Climate change threatens cultural heritage

Rising sea levels, rising ocean temperatures, floods and other earth-related greenhouse disasters are threatening the world's cultural assets, according to the Environmental Program's recommendation. UN (UNEP).

A type of coral has just been discovered in Phang Nga province in southern Thailand.(Photo: AFP)

UNEP's research shows coral reefs on the Belize coast that Charles Darwin described in 1842 as " the most wonderful coral reef in the West Indies " that was " bleached " by warming seawater.

The temples in Alexandria, Egypt and pre-Inca properties in Peru's Huascara National Park were severely degraded because the water fell from the melting Andes peaks.

Among them is a temple built in 900 BC. Many of the Czech theater, theater, museum and library buildings, which store 500,000 old books and documents, were devastated by the European flood in 2002 .

UNEP Representative, Achim Steiner, urged the world to take note of this in order to make efforts before it is too late. Especially the loss of culture will make poor countries more poor. According to him, it is necessary to use intelligence and scientific knowledge to support the management of important cultural places .

Coral at Belize coast (Photo: magnergraphix)

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