I've been on holidays this last week and I was hoping to find many cards waiting for me at home. I actually received a few, including officials. One of them was from a Russian UNESCO site, Western Caucasus, added to the WHS list in 1999, exactly when I got my 1st card from there, sent by Polina.
Photo by Yuri Avakyan
RU-7578182, sent by Natalia.
"The Western Caucasus, extending over 275,000 ha of the extreme western end of the Caucasus mountains and located 50 km north-east of the Black Sea, is one of the few large mountain areas of Europe that has not experienced significant human impact.
Its subalpine and alpine pastures have only been grazed by wild animals, and its extensive tracts of undisturbed mountain forests, extending from the lowlands to the subalpine zone, are unique in Europe. The site has a great diversity of ecosystems, with important endemic plants and wildlife, and is the place of origin and reintroduction of the mountain subspecies of the European bison." - in: http://whs.unesco.org/en/list/900
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