Komodo joins Seven Wonders of Nature field
JAKARTA – The New7Wonders Foundation has named three destinations in Indonesia – Komodo Island national park, Lake Toba and Krakatau island – in its quest to find the new7wonders of nature.
There are currently 77 nominations for the New7Wonders of Nature, with the winner due to be announced in 2010.
Only one national nominee per country, the highest ranked on December 31, 2008, will be eligible to proceed into 2009.
Voting for nominees will continue through July 7, 2009. Then the New7Wonders of Nature panel of experts, under the leadership of Prof. Federico Mayor, former director-general of UNESCO, will review the top nominees and choose the 21 finalists, to be announced in July 2009.
These finalists will then be put to popular vote.
Currently the field of nominees is led by the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park, located about 50 km north of the city of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines, followed by Halong Bay in Vietnam and Cox’s Bazar Beach, Bangladesh.
Ian Jarrett
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