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         <title>Rosewood Poaching Turns Violent; Rapid Response Facility Provides Emergency Support</title>
         <description><![CDATA[On the 3rd of May, the Rapid Response Facility (RRF) received a request for emergency support in confronting a surge of rosewood poaching in Dong Phayayen Kao Yai Forest Complex World Heritage site.&amp;nbsp; The petitioners/advocates explained that poaching was becoming more organized and had for the first time turned deadly.&amp;nbsp; On March 14th, 33 year-old Thaweesak Chomyong, a park ranger, was shot by a band of poachers he and his colleagues had encountered while on patrol.
The Dong  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1010</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 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>Norwegian Fjords and Japan&apos;s Shiretoko peninsula are among the seven natural sites added to UNESCO&apos;s World Heritage List</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Durban (South Africa), The World Heritage Committee chaired by Themba Wakashe, South Africa&amp;rsquo;s Deputy Director-General for Heritage and National Archives, today inscribed seven natural sites on UNESCO&amp;rsquo;s World Heritage List. The Committee also made decisions concerning two natural sites already on the List. The one is extended in size while the inscription of the other under cultural criteria makes it both a natural and cultural site.With today&amp;rsquo;s inscriptions, UNESCO World  ...]]></description>
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         <author>r.amelan@unesco.org (Roni Amelan, UNESCO Press Relations)</author>
         <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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