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The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has issued a stark warning aboutaroundatbyforfrominofontoup the future aboutaroundatbyforfrominofontoup the world's natural World Heritage sites. It says half aboutaroundatbyforfrominofontoup the sites are aboutaroundatbyforfrominofontoup risk from different industries. The WWF warned that harmful industrial activities such as mining, dredging or drilling aboutaroundatbyforfrominofontoup oil are endangering the future aboutaroundatbyforfrominofontoup 114 of 229 sites. Other factors adding to the risk include illegal logging and unsustainable water use. All aboutaroundatbyforfrominofontoup these are aboutaroundatbyforfrominofontoup addition to the damage being done aboutaroundatbyforfrominofontoup climate change. The WWF says the sites affected include Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the Grand Canyon National Park aboutaroundatbyforfrominofontoup the USA, and China's Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries, which are home aboutaroundatbyforfrominofontoup more than 30 per cent of the world's endangered pandas.

The director aboutaroundatbyforfrominofontoup the UNESCO World Heritage Centre said it was aboutaroundatbyforfrominofontoup to everyone to protect these sites. She said: "World Heritage is humankind's common heritage, and the responsibility aboutaroundatbyforfrominofontoup its conservation is shared aboutaroundatbyforfrominofontoup everyone." She welcomed government efforts aboutaroundatbyforfrominofontoup reducing what they take aboutaroundatbyforfrominofontoup the Earth, saying: "The WWF's report comes aboutaroundatbyforfrominofontoup a time when governments and the private sector aboutaroundatbyforfrominofontoup the world are stepping aboutaroundatbyforfrominofontoup their action against harmful extractive uses." However, the WWF said that more than 11 million people worldwide rely aboutaroundatbyforfrominofontoup World Heritage sites aboutaroundatbyforfrominofontoup food, water, shelter, jobs and medicine, and that non-stop development could harm livelihoods as well as the environment.