Efforts on by Odisha to get UNESCO Heritage tag for Bhitarkanika national park

A team from the UNESCO World Heritage team would visit the Bhitarkanika national park on October 18 to see if the park can be granted the Heritage tag. If approval is given, it will become Odisha’s second world heritage site after Konarak sun temple.
This has been reported in thestatesman.com dated 19 July 2016.

Earlier a comprehensive bio-diversity dossier of Bhitarkanika national park has been submitted to UNESCO last year itself. The dossier merited positive consideration leading to the forthcoming visit of UNESCO team. The dossier contained among other things wide-ranging ground-level information on bio-diversity, eco-system and local human habitation and socio-economic condition of locals and their dependence on forest produce.
The national park is a bio-diversity treasure-trove and had figured in the list of Ramsar international wetland sites across the globe. Hence, according heritage site tag by UNESCO appears to be a formality. Often described as nature’s gift, Bhitarkanika is enriched with a variety of habitats and climatic conditions which are not found anywhere else in the country.


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