The Marquesas Islands join the UNESCO world heritage list

2024-07-26 14:00:39

UNESCO announced this Friday, July 26, the inclusion of the Marquesas Islands, one of the five archipelagos of French Polynesia, as a World Heritage Site. They are considered by the UN organization as a mixed good, whose universal value is in both cultural and natural terms.

The Marquesas Islands, one of the five archipelagos of French Polynesia, joined the UNESCO world heritage list on Friday, July 26, announced the UN organization for education, science and culture.

“A new note on the UNESCO #World Heritage List: Te Henua Enata – Marquesas Islands, in #France,” UNESCO, whose World Heritage Committee is currently meeting in New Delhi, reported on X.

The Marquesas Islands are recognized by the UN as a mixed heritage, whose international value is in both cultural and natural terms.

One of the “world’s last wild oceans”

They are “unique testimony to the territorial occupation of the Marquesas archipelago by a human civilization that arrived by sea around 1000 AD, and which developed on isolated islands between the 10th and 19th centuries”, describes UNESCO on its website .

“A biodiversity reserve that combines a unique and well-defined marine and terrestrial ecosystems”, the Marquesas Islands is “an important center of endemism, home to rare and diverse flora, a diversity of emblematic marine species and one of the most diverse collections. of seabirds in the South Pacific”, the UN continued.

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“Truly free from human exploitation, the Marquesan waters are among the last wild marine areas in the world”, refers to UNESCO, whose “smooth corners”, “incredibly high peaks” and “large cliffs that rising suddenly above the sea” are all landscapes. having “no normal in these cold temperatures”.

The classification is a symbol that will allow the Marquesans to petition other international organizations to help them preserve their natural and cultural heritage. This decision is on the eve of another important event for the international influence of French Polynesia: the launch of Olympic Games swimming eventon July 27 in Teahupoo, on the Tahiti peninsula.