The World Heritage Centre has just been informed that a Ministerial Order, signed on 1 September 2011, delivers to SOCO (South Africa Congo Oil) a Certificate of Environmental Acceptability in order to exercise an oil exploration campaign by the acquisition of aeromagnetic and aerogravimetric data in block V of the Albertine Rift (Virunga National Park), Democratic Republic of Congo ...

International World Heritage Expert Meeting on Integrity for Cultural Heritage
Monday, 12 March 2012

Aztec Ruins hosts World Heritage celebration
Thursday, 8 March 2012
On 6 March 2012, Liverpool City Council’s Planning Committee granted outline planning permission for the Peel Holdings £5.5bn Liverpool Waters scheme. The permission is subject to the signing of a legal agreement and has to be referred to the Government which will decide whether a public inquiry will be held.
Experts from UNESCO's World Heritage Centre and from the International ...
Brunei Darassalam and Palestine ratify the World Heritage Convention
Thursday, 8 March 2012

Construction of a women’s dyeing factory in Bamako
Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Patrimonito Korean National Storyboard Competition 2012 - Winners
Saturday, 3 March 2012
Thanks to Quindío being declared as part of the UNESCO World Heritage property, Coffee Cultural Landscape (Colombia), the exploration of hydrocarbons in this area has been stopped by order of the Council of State. The decree was issued less than eight days ago and demands the suspension of all exploration by the National Agency of Hydrocarbons and the Drilling 2010 consortium in the ...
Nominations open for the 2012 MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity
Friday, 2 March 2012
A joint international expert mission to the World Heritage property of Great Barrier Reef by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre (WHC), and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is taking place from 5 to 14 March 2012.
The World Heritage Committee, at its 35th session in June 2011 (Paris) examined the state of conservation of Great Barrier Reef (Australia), inscribed on the ...

3-month trip to India's 28 World Heritage sites
Friday, 2 March 2012

The World's Heritage co-published by UNESCO and Collins
Thursday, 1 March 2012

Patrimonito and Docomodake bring World Heritage sites to young people
Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Expert Working Group releases recommendations for Bamiyan Valley, Afghanistan
Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Heritage Heals in Hiraizumi
Monday, 13 February 2012

Panasonic Eco Picture Diary Global Contest Ceremony held at UNESCO Headquarters
Thursday, 9 February 2012
The Retezat Massif has received a Rapid Response Facility (RRF) grant to undertake urgent snow-tracking surveys in response to a road-building threat through the Carpathian Mountains. This protected area is on Romania’s World Heritage tentative list, and is known for its plant diversity, endemism and rich fauna, including the Eurasian eagle-owl, the gray wolf and the brown bear.
The ...

UNESCO and Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock launch 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention
Wednesday, 1 February 2012

World Heritage Convention turns forty
Monday, 30 January 2012
On November 16, 1972, the international community took a historic step towards safeguarding core, irreplaceable elements of our global heritage when the General Conference of UNESCO adopted the World Heritage Convention. Since then, more than 188 countries have ratified the Convention, and more than 936 separate sites around the world have been designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. As ...