UNESCO World Heritage Endangered List: Most Interesting Sites (PHOTOS)

Tuesday's addition of tropical rainforests in Honduras and Indonesia to UNESCO's endangered world heritage site list is a sobering reminder that, without conservation efforts, time may be running out for the planet's remarkable natural reserves.

As the Associated Press is reporting, the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve on Honduras' Caribbean coast is back on the endangered list after being removed in 2007. Despite valiant conservation efforts, illegal land clearing, hunting and fishing continue to take place within the more than 5,000 square kilometer (1,900 square miles) mountainous reserve.

UNESCO's full list of endangered sites comprise locations rich in both natural and man-made splendor around the world. From Jerusalem's Old City to Belize's coral reefs, each location is unique in its own regard.

So which is most worthy of UNESCO's conservation efforts? Take a look at a selection of sites and cast your vote here:

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[onnozol]

07:40 PM on 07/08/2011

The Congo gets my top vote but I have wanted to be Dian Fossey since I was four. Maybe some day.

[HAlexandria]

09:06 PM on 06/30/2011

Jerusalem will look better when it's reduced to chard ruins - punking all the Abrahamic faiths.

[Benjamin Rosenfeld]

11:05 AM on 07/01/2011

Chard ruins? You believe that it should be turned in to vegetable scraps?

[HAlexandria]

05:59 PM on 07/01/2011

It's the environmentally friendly option, making the cesspool of religious/nationalist douchbagary good for something.

[Ned Humphrey]

12:23 PM on 07/01/2011

You mean "punking the Jews and the Christians" - Islam's claim to Jerusalem is as bogus as yours to brains.

[HAlexandria]

06:05 PM on 07/01/2011

The Muslim's claim is just as valid as the other, good-for-nothing deluded dochebag's claims....Except Jerusalem is physically located in the Islamic world, and there are a few 100 million Muslims surrounding it.

I'm gong to laugh so hard when they finally kick the Israelis out, which will happen in my lifetime,

"Gawd's chosen people" beaten(literally), humiliated, and forced to flee for their lives yet again... Praise Jaysys!

[ButterBiscuit]

08:30 PM on 06/29/2011

kinda hard to image these days, that not too long ago Afganistan was a Buddhist country

[3dtrix]

12:21 PM on 06/29/2011

I was gonna guess planet earth - but evidently that's not what they meant...

[Ted Tillery]

12:03 PM on 06/29/2011

Recently saw UNESCO World Heritage Site Galle Fort. Amazing natural beauty and historic value. All these should be protected.

http://www.srilanka.fm/galle/

[GraphicMatt]

10:59 AM on 06/29/2011

I need to get out more.....only been to 2 out of the 10.

[20thCentury Man]

03:18 AM on 06/29/2011

All natural environments are higher in importance than man made ones.

[Ned Humphrey]

03:04 PM on 06/30/2011

What total, ignorant nonsense.

[20thCentury Man]

03:06 PM on 06/30/2011

Not ignorant.

[friendlier]

11:31 PM on 06/28/2011

What exactly does the headline of this article, on the front page of HP, have to do with it? It reads "Which Is The Best Photo".

Best photo??

HP, please fire you headline writers. They are idiotic.

[3dtrix]

12:21 PM on 06/29/2011

Here's how it works - they got you here - so they did their job.

Who gets fired for doing their job?

[bingeesha]

09:07 PM on 06/28/2011

hmm...pave this place over and build a mall.

[combot1]

07:54 PM on 06/28/2011

USA's democracy myth.