
Best Wishes from the World Heritage Centre
Friday, 21 December 2007

United Nations 62nd General Assembly proclaimed 2009 the International Year of Astronomy
Thursday, 20 December 2007
Bangladesh was struck by a powerful cyclone on November 15 which left more than 3,000 people dead and millions without shelter. While a major international relief effort is currently underway to respond Cyclone Sidr's devastating impact on life and property, UNESCO's World Heritage Centre also sent a team to the Sundarbans World Heritage site, which was badly hit by the disaster. Home ...
UNESCO regrets the U.K. government's decision to cancel the A303 Stonehenge Road Improvement scheme on the basis of cost concerns and hopes that another solution will be found to relieve traffic congestion around the World Heritage property of Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated sites. UNESCO's World Heritage Centre, which has been actively involved in finding a solution to this ...

Renewed fighting threatens mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park
Friday, 7 December 2007

Brasilia celebrates 20th anniversary as World Heritage site
Friday, 7 December 2007
Final “Sharing our Heritages” (SOH) master class in France and Belgium
Monday, 3 December 2007

Djibouti ratifies the World Heritage Convention
Friday, 30 November 2007
Inscription of Old Town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof on UNESCO’s World Heritage List
Monday, 26 November 2007
UNESCO regrets the decision of a German court to authorize the construction of a bridge likely to lead to the deletion of the cultural landscape of Dresden Elbe Valley (Germany)* from the World Heritage List. The status of the property on the UNESCO's World Heritage List is due to be reviewed by the World Heritage Committee at its next meeting in July 2008.For more information please see: ...
Anna Amalia Library re-opens after extensive restoration
Monday, 5 November 2007
Restored Venaria Reale Palace re-opens
Monday, 5 November 2007
Five young heritage professionals from around the world received UNESCO-Vocations Patrimoine fellowships to pursue post graduate research at University College Dublin (Ireland) and at the Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus (Germany). The aim of the fellowships is to help prepare site managers to handle the growing threats to which World Heritage sites - 851 sites inscribed around the ...
Nine new members elected to World Heritage Committee
Friday, 26 October 2007
Members elected to World Heritage Committee
Wednesday, 24 October 2007
[in French only] 16e Assemblée générale des Etats parties à la Convention du Patrimoine mondial
Wednesday, 24 October 2007

UNESCO World Heritage Desk Diary 2008 Now Available
Wednesday, 17 October 2007

Terrorist attacks damage Pakistan Buddha
Thursday, 4 October 2007

International Melina Mercouri Prize awarded to Russian Federation's Borodino Battlefield
Thursday, 4 October 2007
[in French only] Newsletter n° 7 de la Convention France-UNESCO
Monday, 1 October 2007

Donate online to support World Heritage conservation
Friday, 14 September 2007
Tragic accident at Kilwa Kisiwani World Heritage site
Friday, 7 September 2007

New Book on World Heritage Sites in the Philippines
Thursday, 30 August 2007

UNESCO Mission rallies support for the preservation of the mountain gorillas of the DRC
Thursday, 23 August 2007
UNESCO joins United Nations effort in response to Peruvian earthquake
Tuesday, 21 August 2007

Inscription of Lopé-Okanda site (Gabon) on UNESCO’s World Heritage List
Tuesday, 21 August 2007
"Journalisme et Patrimoine Mondial" just published
Tuesday, 14 August 2007
Dubrovnik Saved from Wildfires
Tuesday, 7 August 2007

New Episodes of Patrimonito's World Heritage Adventures available
Tuesday, 7 August 2007

Winners of Patrimonito Storyboard Competition 2007 Announced
Thursday, 2 August 2007

Director-General voices concern over fate of Virunga National Park gorillas
Thursday, 2 August 2007

Virunga National Park: 4 more gorillas slaughtered
Friday, 27 July 2007
In order to avoid any damaging confusion, UNESCO wishes to reaffirm that there is no link whatsoever between UNESCO's World Heritage programme, which aims to protect world heritage, and the current campaign concerning "The New 7 Wonders of the World". This campaign was launched in 2000 as a private initiative by Bernard Weber, the idea being to encourage citizens around the ...
[in French only] Newsletter n° 6 de la Convention France-UNESCO
Thursday, 5 July 2007

