Climate change and extreme weather events pose a real risk to the world’s heritage sites — a stark reality laid bare by the recent wildfire in Jasper, Alta.
Canada has 22 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) world heritage sites, most of which are at high risk of disruption due to climate change and their particularly vulnerable location.
The catastrophic wildfire to recently hit Jasper burned significant parts of Jasper National Park, which — along with Banff, Kootenay and Yoho — forms a part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks.
