UNESCOs World Heritage List now boasts total of 27 new sites

United Nations UNESCOs World Heritage List now boasts total of 27 new sites {unesco-logo-blkwte.gif} 8 July 2008 - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has inscribed a total of 27 new sites to its World Heritage List, including a Canadian fossil park, a thousand-year-old temple in Cambodia and the lagoons of New Caledonia. The latest additions include 19 cultural sites and eight natural sites chosen by the agencys 21-member World Heritage Committee, which is currently holding its 32nd session in Quebec City, Canada. Yesterdays additions include a monarch butterfly biosphere preserve in Mexico, a historic Alpine railway linking Switzerland and Italy, an Icelandic volcanic island and an archipelago in Yemen, among others. The Committee has also expanded the scope of four existing sites.... [read full story]