World's most endangered locations
Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008, 4:44 PM by Lonely Planet
Another year, another list and the latest top ten going around is of the world's most endangered locations. The website Askmen.com has compiled a list of sites which are at risk due to environmental causes, over-tourism and conflict.
The list covers everything from the Panama Canal to Iraq's Babylon:
1. Dampier Rock Art Complex in Murujuga, Australia
2. Sonargaon-Panam City, Bangladesh
3. Chinguetti Mosque, Mauritania, West Africa
4. Panama Canal, Panama City, Chagres River
5. Dhangkar Gompa, Himachal Pradesh, India
6. Old Damascus, Syria
7. Babylon, Iraq
8. Leh Old Town, Ladakh, India
9. The Coral Triangle, Sulu and Sulawesi Seas
10. Greenland
Do these men really know what they're talking about?
Lonely Planet has highlighted the destruction of the Jaisalmer Fort in India as one of the world's most endangered sites but it doesn't seem to have made the grade.
Can you see anything else missing?
Labels: Travelsnitch
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6 Comments:
Just a month or so ago 'experts' were saying the Great Barrier Reef will be dead within 30 years: maybe that should be on the list too. Get in before the algal slime takes over...
There's not much to back up these claims. Of cours, AL Gore will tell you that the so called "global warming" is responsible for this. It sould be called "global cyclic paterns that cause the teperatures to increase for X amount of time and then decrease for X amount of time and this will in no way melt the icecaps." But such sites of beuty and historic value still do need to be protected. Conservation is important and people should take notice (maybe not of Gore).
ur are a douche. please burn your passport and only travel to texas.
Machu Picchu of peru now deserves to be on top of this list. the site has qualified to be on the New Seven Wonders List and has attracted a vast number of tourists to the location. about 400,000 tourists visit the site every year. and to cash in on this heavy influx the government has decided to allow construction of hotels and resorts in the immediate vicinity. I'm sure this is a very short sighted decision and will cost dearly.
Machu
Picchu - The Legendary Lost City
ok i know this isn't an environmental site, but climate change is a reality. 3500 scientists making independent reports over the last 10 years, in conjunction with all UN governments have signed off on this certainty. Its no longer a debate. look up the executive summary on www.ipcc.ch for clarification. SAVE THE TREES!!! :/
I would add Yading Nature Reserve in Sichuan, China to the list. This is quite honestly the most spectacular mountain sanctuary I've ever seen and a sacred Tibetan Kora follows a route around Mt Chenrezig, the earthly manifestation of the bodhisatva of compassion. This has been an oasis of tibetan culture until 2007when the Chinese government decided that it would 'develop' the park with roads, a tramway, mega hotels and with the red army in full force, supress the Tibetan protests. It's a very sad situation and nobody will understand what was lost until after the place becomes famous as a Chinese tourist attraction. The army will turn away anyone trying to access the area until development is complete.
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