Climate change and large dam projects are putting natural World Heritage sites at risk, says International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the official advisory body on nature to UNESCO's World Heritage Committee, meeting on June 25 in Bonn, Germany.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) destroyed two ancient Muslim mausoleums in the historic Syrian city of Palmyra, the country's antiquities director said Tuesday, according to Agence France-Presse.
Islamic State of Iraq and the Leavnt (ISIL) militants have laid landmines and explosives at the site of the ancient ruins in Syria’s Palmyra, a monitor said June 21, adding the purpose of the move was unclear.
Nepal has reopened most of the heritage sites that were damaged in a pair of strong earthquakes that devastated parts of the country recently, hoping to bring back foreign tourists.
China
has set out to make a new law to regulate the traditional Tibetan
practice of sky burial, which involves feeding bodies of the dead to
birds. Official sources in Tibet have indicated that the use of sky
burial sites as tourist attraction may be banned.