Shafaqna English- Climate change has emerged as the single greatest threat to the world’s natural World Heritage sites, affecting nearly half of them, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recent World Heritage Outlook 4 report.
The report evaluated 271 sites designated by UNESCO for their natural and cultural significance and found that 117, or about 43%, face “high” or “very high” levels of threat from climate change.
The figure represents a sharp increase compared to 2020, when 33% of sites were under such risk, and 2017, when the rate stood at 27%.
According to IUCN, climate change remains not only the greatest danger to heritage sites but also the fastest-rising one.
Sources: Anadolu Ajansı