<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
  <rss version="2.0">
    <channel>
       <title>World Heritage Centre News</title>
       <link>http://whc.unesco.org/</link>
       <description>All the World Heritage News</description>
	   <ttl>240</ttl>
       <language>en</language>
       <copyright>Copyright 2013 UNESCO, World Heritage Centre</copyright>
       <docs>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/rss/</docs>
       <lastBuildDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:45:56 EST</lastBuildDate>
       <image>
            <title>UNESCO, World Heritage Centre News</title>
            <url>http://whc.unesco.org/document/logowhc.jpg</url>
            <link>http://whc.unesco.org/</link>
       </image>


   <item>
         <title>The Director-General of UNESCO Expresses Deep Concern at the Rising Violence in the Central African Republic, at the Heart of the Sangha Trinational Site</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has expressed deep concern over the rise of armed violence, poaching and destruction in the Dzanga-Sanga National Park, in Central African Republic. The site is part of Sangha Trinational, inscribed on UNESCO&amp;rsquo;s World Heritage List in 2012 and located in the north-western Congo Basin, at the meeting point between Cameroon, Congo and the Central African Republic.
Repeated attacks were perpetrated by men in uniform in April 2013 around the  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1006</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
   </item>

   <item>
         <title>RRF grant awarded to rebuilt the Okapi Wildlife Reserve</title>
         <description><![CDATA[On June 24, a group of armed rebels attacked the headquarters of the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, situated in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing seven park staff- and their family members. Others were taken hostage or are unaccounted for. The entire Reserve infrastructure was destroyed and the 15 okapi of the Epulu Breeding and Research Station were all killed. Epulu plays a central role in protecting the future of the okapi by serving as a reservoir for the infusion of  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/912</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
   </item>

   <item>
         <title>Emergency appeal for Okapi Wildlife Reserve (DRC) following murderous raid by poachers</title>
         <description><![CDATA[*Read about new updates
&amp;nbsp;
UNESCO and the nongovernmental organization Fauna and Flora International are launching an emergency appeal to support the staff and rebuild the headquarters of the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in Epulu, a small village in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.&amp;nbsp; On 24 June, poachers armed with AK47 rifles attacked the facility and killed seven people, including two rangers.&amp;nbsp; The appeal hopes to raise $120,000 by 31st July to help the  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/908</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
   </item>

   <item>
         <title>UNESCO Director-General preoccupied by fighting in World Heritage sites in eastern DRC</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, expressed her utmost concern with the recent fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, which is affecting several World Heritage sites. On Sunday June 24, a group of armed rebels attacked the headquarters of the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, killing at least 7 park staff. Others were taken hostage by the rebels or are still unaccounted for. All park infrastructure was looted and the 14 Okapi, a rare forest antelope, in the Epulu breeding  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/905</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
   </item>

   <item>
         <title>Better conservation in Pakistan and the Philippines allow Committee to remove two sites from World Heritage List in Danger</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The World Heritage Committee on Tuesday morning recognized the success of two countries, Pakistan and the Philippines, in improving the conservation of sites that had been inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger: Fort and Shalamar Gardens in Lahore (Pakistan) and the Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras (Philippines).
Successful measures have been taken to remove the threat to the brilliant palaces, mosques and gardens of Lahore, according to the World Heritage Committee  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/891</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
   </item>

   <item>
         <title>Rescuing the Congo&apos;s natural world heritage</title>
         <description><![CDATA[A high-level meeting between authorities from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and UNESCO will take place in Kinshasa on 14 January to discuss ways of strengthening&amp;nbsp;protection of the five DRC sites inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger. The meeting, organized by the Democratic Republic of Congo and UNESCO, will be chaired by the Prime Minister of DRC Adolphe Muzito and UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova.
The five sites in danger include Virunga, Garamba,  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/700</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
   </item>

   <item>
         <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>
   </item>

   <item>
         <title>Belgium reinforces its engagement for World Heritage Sites in Danger in the Democratic Republic of the Congo</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Belgian government has recently given its financial support to the 3rd phase of the project &quot;Biodiversity Conservation in Regions of Armed Conflict: Conserving World Heritage sites in the Democratic Republic of Congo&quot; with a total amount of 2 million Euros.
The five World Heritage Sites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, National Parks Virunga, Kahuzi-Biega, Garamba and Salonga, and the Okapi Wildlife Reserve have been progressively inscribed on the List of World Heritage in  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/577</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
   </item>

