One of the achievements of the conservation movement of the 1970s, the World Heritage list was sparked by concern for the planet's heritage in a rapidly developing world. Inclusion on the World Heritage list elevates a place, a monument or a wilderness area to the trophy case. War and civil strife are the major reasons a World Heritage site ends up as a triage patient, but ecological devastation of unique and sensitive areas is why the endangered list also features World Heritage sites in South-East Asia, North America and Europe. Here are some World Heritage sites you might want to see before change overtakes them. The World Heritage Casualty ListIt takes a lot to get booted off the World Heritage List and so far only three sites have lost their listing.

Source: Stuff March 14, 2019 17:03 UTC