The World Heritage

The World Heritage


The World is our inheritance It is mine, yours and ours too 
So let us look after it well for the nations of tomorrow
The peaceful waters of Lake Victoria 
The magnificent Victoria Falls and the graceful waters of the Danube 
with its bird life and the 
meandering Mississippi and Missouri Rivers
I lookup and what do I see and what do I see? 
I see the beautiful landscape and the ancient ruins of Zimbabwe 
The mysterious pyramids of Egypt in the land of the Pharaohs 
I see the ancient walls of Jerusalem and the Great Wall of China
I look up and I see 
The mighty Drakensburg Mountains 
The steep hills of Muchinga Escarpment 
The Himalayas and Urals of Russia 
I count the Rockies of Canada and the breathtaking Kilimanjaro.
So, you, me and the people out there 
The world is our heritage 
It is yours to preserve 
Do not destroy our World Heritage 
Do not level the beautiful landscape and the mountains 
Do not destroy the national parks and their wildlife 
Nor the forest and the jungles of the Congo and the Amazon 
Please save and preserve our World Heritage. 
BY
Mauyaneyi Marebesa, Student, Zambia, World Heritage Youth 
Forum, Victoria Falls, Zambia and Zimbabwe


Thus was culled from http://whc.unesco.org/uploads/activities/documents/activity-54-19.pdf and posted by B.AMRITH BHARGAV