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         <title>Report outlines ways to improve community engagement through visitor centres at UNESCO designated sites</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The report on the third regional workshop for Europe on &quot;The Role of Visitor Centres in UNESCO Designated Sites,” held between 23 September and 2 October 2021, has been released. During online and in-presence activities, held in Ercolano, Italy, participants explored the role of visitor centres through a sustainable development lens and reflected on their potential as a catalyst for community engagement and more inclusive forms of heritage-led development in UNESCO designated  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2432</link>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2022 16:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Innovative approach to enhancing interpretation of World Heritage properties introduced by the Report</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The &quot;Interpretive Planning at World Heritage Properties in Europe” report published by UNESCO presents the concept, methodology, and outcomes of the first regional training course on enhancing interpretive planning at World Heritage properties in Europe, held in 2021. The initiative aims to highlight the potential of heritage interpretation in transversally supporting the objectives of World Heritage conservation and management, and introducing a participatory, value-based approach to  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2429</link>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2022 12:25:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Call for Applications: 2nd Regional Course on Interpretive Planning at World Heritage Properties in Europe – WH-Interp (Deadline: 18 May 2022)</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The call for applications to participate in the second regional course on interpretive planning at World Heritage properties (WH-Interp) is now open. You have until 18 May 2022, 12 pm CET to apply! The course organised by UNESCO in cooperation with Interpret Europe is mostly aimed at practitioners with a professional role in the management of World Heritage properties in Europe, especially with relation to heritage presentation and interpretation.
The WH-Interp course explores how World  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2430</link>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2022 15:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>International Day for Monuments and Sites 2022: Heritage and Climate </title>
         <description><![CDATA[In 1982, UNESCO&apos;s General Conference established 18 April as the International Day for Monuments and Sites. The Day is promoted by ICOMOS globally, and the theme for 2022 is ‘Heritage and Climate.&apos;
Climate change is one of the defining issues of our time, and among the greatest threats facing cultural and natural UNESCO World Heritage monuments and sites. One in three natural sites and one in six cultural heritage sites are currently threatened by climate change.
In recent months  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2408</link>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2022 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Ocean: UNESCO launches emergency plan to boost World Heritage-listed reefs&apos; resilience</title>
         <description><![CDATA[All World Heritage-listed reefs are at risk of disappearing by the end of this century. On the occasion of the Our Ocean Conference in Palau, Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-General, announces an emergency plan to give them the best chance of survival, with the support of the Global Fund for Coral Reefs. She also calls for an international mobilization to prevent coral reef extinction.
UNESCO World Heritage coral reefs cover over half a million km2 worldwide – the equivalent of the size of  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2428</link>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2022 17:35:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Launch: Mentorship Programme for African World Heritage Professionals</title>
         <description><![CDATA[In response to the call to empower African experts working for World Heritage, UNESCO in partnership with the African World Heritage Fund (AWHF), ICCROM, ICOMOS and IUCN launched the Mentorship Programme for African World Heritage Professionals on 16 February 2022 through an online event.
This Mentorship Programme is developed to better capacitate African World Heritage professionals through mentorship and echoes the appeals from the UNESCO Member States to &quot;Fostering cultural heritage  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2423</link>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2022 18:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Launching Ceremony: &quot;Improving Management Effectiveness of World Heritage in Africa” </title>
         <description><![CDATA[UNESCO and ICCROM held an online ceremony to mark the launch of their joint initiative &quot;Improving Management Effectiveness of World Heritage in Africa” with representatives from UNESCO World Heritage, ICCROM, IUCN, the Ambassadors of Japan, Norway, South Africa and Switzerland, and other participants. This event marks the end of the first set of activities (from 6 December 2021 to 24 January 2022).
This initiative consists of a three-phased programme of concerted online training and  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2422</link>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2022 11:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>UNESCO emergency response to deadly attack in W-Arly-Pendjari Complex</title>
         <description><![CDATA[On 8 and 10 February 2022, attacks involving improvised explosive devices resulted in the death of four rangers, two drivers, one instructor and one soldier, with 12 other individuals hospitalised with critical injuries in the W National Park in Benin, one of the components of the&#xa0;W-Arly-Pendjari Complex&#xa0;(Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger) inscribed on the World Heritage List.
The UNESCO&#xa0;Rapid Response Facility (RRF), an emergency fund established by the UNESCO World Heritage  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2420</link>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2022 15:20:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>UNESCO to conduct an Advisory mission to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris</title>
         <description><![CDATA[UNESCO, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the International Center for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) will undertake a joint Advisory mission to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, a component of the World Heritage site &quot;Paris, banks of the Seine&quot;, from 28 to 29 March 2022, in order to assess the works in progress following the fire of 15 April 2019, as well as its current state of conservation.
The main objective  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2421</link>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Ngorongoro: UNESCO has never at any time asked for the displacement of the Maasai people</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Further to recent reports and inquiries, regarding the displacement of the Maasai people in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area World Heritage property, UNESCO wishes to recall that neither the World Heritage Committee – the intergovernmental body of 21 elected States governing the Convention – nor UNESCO Secretariat have at any time asked for the displacement of the Maasai people.&#xa0;
UNESCO appreciates the importance of meeting the development needs of local communities. In this regard, it  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2419</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (WH-Info)</author>
         <pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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