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Curonian Spit's UNESCO status highlights its human-shaped landscape

Original: The Curonian Spit’s UNESCO listing reflects its status as a “cultural landscape”, shaped by both nature and by human act

The Curonian Spit, the shared Lithuania-Russia sand spit on the Baltic Sea, holds UNESCO World Heritage status as a 'cultural landscape'. Its listing reflects a combination of natural processes and human history: deforestation in the 17th and 18th centuries destabilised the dunes, fishing villages developed along its length, and dune stabilisation work continues. It remains a dynamic, shifting environment that people have had to manage.

Why now: The unusual interplay of nature and human intervention in this World Heritage site is being highlighted and discussed.

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• The Curonian Spit’s UNESCO listing reflects its status as a “cultural landscape”, shaped by both nature and by human activity (e.g. it was destabilised by 17–18th C. logging, the site of fishing villages, ongoing dune stabilisation efforts). It’s a dynamic environment,… · oCDo@mastodon.nz · 4

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