The world heritage committee of the UN’s cultural agency Unesco on Friday began debating its list of World Heritage Sites, with Australia and Britain furious over looming changes to the status of the Great Barrier Reef and the historic docks in the city of Liverpool. — The South China Morning Post
UNESCO's World Heritage Committee has a very full plate owing to the cancellation of last year's meeting over fears of the spreading coronavirus. Applications of sites like the famed porticoes of Bologna are also up for review.
The historic Liverpool docks played an outsized role in the transatlantic slave triangle and are in desperate need of preservation as construction encroaches.
Venice is also on the verge of losing its status as a World Heritage Site in a move that could devastate preservation efforts in the coastal Italian city.
France 24 has more on the Friday meeting here.
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