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Heritage site off UN danger list

Heritage site off UN danger list
Published: June 27, 2012 08:32 AM GMT
Updated: June 27, 2012 08:32 AM GMT

The Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras have been officially removed from the "List of World Heritage sites in Danger," the UN's France-based World Heritage Committee announced yesterday. The United Nations Information Center in Manila said in a press release today that the World Heritage Committee had commended the Philippines for conservation measures that were successfully implemented to preserve the site. The Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras, in northern Luzon, was put on the World Heritage List in 1995 as an outstanding cultural landscape. It was placed on the danger list in 2000 following a request from the Philippine government.    

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