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         <title>Two New Episodes of Patrimonito&apos;s World Heritage Adventures Available Online</title>
         <description><![CDATA[World Heritage Education Programme is pleased to announce the release &amp;nbsp;of &quot;Patrimonito&amp;rsquo;s World Heritage Adventures&quot; cartoon series.&amp;nbsp;The mentioned episodes are dedicated to celebrate the&amp;nbsp;40th anniversary&amp;nbsp;of the World Heritage Convention.




  



Episode 10thLebanon (Sustainable Development for the Site of Ouaid Qadisha and the Forest of the Cedars of gods)
&quot;Patrimonito in Lebanon: Sustainable Development for the Site of Ouadi Qadisha and the Forest of  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1009</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Climate change threatens UNESCO World Heritage sites</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The threats posed by climate change to natural and cultural sites on UNESCO&apos;s World Heritage List are outlined in a new UNESCO publication, &quot;Case Studies on Climate Change and World Heritage&quot;*. The report features 26 examples - including the Tower of London, Kilimanjaro National Park and the Great Barrier Reef - case studies that are representative of the dangers faced by the 830 sites inscribed on the World Heritage List.
&quot;The international community now widely agrees that climate change  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/319</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>UNESCO Director-General launches &quot;heritage alert” for the Middle East</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Director-General of UNESCO, Ko&#xef;chiro Matsuura, today launched an alert to protect heritage in the Middle East. The full text of the declaration follows: &amp;quot;The heritage site of Tyre is under threat.&amp;quot;UNESCO has already launched two urgent appeals to the belligerents to ensure that the hostilities spare the site and its surroundings, which are part of the ancestral heritage of humanity, and avert the total destruction feared by all.&amp;quot;I am compelled to renew this appeal and  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/276</link>
         <author>i.le-fournis@unesco.org (Isabelle Le Fournis)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>UNESCO World Heritage Committee Adds 30 Sites to World Heritage List</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Kyoto,Japan - UNESCO&apos;s World Heritage Committee, meeting in Kyoto since November 30, has added 30 new sites and one extension to its World Heritage List of cultural and natural sites, bringing the number of listed sites of &amp;quot;exceptional universal value&amp;quot; to 582 in 114 countries. For the first time, the List includes sites located in Belgium and the Solomon Islands. Among this year&apos;s additions, the Committee added the archaeological site of Troy, in Turkey, the Summer Palace in  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/164</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 1998 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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