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Article for a magazine about the world heritage sites at risk.include imaginary interviews with people who are trying to save them.
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites at Risk of Flooding Due to Climate Change
Sea-level rise predictions and flooding statistics show which UNESCO sites might be submerged by 2100.
-By Anna Groves|Monday, April 15, 2019
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“Mediterranean UNESCO World Heritage at risk from coastal flooding and erosion due to sea-level rise,” Nature Communications, 2018
We already know flooding during extreme weather events, made worse by rising sea levels, threatens coastal communities and ecosystems globally. Now, a team of European researchers has brought another target to our attention: the UNESCO World Heritage sites that dot the Mediterranean coast. In a recent paper published in Nature Communications, the team estimated how likely these sites — including the ancient Greek city of Ephesus and the Bahá’í Holy Places in Israel — will be submerged in the future.
Using sea-level rise predictions and flooding statistics from the Mediterranean Coastal Database, they calculated what that risk looks like today and what it might be in 2100. The team found that 37 of the 49 Mediterranean sites are already in danger of experiencing a flood event; this risk will increase to 40 sites by 2100.
But these events don’t threaten all sites equally. When determining risk, researchers considered how much of the site might flood, plus the likely depth of water.
world heritage sites are in Danger
From the Florida Everglades to Africa’s first national park, many crucial protected areas are in serious trouble
Everglades Sunset
Everglades National Park is in critical condition due to poor water management, according to the IUCN.
-By Sarah Zielinski
NOVEMBER 14, 2014
SYDNEY—A third of the United Nations World Heritage sites valued for their geology, biodiversity or natural beauty are in danger. And 8 percent of all the sites—including Everglades National Park in Florida—are now considered to be in critical condition, according to an assessment from the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
The IUCN plays an advisory role in the UNESCO World Heritage program, which maintains a list of international sites of cultural or natural significance. Once a site is listed, it is up to the nation where it is located to maintain and preserve the site. Being listed in the program is deemed incredibly valuable for tourism, so the threat of de-listing can prompt countries to take action to better protect a site.
Just because some sites are now listed as critical doesn’t mean “the situation can’t be fixed, that we need to resign ourselves to failure. We need to fix it,” says Cyril Kormos, vice-chair for world heritage at the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas.
Until now, most assessments of World Heritage sites have been reactionary, undertaken only when threats have been identified. This is the first report to look at all of the 228 natural and "mixed" sites in the program, ignoring those of only cultural value, such as the Statue of Liberty. The final report, released November 13 at the IUCN World Parks Congress, ranks sites in one of four categories: “good”, “good with some concerns”, “significant concern” and “critical”.
The majority of natural World Heritage sites are doing well, the report finds, but many are dealing with threats such as invasive species and the impacts of mismanaged tourism, dams, hunting and fishing. The pressure on these sites is only increasing as the world's climate warms. Climate change was one of the threats that landed the Great Barrier Reef in the "significant concern" category, along with coastal development, shipping, runoff and fishing. The region’s effective management is what spared it from a critical listing. “Certainly climate change is the main potential threat to natural world heritage globally," says Elana Osipova, a world heritage monitoring officer at the IUCN.
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