   <item>
         <title>Maps of World Heritage sites in Democratic Republic of the Congo presented by Belgian Federal Science Policy Office</title>
         <description><![CDATA[On 13 March 2009 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the latest maps of World Heritage sites produced by the Belgian universities of Louvain (UCL) and Gand (UGent), with the financial support of the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO) were officially presented to the Congo Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN).
The General Director for the ICCN, Mr Cosma Wilungula Balongelwa and the directors of Kahuzi-Biega National Park and Virunga National Park World  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/524</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
   </item>

   <item>
         <title>World Heritage Committee requests close surveillance of Bordeaux, Machu Picchu, Timbuktu and Samarkand</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The World Heritage Committee has asked that &amp;ldquo;reinforced monitoring&amp;rdquo; be applied to four properties on UNESCO&amp;rsquo;s World Heritage List in addition to the seven for which the surveillance mechanism is already in place.
Under the new monitoring mechanism, established by the World Heritage Committee in 2007, regular missions can be dispatched to World Heritage sites subjected to particular stress. The purpose of the monitoring mechanism, which typically involves sending experts  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/454</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
   </item>

   <item>
         <title>Director-General urges systematic measures to end poaching and killing of endangered animals in Democratic Republic of Congo World Heritage Sites</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Director-General of UNESCO, Ko&amp;iuml;chiro Matsuura, has written to Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and to Jean-Marie Guehenno, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, asking for measures to stop the poaching and killing of endangered animals in the five World Heritage sites of the DRC.
The Director-General&apos;s initiative follows reports that several hundred hippopotami and at least two mountain gorillas have been  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/324</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
   </item>

   <item>
         <title>Hippo Massacre in Virunga National Park (DRC): UNESCO Reacts</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Conservation activities continue in the World Heritage sites of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with particular attention given to Virunga National Park, where hippopotamuses are being massacred by the Mai Mai rebel group. In response to this massacre, UNESCO and its field partners have taken the following measures to stop the poaching which threatens to eradicate the hippo population: Alerted the Congolese authorities and the MONUC on the worrying situation of the hippopotamus  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/296</link>
         <author>y.kaboza@unesco.org (Yvette Kaboza)</author>
         <pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
   </item>

   <item>
         <title>Preserving Congolese Heritage in Armed Conflict</title>
         <description><![CDATA[On the occasion of the United Nations&amp;#39; International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict, the World Heritage Centre would like to draw attention to the project &amp;quot;Biodiversity Conservation in Regions of Armed Conflict: Protecting World Heritage in the Democratic Republic of the Congo&amp;quot;. Initiated in 2000, the project continues with the support of the governments of Belgium and Italy, the United Nations Foundation and in collaboration  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/291</link>
         <author>y.kaboza@unesco.org (Yvette Kaboza)</author>
         <pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
   </item>

   <item>
         <title>&quot;Promoting and Preserving Congolese Heritage&quot; Publication Now Available</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The proceedings of the International Donors&amp;#39; Conference &amp;quot;Promoting and Preserving Congolese Heritage: Linking Biological and Cultural Diversity&amp;quot;, held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France from 13-17 September 2004, are now available&#xa0;as World Heritage Paper Series N&#xb0; 17.&#xa0;The publication has been made possible thanks to the financial support of the Japanese Government. The conference provided an excellent opportunity to take stock of the four-year programme &amp;quot;Biodiversity  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/249</link>
         <author>y.kaboza@unesco.org (Yvette Kaboza)</author>
         <pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
   </item>

   <item>
         <title>United Nations Foundation (UNF) Broadens Support for World Natural Heritage</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Marrakesh - The 23rd session of the World Heritage Committee in Marrakesh, Morocco, was informed today that the United Nations Foundation (UNF) would contribute $2.9 million to World Heritage sites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The project, &amp;quot;Biodiversity Conservation in Regions of Armed Conflict: Protecting World Natural Heritage in the Democratic Republic of the Congo&amp;quot;, was approved by the Board of Governors of the United Nations Foundation, at their Meeting held in  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/159</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
   </item>

</channel>
</rss>
