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Thursday, December 22, 2005
Ten years of decentralised cooperation between the cities of Chinon and Luang Prabang sponsored by UNESCO
On the occasion of the celebration of the 10th anniversary of Luang Prabang's inscription on the World heritage list, this brochure presents the spirit, the concept, the process, the practice, the partnerships, the implementation and the ...

Thursday, December 22, 2005
Workshop Held for Identification of Cultural World Heritage in the Pacific Region
The World Heritage Centre and the Vanuatu Cultural Centre (with funding from the World Heritage Fund, and the technical contribution of the Department of Conservation of New Zealand) organized a workshop at Port Vila, Vanuatu, from 5-8 ...

Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Fourth Expert Working Group on the Preservation of the Bamiyan Site issued recommendations for Safeguarding Bamiyan
The Fourth Expert Working Group on the Preservation of the Bamiyan Site was successfully held in Kabul/ Aghanistan from 7 to 10 December 2005. Afghan and international experts working on the safeguarding of Bamiyan issued a list of concrete ...

Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Goldman Sachs declares World Heritage sites “off limits”
Following in the footsteps of Shell International and the International Council on Mining & Metals (an industry association of the largest mining companies in the world), yet in a bold show of leadership within the international financing ...

Friday, December 9, 2005
Town of Bamberg Spared Construction Project Potentially Harmful to World Heritage Values
Ongoing efforts by the Office of the Mayor of Bamberg (Germany) to preserve the Town of Bamberg, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1993 have succeeded:  A construction project in the buffer zone (“City Arcade Project”), which might ...

Friday, December 9, 2005
Cultural and Ecotourism Developments in Central Asia
Within the framework for the project on the Development for Cultural and Ecotourism in the Mountainous Regions of Central and South Asia, there is very positive news concerning activities carried out by UNESCO project partners in Ladakh, India - ...

Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Fourth Expert Working Group on the preservation of the Bamiyan World Heritage site
Bamiyan remains one of the most important examples of Gandharan art in the world, despite the Taleban’s destruction of its two monumental Buddhas in 2001. The Expert Working Group was formed in 2002 within the framework of the coordination ...

Friday, December 2, 2005
[in French only] Sauver les derniers rhinocéros blancs du Nord du Parc national de la Garamba (RDC)
[in French only] Le Centre du Patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO, l’Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature, l’Union mondiale pour la nature, African Parks Foundation et Fauna and Flora International déterminés à sauver les derniers ...