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         <title>World Heritage sites participate in Earth Hour 2013</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Once again UNESCO will partner with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) for Earth Hour,&amp;nbsp;one of the world&apos;s largest and most well-known environmental campaigns in the world. UNESCO has invited World Heritage sites to participate in this initiative by switching off the lights on the night of Earth Hour: Saturday,&amp;nbsp;23 March 2013, from 8:30 to 9:30pm local time.&amp;nbsp;
The Earth Hour campaign began in 2007, and has grown each year. In 2011, 1.8 billion people participated in 5251 cities in 135  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/993</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>World Heritage sites participate in Earth Hour</title>
         <description><![CDATA[UNESCO will partner with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) for Earth Hour,&amp;nbsp;one of the world&apos;s largest and most well-known environmental campaigns in the world. UNESCO has invited World Heritage sites to participate in this initiative by switching off the lights on the night of Earth Hour: Saturday, 31 March 2012, from 8:30 to 9:30pm local time.&amp;nbsp;The lights will also be switched off at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France.
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova says, &quot;As a leading advocate  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/861</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Twenty-two new sites inscribed on UNESCO&apos;s World Heritage List, and one deleted during Committee meeting in Christchurch</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Christchurch, New Zealand, 29 June - The World Heritage Committee inscribed 22 new sites on UNESCO&amp;#39;s World Heritage List during its ongoing session in Christchurch. The new inscriptions include 16 cultural, five natural and one mixed, cultural and natural property. In a decision unprecedented in the history of UNESCO&amp;#39;s Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, the Committee deleted one property, the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, from the List because  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/365</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>World Heritage Committee inscribes four new cultural sites on UNESCO&apos;s World Heritage List</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The World Heritage Committee on Thursday afternoon inscribed four cultural sites on UNESCO&amp;#39;s World Heritage List: Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine and its Cultural Landscape (Japan), Parthian Fortresses of Nisa (Turkmenistan), Sydney Opera House (Australia), and the Red Fort Complex (India). The Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine, south-west of Honshu Island, is a cluster of mountains, rising to 600 metres and interspersed by deep river valleys featuring the archaeological remains of large-scale mines,  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/360</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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