World Heritage site may lose its status

A contributor has sent me a copy of an article in the Daily Telegraph of Thursday 14 September headed "Developers threaten Italy's heritage sites". In the article it says (in part):

"One of Italy's most beautiful areas of natural beauty, the Val d'Orcia, is at risk of losing its status as a Unesco World Heritage Site after property companies began marketing newly built homes inside the protected area. .....Francesco Bandarin, the director of Unesco's World Heritage Centre in Paris, visited the Val d'Orcia last weekend to assess the damage. The organisation is beginning procedures to consider whether the area, given the prestigious world heritage status for its scenery and hill top town that inspired Renaissance painters, should be delisted. ....."

World Heritage status is not for life - it can be taken away.