{"id":159929,"date":"2026-11-08T04:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T04:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159929"},"modified":"2026-11-08T04:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T04:00:32","slug":"only-a-fraction-of-world-heritage-sites-are-in-africa-china-wants-to-fix-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159929","title":{"rendered":"Only a fraction of World Heritage sites are in Africa. China wants to fix that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAfrica is home to ancient cities, rock art and striking natural landscapes, yet its sites are sorely under-represented on Unesco\u2019s World Heritage List.<br \/>\nAccording to data released by the UN body, of the 1,273 sites on the list \u2013 which are formally protected under the World Heritage Convention treaty \u2013 just 115 are in Africa.<br \/>\nBut as Beijing seeks closer cultural ties with the continent, it is offering help to change this through funding, guidance on how to navigate the nomination process and&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3373662\/only-fraction-world-heritage-sites-are-africa-china-wants-fix\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAfrica is home to ancient cities, rock art and striking natural landscapes, yet its sites are sorely under-represented on Unesco\u2019s World Heritage List. According&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159929"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}