TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA) – Secretary-General of the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO has announced Tang-e Sayad biosphere reserve will be inscribed on the World Heritage List in two months. 




Mohammadreza Saeidabadi, Secretary-General of the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO, noted that Tang-e Sayad biosphere reserve will be reviewed in the next two months to be inscribed on the world heritage list as the country’s 11th globally registered reserve site.


According to him, Iran has so far registered 10 reserves as UNESCO World Heritage Sites,  including Lut Desert (in southeastern Kerman), Harra Protected Area (near the island of Qeshm), and Dena Biosphere Reserve (located in the Central Zagros mountains), nine of which had been inscribed before the Islamic Revolution.


“The initial stages for reviewing the case of Tang-e Sayad biosphere reserve have passed and the case will be submitted to UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) for final revision,” he said.


UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB), launched in 1971, is an Intergovernmental Scientific Programme that aims to establish a scientific basis for the improvement of relationships between people and their environments.


The World Heritage Committee inscribed Iran’s Friday Mosque and Gonbad-e Qabus Tower during its 36th session held in St. Petersburg, Russia, from June 24 to July 6, 2012. Armenian monastic ensembles of Iran, Bam and its cultural landscape, Bisotoun, Naqsh-e Jahan Square, Pasargadae, Persepolis, Sheikh Safi al-din shrine, Shoushtar historical hydraulic system, Soltaniyeh, Tabriz historic bazaar complex, Takht-e Soleiman, Tchogha Zanbil and the Persian garden are other Iranian historical heritage inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.


By Mehr News Agency