Tianshan mountains in China become World Heritage Site
21.06.2013
The Xinjiang Tianshan mountain range in China has been declared a natural World Heritage Site at a World Heritage Committee meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Mountain Partnership member the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recommended the Central Asian mountain range for its outstanding scenic values, natural features and associated mountain ecosystems.
“We are very pleased with the Committee’s decision to include this spectacular site on the list of our planet’s most iconic places,” says Peter Shadie, deputy head of IUCN's delegation. “Xinjiang Tianshan’s landforms and ecosystems extend over an extraordinary 6,000m elevation range sampling an enormous diversity of land and life forms in a mountain system surrounded by cold mountain deserts.”
The Xinjiang Tianshan mountain range is located in the eastern part of the Tianshan mountain range, which crosses China, Kazakstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
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