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         <title>UNESCO and the Fondation Franz Weber partner for World Heritage preservation</title>
         <description><![CDATA[On 10 January 2013, UNESCO and the Fondation Franz Weber of Switzerland signed a five-year agreement to reinforce support for the Rapid Response Facility, and to develop a new project for the sustainable preservation of the Dja Faunal Reserve in Cameroon.
The partnership will reinforce the ability of the Rapid Response Facility (RRF) to respond to serious risks to World Heritage sites. Created in 2006, RRF is a small grants programme jointly operated by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/985</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>World Heritage in the Congo Basin</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The World Heritage Centre has recently published a new booklet entitled &quot;World Heritage in the Congo Basin&quot;.
This publication is intended for both biodiversity specialists and the general public. It provides detailed information on&amp;nbsp;two important initiatives undertaken by the World Heritage Centre for the preservation of natural heritage in Central Africa. The first initiative, &quot;Biodiversity in Regions of Armed Conflict: Protecting World Heritage Sites in the Democratic Republic of the  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/617</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>[in French only] Le Comite de pilotage oriente les actions CAWHFI de l&apos;ann&#xe9;e 2008 sur deux priorit&#xe9;s : le renforcement de la gestion des aires prot&#xe9;g&#xe9;es, l&apos;implication effective des acteurs  ...</title>
         <description><![CDATA[[in French only] Les 10 et 11 mars 2008 la troisi&amp;egrave;me session du Comit&amp;eacute; de pilotage annuel de l&apos;initiative pour le Patrimoine Mondial Forestier d&apos;Afrique Centrale (CAWHFI) s&apos;est tenue &amp;agrave; Brazzaville, sous la Pr&amp;eacute;sidence de la Commission des For&amp;ecirc;ts d&apos;Afrique centrale (COMIFAC). Cette initiative vise &amp;agrave; renforcer la gestion durable de trois complexes &amp;eacute;cologiques forestiers transfrontaliers du Bassin du Congo. Il s&apos;agit des complexes TRIDOM  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/423</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>CAWHFI Steering Committee validates the annual action plan: Sustainable management of ecological landscapes and reinforced collaboration between stakeholders</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The annual steering committee of the Central Africa World Heritage Forest Initiative (CAWHFI) took place in Libreville on March 21-22, 2007 under the aegis of the Central Africa Forest Commission (COMIFAC). This initiative aims to improve sustainable management of three forest landscapes of the Congo Basin: the Gamba-Conkouati complex, the Tri-National Sangha complex (TNS) and the Tri-National Dja-Odzala-Minkebe complex (TRIDOM). These transboundary landscapes encompass twelve protected  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/325</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Economy Minister Confirms French Commitment to Protect Congo Forests</title>
         <description><![CDATA[On April 13, 2006, Mr. Breton, French Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry met with Mr. Doumba, Minister of Forest Economy, Water, Fisheries and National Parks, Mme Raonimarahy, UNESCO&amp;#39;s representative in Gabon, and Mr. S&#xe9;verino, Director General of the French Development Agency, at the presidential palace of Libreville to confirm France&amp;#39;s commitment to the protection of forest biodiversity in the Congo Basin. This engagement corresponds to the financing of a new component  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/259</link>
         <author>c.hance@unesco.org (Cédric Hance)</author>
         <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>First Steering Committee of the Central Africa World Heritage Forest Initiative</title>
         <description><![CDATA[On February 13-16, 2006, the World Heritage Centre organized the Steering Committee of the Central Africa World Heritage Forest Initiative (CAWHFI) in Libreville, Gabon. During this event, conservators and wildlife directors of the Congo, Cameroon, Gabon and the Central African Republic met with representatives of the United Nations Foundation, World Wildlife Fund for Nature, Wildlife Conservation Society, Cybertracker Conservation and the UNESCO-World Heritage Centre to discuss the  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/233</link>
         <author>c.hance@unesco.org (Cédric Nathanaël Hance)</author>
         <pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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