The Organisation of Caribbean States, OECS, congratulates Martinique on Montagne Pelée and Northern Pitons’ designation as a UNESCO World Heritage website.
On Sept. 16, a French delegation introduced a robust case to the forty fifth UNESCO World Heritage Committee, which met in Saudi Arabia, for Montagne Pelée and Pitons du Carbet’s inclusion to the revered listing. On Saturday, September 16, the jury concluded with the approval of Martinique’s candidacy.
At present, there are 1,184 World Heritage websites in 166 nations throughout the globe, with three located within the Caribbean Area – the Pitons Administration Space in Saint Lucia, Morne Trois Pitons Nationwide Park in Dominica and the latest addition, Volcanoes and Forests of Mount Pelée and the Pitons of Northern Martinique.
The OECS Director Basic has lengthy advocated for Montagne Pelée’s inclusion within the World Heritage Listing. Upon receiving the information, he acknowledged:
“The OECS is extraordinarily happy with Montagne Pelée and Northern Pitons’ inscription to the World Heritage Listing. OECS Member States have a wealthy, various, and distinctive historical past that reverberates by way of our mountains and valleys, and due to this fact, are completely happy that Montagne Pelée and the Northern Pitons have joined the Pitons in Saint Lucia and Dominica’s Morne Trois Pitons Nationwide Park inscription below the pure class, together with the opposite websites all over the world to share our tales.”
Two different websites within the OECS are inscribed below the cultural class – Antigua and Barbuda’s Naval Dockyard and Associated Archaeological Websites and Saint Kitts and Nevis’ Brimstone Hill Fortress Nationwide Park.
On the the current tenth OECS Council of Ministers for Environmental Sustainability, held 12-13 July 2023 in Anguilla, OECS Member States: REAFFIRMED help to Martinique of their candidacy in direction of World Heritage inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage listing of the volcanoes and forests of Montagne Pelée and the Pitons of Northern Martinique, noting the particular worth in direction of geologic analysis and biodiversity conservation, and COMMITTED to … proceed regional dialogue, exploration and collaboration, to the extent potential, on administration and networking of the pure websites, and on scientific and financial cooperation.
In line with UNESCO, the worldwide significance of Montagnet Pelée and the Pitons du Carbet relies on the illustration of volcanic components, supplies and processes. The eruption of 1902-1905 is taken into account a key occasion within the historical past of volcanology which had dramatic penalties for the city of Saint-Pierre, ensuing within the tragic lack of lives and a heritage which is a part of the tradition of Martinique. Globally threatened species are discovered on this serial property, together with the Martinique allobate (Allobates chalcopis), the frequent snake (Erythrolamprus cursor) and the endemic Martinique oriole (Icterus bonana).
“The United Nations Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO) seeks to encourage the identification, safety and preservation of cultural and pure heritage all over the world thought of to be of excellent worth to humanity. That is embodied in a global treaty referred to as the Conference regarding the Safety of the World Cultural and Pure Heritage, adopted by UNESCO in 1972” (Supply: UNESCO.org). In line with the Conference, Cultural and Pure Heritage could possibly be monuments, teams of buildings, websites (together with archaeological, historic, and aesthetic websites), pure options, geological and physiological formations, and pure websites.
