The UNESCO World Heritage Committee extended one last chance to Bulgaria Monday regarding the Pirin National park. The news was reported 30 NGOs known as Bulgaria’s “For the Nature” Coalition. The park has been the subject of several checkups done by UNESCO, which led to the decision to either halt the construction of ski resorts there or no later then February 2010 include the Park in UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger with all due consequences for the Bulgarian State.

Italy’s Dolomite mountains and the Wadden Sea along the coasts of Germany and the Netherlands were among several sites added yesterday to Unesco’s world heritage list. The UN agency’s World Heritage Committee announced the additions at a meeting in Seville, Spain.

The Wadden Sea coastline is a wetlands area rich in wildlife. Unesco described it as one of the world’s last, large-scale intertidal ecosystems. It also praised the Dolomites, in Italy’s northern Alps, as ”one of the most beautiful mountain landscapes anywhere.”