Three new sites inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List
Friday, 29 June 2007
Christchurch, New Zealand, 29 June - The World Heritage Committee inscribed 22 new sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List during its ongoing session in Christchurch. The new inscriptions include 16 cultural, five natural and one mixed, cultural and natural property. In a decision unprecedented in the history of UNESCO's Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and ...
The World Heritage Committee today inscribed two natural sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List: Teide National Park (Spain); Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathian (Slovakia, Ukraine). The Committee also inscribed the Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda (Gabon) as a mixed - cultural and natural - site. Four cultural sites were inscribed: the Richtersveld Cultural and ...

World Heritage Committee inscribes four new cultural sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List
Thursday, 28 June 2007

Bosnian Bridge among five new sites inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List this evening
Thursday, 28 June 2007
Christchurch, New Zealand, 28 June - The World Heritage Committee on Thursday took the unprecedented decision of removing a site from UNESCO's World Heritage List. The Arabian Oryx Sanctuary (Oman), home to the rare antelope, today became the first site to be deleted since UNESCO's 1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage entered into ...

World Heritage Committee approves Auschwitz name change
Thursday, 28 June 2007

Natural sites in Madagascar, China and Korea inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage List
Wednesday, 27 June 2007
Christchurch, New Zealand - The World Heritage Committee today inscribed the Galápagos (Ecuador), and Niokolo-Koba National Park (Senegal) on UNESCO's List of World Heritage in Danger with a view to mobilizing support for their conservation. Situated in the Pacific Ocean some 1,000 km from the South American continent, the 19 islands of the Galápagos and their surrounding marine reserve ...
Christchurch, New Zealand - The World Heritage Committee on Monday decided to keep Dresden Elbe Valley (Germany) on the List of World Heritage in Danger. But it asked Germany to provide an alternative solution to traffic management than the bridge currently planned in the site inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2004. The World Heritage Committee, meeting in Christchurch for its ...

Royal Palaces of Abomey and Kathmandu removed from Danger List
Monday, 25 June 2007

Florida Everglades and Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve removed from Danger List
Sunday, 24 June 2007

World Heritage Committee opening in Christchurch
Saturday, 23 June 2007

UNESCO launches the re-erection project of the Aksum Obelisk
Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Agreement to Eradicate Rabbits on Macquarie Island
Friday, 8 June 2007

Virunga National Park: Mountain gorillas remain target for armed groups
Friday, 8 June 2007

Torrential landslide at the Kamchatka Volcanoes World Heritage Site
Monday, 4 June 2007
Annual Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Award Winners Announced
Friday, 1 June 2007
The World Heritage Committee will consider requests for the inscription of 45 new sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List when it meets for its 31st session in Christchurch, New Zealand, from 23 June to 2 July.During the session, the Committee will also examine a strategy to reduce risks from disasters at World Heritage properties; the impact of climate change on World Heritage sites; and ...

‘Managing Rock Art World Heritage Sites’ Workshop Held
Thursday, 31 May 2007
Fire on Cutty Sark, of Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site
Wednesday, 23 May 2007
At its first session in Algiers (Algeria), November 2006, the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage accepted the generous offer of China to host an extraordinary session of the Committee (Decision 1.COM 8). During this session, the Intergovernmental Committee will pursue the discussions initiated in Algiers. The main participants of the first ...
The Government of China will launch a World Heritage Training and Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific Region in China. The inauguration ceremony of this institute will take place at Tongji University, Shanghai with the presence of Mr Francesco Bandarin, Director of UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Mr Mounir Bouchenaki, Director-General of the International Centre for the Study of the ...
The Prince of Wales received the UNESCO certificate for the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape during the inscription ceremony on 10 May 2007 at Cotehele House (Cornwall, United Kingdom). Dr Mechtild Rössler, Chief of the Europe and North America Section at the World Heritage Centre, highlighted in her speech the contribution the area had made to the industrial revolution and mining ...
Mr Francesco Bandarin, Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, travelled to Nicosia, Cyprus, from May 8-10, 2007 to deliver the 4th Dinos Leventis Memorial Lecture. The lecture series is intended to commemorate the figure of Dinos Leventis, former Ambassador of Cyprus to UNESCO and founder of the internationally renowned Leventis Foundation, deceased in 2002. The lecture, entitled ...

