UNESCO Set to List Lebanon Castles, Lake Baikal as Heritage in Danger
The committee may fast-track three sites onto the danger list as members weigh threats from war, pollution, logging and climate change.
- Starting Friday, July 24, 2026, the 196 member states of UNESCO will meet in Busan, South Korea, to vote on new World Heritage additions and potential 'in danger' listings.
- Heritage listing often sparks lucrative tourism and unlocks preservation funding for threatened sites. UNESCO World Heritage Centre Director Lazare Eloundou Assomo stated the 'in danger' designation helps states 'find funding, partners and attention' to better preserve them.
- France's Normandy beaches, where Allies landed on June 6, 1944, may finally receive recognition, alongside two Amazon forest theatres in Brazil and the Tunisian village of Sidi Bou Said.
- Committee members will consider endangered status for several threatened locations, including Russia's Lake Baikal, South Sudan's Boma-Badingilo grasslands, and Lebanese castles in south Lebanon's Tyre, which has faced recent bombardment.
- Contested sites under consideration include Sebastia, identified as biblical Samaria in the West Bank, where Palestinians fear Israel could restrict access to ruins they depend on for local income.
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From the castles of South Lebanon under the bombs to the ecological disaster on Lake Baikal, Unesco meets in Busan to place under high protection the masterpieces of humanity.
Military conflicts and climate change pose a growing threat to UNESCO World Heritage sites, which is why some of them are set to be added to the List of World Heritage in Danger, reports the AFP news agency.
UNESCO to list sites ‘under threat’ of war, climate change
The UN looks set to list a Biblical site, Lebanese castles, an antelope migration path and the world’s deepest lake as world treasures under threat, including from war or climate change.The 196 members states of the UNESCO are to cast votes from Friday next week on new additions to its World Heritag
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PARIS, July 18 — The United Nations looks set to list a Biblical site, Lebanese castles, an antelope migration path and the world’s deepest lake as world treasures under threat, including from war or climate change.The 196 members states of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) are to cast votes from Friday next week on new additions to its World Heritage and World Heritage in Danger lists when they meet i…
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