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The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has added 24 new sites to its list for 2024. From a Scottish peat bog to an important stopover for migratory birds in China, we take a look at some of the world’s newest sites.
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LAURA BARRON-LÓPEZ:
Finally, tonight we leave you with scenes from some of the world’s newest sites, courtesy of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee.
LAURA BARRON-LÓPEZ:
This vast landscape in the north of Scotland is helping to combat climate change by storing more than 400 million tonnes of carbon at its dense peak.
MILLY REVILL HAYWARD, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds: This is a brilliant example of what a canopy bulb can look like and what kind of species can be seen here. Flow countries account for five percent of all canopy bulb searches worldwide.
LAURA BARRON-LÓPEZ:
Today, it has been designated by UNESCO as one of the most productive examples of a crucial, yet threatened, ecosystem that is helping the planet to continue breathing. In its 1,500 square miles there is a diversity of animals and plants, as well as mosses that house gigantic amounts of water in their cells. Another in China is a stopover for millions of migratory waterfowl in the Yellow Sea.
WU WEI, Chonming Dongtan National Nature Reserve (via translator):
To our right is the limit of our area. Among the species of nesting birds recorded here are the stilt, the plover and the black-headed gull.
LAURA BARRON-LÓPEZ:
The site supports habitats for birds that migrate between the Arctic, Southeast Asia and Australasia.
Laura Barrón-López is the White House correspondent for the PBS News Hour program, where she covers Biden’s administration for the evening news program. She is a political analyst for CNN.
Lorna is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning manufacturer on PBS NewsHour. During his two decades at NewsHour, he has covered reporting in the United States on challenges ranging from the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, to tsunami preparedness in the Pacific Northwest to the politics of poverty. During the North Carolina election campaign, he also spoke about the challenge of sea turtle nest poaching in Costa Rica, the peculiar architecture of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and world-renowned landscape designer Piet Oudolf.
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