Thank you Hubert!

Am learning so much reading through the nomination texts!

A Forbes article about the controvery surrounding Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene, which most of you guys may already be aware of:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2019/07/13/why-unescos-new-wine-world-heritage-site-is-controversial/#6903de80150b

Liangzhu core zone is now open to public but with limit of 3000 visitors per day. They have 6 time-slots of max 500 visitors each. Also, buying of tickets can be done via wechat (it seems you need chinese ID card to buy). I will try buying online once slots are open or maybe just buy on-site. Reservations can only be done within a week schedule and it seems slots are easily filled up.

Here is the official website (only in mandarin): https://yuding.lzsite.cn/liangzhu_web/index.html#/OrderBuyPage/needtoknow

The world's biggest site, overruled advice, danger-listing a disincentive, mixed messages for Indigenous Peoples – IUCN's key takeaways from the 2019 World Heritage Committee meeting

https://www.iucn.org/news/iucn-43whc/201907/worlds-biggest-site-overruled-advice-danger-listing-a-disincentive-mixed-messages-indigenous-peoples-iucns-key-takeaways-2019-world-heritage-committee-meeting?fbclid=IwAR0bDIosn6unzZoE1lDtghFfq7cR1jLjkDYwlSI1FlwxLjWweunihn6qWrI

https://www.azernews.az/nation/156543.html

More insight into gifting WHS to the host country?

"The significance of this session for Azerbaijan is that the Azerbaijani city of Sheki was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List."