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UNESCO World Heritage Committee session ends in Kraków

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Victoria Bieniek 12.07.2017 15:00
  • UNESCO World Heritage Committee session ends in Kraków
The 41st session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Krakow has come to an end.
A mine shaft and building in Tarnowskie Góry. Photo: Sir Iwan/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)A mine shaft and building in Tarnowskie Góry. Photo: Sir Iwan/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Almost 2,000 people from 126 countries took part in the convention to decide which of 34 nominated sites of cultural or natural significance deserved international protection.

During the first such meeting of the committee in Poland, it has made over 250 decisions including adding 21 sites to the World Heritage list.

Former mining sites in Tarnowskie Góry, southern Poland were among them.

During the session, the committee also said it "strongly urges" Poland to "immediately halt all logging and wood extraction in old-growth forests" including the primeval Białowieża forest in the country's northeast.

Tomasz Ferenc has more.

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