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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 scenes from some of the world’s newest sites, courtesy of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee.
LAURA BARRON-LÓPEZ:
This vast landscape in northern Scotland must combat climate change by storing more than 400 million tonnes of carbon in its dense peak.
MILLY REVILL HAYWARD, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds: This is a brilliant, brilliant example of what a blanket bulb can look like and the kind of species that can be seen here. Feeding countries account for five percent of all hedge bulb studies worldwide.
LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ:
Today, UNESCO has named it one of the most productive examples of a crucial, yet threatened, ecosystem that is helping the planet continue to breathe. Throughout its 1,500 square miles there is a diversity of animals and plants, as well as mosses that store 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):
On our right is the limit of our area. Among the species of nesting birds recorded here are the stilt, the ringed plover and the laughing gull.
LAURA BARRON-LÓPEZ:
The site is home to habitats for birds migrating between the Arctic, Southeast Asia, and Australasia.
Laura Barrón-López is a White House correspondent for PBS News Hour, where she covers Biden’s management of the nightly news. He is a political analyst for CNN.
Lorna is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producer on PBS NewsHour. During his two decades at NewsHour, he has scoured United States reporting on challenges ranging from the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, to tsunami preparedness in the Pacific Northwest to poverty politics during North Carolina’s election campaign. In addition, he spoke about the challenge of sea turtle nest poaching in Costa Rica, the unique architecture of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and world-renowned landscape designer Piet Oudolf.
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