UNESCO adds Iranian forest to World Heritage List 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseUNESCO’s World Heritage Committee voted Friday to add Iran’s Hyrcanian forests to its World Heritage List, praising the area for its “remarkable” biodiversity. “Their floristic biodiversity is remarkable,” UNESCO said, with some 44 percent of Iran’s known vascular plants found in the Hyrcanian area. They were just one of two natural sites added to the UNESCO list on Friday, the other in China, when the World Heritage Committee met in Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku. The Islamic republic also has 22 cultural sites on the World Heritage List, including the jewel of the first Persian empire Persepolis.

Source: Manila Bulletin July 05, 2019 17:15 UTC