Events

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...