Canada.
Mission
IAS’2009
·
The
archaeological
site of
Al-Hijr,
the largest
conserved
site of the
civilization
of the
Nabataeans
south of
Petra in
Jordan, is
the first
World
Heritage
site in
Saudi
Arabia.
·
It also
chose the
Morne
Cultural
Landscape,
a rugged
mountain
jutting into
the Indian
Ocean in
southwestern
Mauritius
that was
used as a
shelter by
runaway
slaves,
maroons,
through the
18th and
early years
of the 19th
centuries.
·
Fujian Tulou
property of
46 houses
built
between the
12th and
20th
centuries as
homes to
entire clans
in southwest
of Fujian
province,
inland from
the Taiwan
Strait, also
made to
heritage
list
·
The three
new entries
bring
UNESCO’s
World
Heritage
List to 854
sites in
more than
140
countries
around the
world.
·
The
21-member
World
Heritage
Committee
meeting
until 10
July is
considering
another 40
candidate
sites to its
world list.
·
Canada is
presiding at
this year’s
meeting as
Quebec City
celebrates
its 400th
anniversary. |