“World Heritage Memory Net” is coming soon!
Thursday, 3 May 2007
The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro 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's ...
The annual steering committee of the Central Africa World Heritage Forest Initiative (CAWHFI) took place in Libreville on March 21-22, 2007 under the aegis of the Central Africa Forest Commission (COMIFAC). This initiative aims to improve sustainable management of three forest landscapes of the Congo Basin: the Gamba-Conkouati complex, the Tri-National Sangha complex (TNS) and the ...

UNESCO sends mission to assess the state of conservation of Machu Picchu World Heritage Site
Thursday, 19 April 2007

UNESCO Mission confirms threat to Galápagos Islands
Monday, 16 April 2007

UNESCO-IUCN Mission to Galápagos Islands World Heritage Site
Thursday, 12 April 2007

Rapid Response Facility for World Heritage Biodiversity Sites Exceeds Target
Wednesday, 11 April 2007

'World Heritage: Challenges for the Millennium' Published in French and English
Tuesday, 10 April 2007

Climate change threatens UNESCO World Heritage sites
Tuesday, 10 April 2007
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the UNESCO Office in New York have received a large number of letters from individuals who are concerned about the state of conservation of the Church of St. Cyril - located near Saint-Sophia Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine- and in particular about planned reconstruction works in its interior.Please note that the Church of St. Cyril is not included in the ...
World Heritage site managers and people intending to pursue a career in World Heritage site management are being invited to apply for Fellowships offered through the UNESCO-VOCATIONS PATRIMOINE World Heritage Site Managers Programme. This programme - launched in January 2006 - is made possible as a result of an innovative public-private partnership between the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and ...
Old City of Jerusalem: Publication of UNESCO’s technical mission Report
Thursday, 15 March 2007
The following statement is issued by the Chairman of UNESCO's Executive Board, Mr Zhang Xinsheng. 1. The six Arab members of the Executive Board addressed a letter to the Chairman of the Executive Board on 14 February 2007, requesting that a special session of the Board be held on the subject of the activities under way at the site of the Old City of Jerusalem, in accordance with Rule 3 ...
Old City of Jerusalem: return of the technical mission’s experts
Tuesday, 6 March 2007
[in French only] Newsletter n° 5 de la Convention France-UNESCO
Monday, 5 March 2007

Royal Palaces of Abomey in Young African Hands
Thursday, 1 March 2007
The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, has decided to send a technical mission to the Old City of Jerusalem, inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List and on the World Heritage in Danger List, to carry out a technical assessment of the works on the access to the al-Haram al-Sharif. Following extensive consultations with all the parties concerned, the Director-General requested ...
Huge Settlement Unearthed Near Stonehenge World Heritage Site
Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Publication on Eco-tourism in Central and South Asia Available
Monday, 12 February 2007
Koïchiro Matsuura, the Director-General of UNESCO today offered the Organization's assistance in repairing damage caused by the fire that destroyed part of the historical city centre of Valparaiso, Chile, killing several people, on 3 February. "Firstly, I wish to extend my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims of this tragedy," the Director-General said. ...
On Tuesday 8 February 2007, the Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, expressed his "deep concern over the work initiated by the Israeli authorities on the site of the Old City of Jerusalem, which is protected by the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972). By virtue of this Convention, the site is inscribed on the World Heritage ...
'Management and Preservation of Historic Cities on World Heritage List' Conference Held in St Petersburg
Thursday, 1 February 2007
Concern for World Heritage site after British Coast Cargo Spill
Wednesday, 24 January 2007
