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Growing World Heritage: Committee Considers New Inscriptions

A big part of the World Heritage Committee annual meeting agenda is to add sites proposed sites to the World Heritage list.  Today the Committee began this process.  This year twenty-seven sights are up for consideration.

One of the first to be inscribed this year was  the Mount Wutai site in China.  A link to the full Committee Press Release can be found here.

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From Wikipedia:

It takes its name from its unusual topography, consisting of five rounded peaks (North, South, East, West, Central), of which the North peak, called Beitai Ding or Yedou Feng, is the highest, and indeed the highest point in northern China.
The main Buddhist temple grounds.

Wutai was the first of the four mountains to be identified and is often referred to as “first among the four great mountains.” Mount Wutai is home to some of the oldest existent wooden buildings in China that have survived since the era of the Tang Dynasty (618–907).

Four other sites were inscribed this morning:  The Walden Sea (bi-national site between Netherlands and Germany) Italy’s Dolomites, which are truly amazing, and Philippines’s Tubbataha Reefs.

You can keep updated on each inscription has it happens by going to the official World Heritage Committee homepage at  http://whc.unesco.org/