Philippines Expands UNESCO Tentative List with 7 New Sites

via various sources, The Philippines has bolstered its UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List with seven new entries, totaling 25 sites that span natural, cultural, and mixed categories. New additions include the Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary, the Samar Island Natural Park, and the Pujada Bay Protected Landscape and Seascape, alongside cultural sites like the Sugar Cultural Landscape of Negros and Panay Islands, and significant extensions such as the one for the Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras.

Seven new Philippine sites have been added to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) World Heritage Tentative List, bringing the total to 25.

On Feb. 1, the Unesco National Commission of the Philippines (Unacom) submitted to the World Heritage Center the country’s updated tentative list, which includes 14 natural sites, eight cultural sites and three mixed (natural and cultural) sites.

For cultural properties, in the list are The Tabon Cave Complex and all of Lipuun Point in Palawan (2006), Butuan Archaeological Sites in Agusan del Norte (2006) and an extension to the Baroque Churches of the Philippines (2006), which includes the churches of Tumauini in Isabela, Boljoon in Cebu, Loboc in Bohol, Lazi in Siquijor and Guiuan in Eastern Samar.

Source: 7 PH sites added to Unesco World Heritage tentative list