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The
Puerto Princesa Underground River (PPUR) has been named as one of the
“New Seven Wonders of Nature. Arguably five of the Seven Wonders of
the World are waterways based. New7Wonders Foundation (N7W) made the
announcement to a fiercely fought competition from entrants around
the world.
The
seven listed are in alphabetical order:
Amazon (South America)
Halong Bay (Vietnam)
Iguazu Falls (Argentina/Brazil)
Jeju Island
(Korea)
Komodo (Indonesia)
Puerto Princesa Underground River
(Philippines)
Table Mountain (South Africa)
The
Switzerland-based N7 W explained that the results announced were
provisional, based on the first count of votes completed since the
voting ended last Friday.
Bernard
Weber
Founder
and President
New
Seven Wonders of Nature
 "I
would like to thank the many champions, citizens, voluntary
organizations, public bodies, and governments that have helped
promote the New7Wonders of Nature campaign over the past four years,
starting with over 440 locations from over 220 countries and all the
way to the 28 finalist candidates from whom the New7Wonders of Nature
have been chosen. We congratulate each of these participants for
achieving r provisional New7Wonders of Nature status, and look
forward to completing the confirmation process to celebrate each one
in his own official inauguration ceremony early in 2012. When the
New7 Wonders of Nature are confirmed, they will join the man-made New
7 Wonders of the World in becoming part of global memory for
humankind forever. The results will still be checked, validated, and
independently verified. Once the voting validation process is
completed, in early 2012, New7Wonders will then work with the
confirmed winners to organize the official inauguration events. It
may happen that one or more of the provisional winners announced
today will not be confirmed during the validation process,
New7Wonders will issue a media update should this happen.”
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