Galápagos Islands placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger

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1. Story
2. The Committee added the archipelago to the danger list over invasive species, uncontrolled growth in tourism and residency, and overfishing. Ecuador responded with a package of migration, quarantine and fisheries measures. This is the danger list used as intended: as leverage on a willing State rather than as a prelude to deletion.
3. Knowledge
4. List of World Heritage in Danger
5. Galápagos Islands
6. Galápagos Islands placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
7. Connections
8. Galápagos Islands
9. List of World Heritage in Danger
10. List of World Heritage in Danger
11. The first properties are inscribed on the World Heritage List
12. Galápagos Islands placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
13. Outstanding Universal Value and the ten selection criteria
14. Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972)
15. Venice and its Lagoon
16. Dresden Elbe Valley (delisted 2009)
17. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (delisted 2021)
18. Timbuktu
19. Site of Palmyra
20. Galápagos Islands
21. Angkor
22. Angkor inscribed on the World Heritage List and the danger list on the same day
23. Angkor removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger
24. Galápagos Islands placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
25. Arabian Oryx Sanctuary deleted — the first site ever removed from the World Heritage List
26. Dresden Elbe Valley deleted — the second removal, by a vote of 14 to 5
27. Fourteen of Timbuktu's sixteen inscribed mausoleums destroyed
28. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
29. The Temple of Bel at Palmyra destroyed
30. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City deleted — the third and most recent removal
31. The Committee declines, again, to place Venice on the danger list
32. Evidence
33. On 28 July 2010 the World Heritage Committee removed the Galápagos Islands from the List of World Heritage in Danger, finding significant progress by Ecuador; IUCN and the Galápagos Conservancy publicly argued the removal was premature. ALSO: The Galápagos Islands were inscribed in 1978 and placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 2007 because of invasive species, unregulated tourism growth and overfishing.