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The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has a stark warning about the future of the world's natural World Heritage sites. It says half of the sites at risk from different industries. The WWF that harmful industrial activities such as mining, dredging or drilling for oil are the future of 114 of 229 sites. Other factors adding to the risk illegal logging and unsustainable water use. All of these in addition to the damage being by climate change. The WWF the sites affected Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the Grand Canyon National Park in the USA, and China's Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries, which home to more than 30 per cent of the world's endangered pandas.

The director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre said it up to everyone to these sites. She said: "World Heritage humankind's common heritage, and the responsibility for its conservation is by everyone." She government efforts at what they take from the Earth, saying: "The WWF's report comes at a time when governments and the private sector around the world are up their action against harmful extractive uses." However, the WWF that more than 11 million people worldwide on World Heritage sites for food, water, shelter, jobs and medicine, and that non-stop development could livelihoods as well as the environment.