PARIS: The United Nations has fast-tracked a vast antelope migration path in South Sudan onto its list of World Heritage in Danger, in the young nation’s first such listing.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) added the so-called Boma-Badingilo migratory landscape to its list on Sunday. The grassland and woodland savannahs that cover some 37,500 square kilometres — an area larger than Belgium — are viewed as under threat from both war and climate change.

One million animals — including antelopes and gazelles — migrate through the vast wilderness located between the White Nile and the Ethiopian border every year, leaving scars on the grasslands that are visible from the sky.

South Sudan has been the scene of a series of deadly conflicts since gaining its independence in 2011.

Published in Dawn, July 28th, 2026