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The Pacific archipelago inscribed in 1978 among the very first entries on the World Heritage List. In 2007 the Committee placed it on the List of World Heritage in Danger over invasive species, unregulated tourism growth and overfishing; on 28 July 2010 it removed it again, finding that Ecuador had made significant progress. That removal was itself contested — IUCN, the Convention's own advisory body on natural properties, and the Galápagos Conservancy both argued it was premature. Galápagos is the counter-example to the delistings: it shows the danger list working as designed, as a lever rather than a verdict, while also showing how contestable the judgement of 'recovered' is.

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  1. Story
  2. The Pacific archipelago inscribed in 1978 among the very first entries on the World Heritage List. In 2007 the Committee placed it on the List of World Heritage in Danger over invasive species, unregulated tourism growth and overfishing; on 28 July 2010 it removed it again, finding that Ecuador had made significant progress. That removal was itself contested — IUCN, the Convention's own advisory body on natural properties, and the Galápagos Conservancy both argued it was premature. Galápagos is the counter-example to the delistings: it shows the danger list working as designed, as a lever rather than a verdict, while also showing how contestable the judgement of 'recovered' is.
  3. Knowledge
  4. List of World Heritage in Danger
  5. Galápagos Islands
  6. Connections
  7. List of World Heritage in Danger
  8. The first properties are inscribed on the World Heritage List
  9. Galápagos Islands placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
  10. Outstanding Universal Value and the ten selection criteria
  11. Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972)
  12. Venice and its Lagoon
  13. Dresden Elbe Valley (delisted 2009)
  14. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (delisted 2021)
  15. Timbuktu
  16. Site of Palmyra
  17. Galápagos Islands
  18. Angkor
  19. Angkor inscribed on the World Heritage List and the danger list on the same day
  20. Angkor removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger
  21. Galápagos Islands placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
  22. Arabian Oryx Sanctuary deleted — the first site ever removed from the World Heritage List
  23. Dresden Elbe Valley deleted — the second removal, by a vote of 14 to 5
  24. Fourteen of Timbuktu's sixteen inscribed mausoleums destroyed
  25. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
  26. The Temple of Bel at Palmyra destroyed
  27. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City deleted — the third and most recent removal
  28. The Committee declines, again, to place Venice on the danger list
  29. Evidence
  30. 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.
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