30 July 2022 - 7 August 2022
This year’s edition of the Singapore Botanic Gardens Heritage Festival is held in conjunction with the Singapore Garden Festival. From 30 July to 7 August 2022, the Gardens will bring you through a heritage journey with activities such as concerts, guided tours, DIY trails, and virtual activities! Join for fun-filled programmes curated to celebrate the Gardens' rich heritage: ...
23 July 2022
The goal of the activity is to include the World Heritage site in many of local community activities, and to establish seasonal activities that draw visitors on a regular basis.Active heritage marches across the streets of different cities in homeland Palestine and in all parts of the world, decorated with traditional Palestinian dress for all segments of society, drawing a Palestinian ...
20 July 2022
As Curonian Spit is one of the most vulnerable places in Lithuania and the Baltic sea area, where global warming may cause irreversible change, it is the appropriate place to discuss climate change. Surrounded by waters and buffeted by harsh winds, this narrow piece of land has suffered extreme forces of nature. However, people have never given up on adapting to life here, initiating massive ...
15 July 2022
On 15 July 2022, the final restitution workshop for the pilot implementation of the UNESCO Thematic Indicators for Culture in the 2030 Agenda (UNESCO Culture|2030 Indicators) was organized by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia and the District Secretariat of Culture, Recreation and Sports of Bogota in close collaboration with UNESCO. The workshop was held at the Aurelio Arturo Auditorium of ...
14 July 2022
As part of the monthly Wright Virtual Visits Series, an online program bringing you virtually to Frank Lloyd Wright-designed public sites, we will feature the eight sites that are part of "The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright" UNESCO World Heritage site. We will review the Outstanding Universal Value for each site through a pre-recorded video segment followed by live Q&A ...
13 July 2022
The scientific data concerning coral reefs is now very alarming. Under the current emissions scenario, all 29 World Heritage-listed reefs are expected to experience annual severe bleaching from 2040. This month’s online meeting with marine World Heritage managers will highlight the best practices and latest innovations to monitor, prepare for and manage coral bleaching.
The latest IPCC ...
7 July 2022
Peace is one of the pillars of UNESCO. In an unstable world, the future of nations does not depend only on their economic capital or their natural resources, but on their collective capacity to promote peace, the active participation of each in the new world public space is a condition for peace and development.
The current moment we live in, it is essential to use World Heritage as a ...
7 July 2022
Peace is one of the pillars of UNESCO. In an unstable world, the future of nations does not depend only on their economic capital or their natural resources, but on their collective capacity to promote peace, the active participation of each in the new world public space is a condition for peace and development. The current moment we live, with the war in Ukraine and in other parts of the ...
5 July 2022 - 31 December 2022
A museum display at the Eswatini National Museum on Lion Cavern, the world's oldest mine. Lion Cavern is on the tentative list for World Heritage. It is an ochre mine dating back well into the Middle Stone Ages in Africa and is dated to 43 000 years ago. Ochre was, and is, used for symbolic purposes in Southern Africa, and the mine remains a sacred site to shamanic healers. There was research ...
4 July 2022 - 2 January 2023
50th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention - Celebrating Queensland’s World Heritage Properties: Great Barrier Reef, K’gari (Fraser Island), Riversleigh, Gondwana and the Wet Tropics of Queensland.For more information:Toni ThwaitesExecutive Officer K'gari[Department Environment and Science QLDtoni.thwaites@des.qld.gov.au
1 July 2022 - 30 December 2022
Raising awareness on World Heritage site management, Risk Disaster Management and Sustainable tourism development to the provincial government agencies, district authorities agencies and high schools around World Heritage sites.Paxa NYORDSAVANHAacademic OfficerMinistry of Information, Culture and Tourism of the Lao PDRnyordsavanh@yahoo.com
28 June 2022 - 1 July 2022
The United Nations Ocean Conference takes place from 27 June to 1 July 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal. Marine World Heritage related highlights will focus on environmental DNA, resilient coral reefs, and blue carbon.
Read more about UNESCO’s participation in the UN Ocean Conference: https://www.unesco.org/en/un-ocean-conference-2022
The 2022 United Nations Ocean Conference (Lisbon, 27 June to 1 ...
11 June 2022 - 16 November 2022
The Next 50: World Heritage as a source of resilience, humanity and innovation
From 11 June to 16 November 2022, WHITRAP Shanghai will organize a series of 6 monthly online thematic World Heritage Dialogues (including a WHITRAP Herit-AP Chat in July), co-organized by the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) Tongji University (Shanghai, China) to celebrate the 50th Anniversary ...
10 June 2022 - 31 December 2022
Short promotional animated film "Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija" was produced on the 10th anniversary of the inscription of "Heritage of mercury. Almadén and Idrija" on the UNESCO World Heritage List and the 50th anniversary of the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. The production of the film was financed by the Municipality of Idrija, and the ...