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9852.
UNESCO HQ, Room II, Paris,The “Thinking Ahead” initiative is intended to improve dialogue, communication and transparency among all stakeholders involved in the implementation of the World Heritage Convention, with the objective of enhancing the credibility of the Convention. Summary of the meeting English Francais A half-day meeting was convened by the Director-General ...
Events Score 2.4848924 Date 01/2015
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Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site, UK,The Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site is proud to host the UNESCO Youth Summit on the 27th, 28th and 29th of June 2012. Summer 2012 will be an unprecedented moment in the history of Maritime Greenwich when the site will host the equestrian events as part of the 2012 Olympic Games. This will be an incredible opportunity to ...
Events Score 2.4829793 Date 06/2012
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Cairns, Australia,The Australian Committee of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (ACIUCN) is organizing a Symposium 9th-10th August 2012 in North Queensland to convene experts from across government, academic and NGO sectors to discuss strategic issues for World Heritage in Australia.  It will be the third in ACIUCN’s successful ‘Science informing Policy’ ...
Events Score 2.4829793 Date 08/2012
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Remontant à plus de 12.000.000 d'années, le lac Tanganyika est le plus vieux lac des Rifts Valleys africains. Il est le deuxième lac en profondeur après le lac Baïkal en Russie. Long de 800 km environ et large de 50 km, il atteint par endroits des profondeurs de 1.435 mètres. Avec ses 18.800 km3, ce lac est le plus grand réservoir d'eau douce d'Afrique. Il ...
Tentative Lists Score 2.4809995 Date 09/2007
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On 18 October 2022, schoolchildren aged 10 to 15 years old and Traditional Owners* at the Shark Bay, Western Australia World Heritage site joined the UNESCO environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling campaign as part of a global effort to better understand ocean biodiversity and the effects of climate change thereupon. Amidst clear blue waters teeming with marine life, ...
News Score 2.4809995 Date 01/2023
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Through innovative national debt restructuring and blue bond arrangements, both Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles and the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System in Belize are securing sustainable finance to help conserve their marine World Heritage sites over the next decades. On 19 January 2022, global marine protected area practitioners met online with World Heritage managers ...
News Score 2.4809995 Date 02/2023
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Students from villages near the Dungonab Bay and Mukkawar Island Marine National Park sampled Sudan’s unique World Heritage listed marine area as part of the global eDNA expeditions UNESCO is currently piloting across 25 marine World Heritage sites to better understand ocean biodiversity and the effects of climate change. On 9 and 10 April 2023, 8 students from primary and ...
News Score 2.4809995 Date 04/2023
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From 5 to 12 April 2023, fisheries officers and community researchers defied choppy seas while collecting environmental DNA (eDNA) samples across the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System. The local sampling is part of the global eDNA expeditions initiative that UNESCO currently conducts across 25 marine World Heritage sites to better understand ocean biodiversity and the ...
News Score 2.4809995 Date 04/2023
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High school children from rural villages travelled to iSimangaliso Wetland Park to sample South Africa’s unique World Heritage-listed marine area as part of the global eDNA expeditions UNESCO is currently piloting across 25 marine World Heritage sites to better understand ocean biodiversity and the effects of climate change. In the early morning of 19 April 2023, children ...
News Score 2.4809995 Date 04/2023
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From 3 to 6 May 2023, 11 students aged 10 to 14 from the Banc d'Arguin National Park UNESCO World Heritage site participated in UNESCO's Environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling campaign, as part of a global effort to better understand ocean biodiversity and the effects of climate change. Eleven young people from the 4 schools in the park’s coastal villages of Mamghar, R'Gueiba, ...
News Score 2.4809995 Date 05/2023
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Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru share a common cultural heritage of outstanding value: the Qhapaq Nan, or Main Andean Road. For the past three years the World Heritage Centre has been assisting these countries in a pioneering project: the preparation of a single nomination for the inclusion of Qhapaq Nan in the World Heritage List entailing an ...
Activities Score 2.4809995 Date 06/2022
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Alaverdi St. George Cathedral (first half of the 11th century) is located 18 km from the town of Telavi in the Alazani-River valley. Earliest structures of Alaverdi Monastery date back to 6th century. The present day Cathedral is part of an 11th century Georgian Orthodox monastery. The Monastery was founded by the monk Joseph [Abba] Alaverdeli, who came from Antioch and ...
Tentative Lists Score 2.477041 Date 10/2007
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Tana Toraja Traditional Settlement is a series of 10 traditional settlements or constituents of them, such as burial or ceremonial grounds. The properties are scattered within Tana Toraja Regency in the Province of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Tana-Toraja occupies about 3.205 km2 of a relatively hilly terrain with plateaus rising from 300 to 2,800 meters above sea level. The ...
Tentative Lists Score 2.4742403 Date 06/2009
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Milieu naturel Cette région d’une grande biodiversité renferme une partie de la selva Lacandona – aire de conservation prioritaire-, et présente une diversité de conditions physiques et biologiques qui comprend des écosystèmes de massifs contins qui ne se retrouvent généralement pas dans d’autres sites : forets vierges inondables et forets vierges hautes ...
Tentative Lists Score 2.4742403 Date 06/2004
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Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain,The fourth Iberian Meeting of Site Managers, in the framework of the 40th anniversary of the Convention is dedicated to "World Heritage and Sustainable Development".
Events Score 2.4734578 Date 04/2012
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Peru,a) Delays in reviewing the Master Plan and developing detailed yearly operational plans, and inadequate budgetary support for effective implementation; b) No evaluation of transport options, related geological studies, or the impact of bus traffic on increasing the risk of landslides; c) Lack of impact studies related to the carrying capacity of the Citadel and Inca ...
State of Conservation Score 2.470763 Date 05/2009
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China,a) Progressive loss of integrity and authenticity due to major tourism and commercial developments in and around the property b) No clearly defined boundary or buffer zones; c) Lack of a comprehensive Conservation Master Plan for the property and its sourroundings,The World Heritage Committee in its Decision 32 COM 7B.67 focussed on three main conservation issues: ...
State of Conservation Score 2.4702885 Date 05/2009
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Kenya,a) Illegal forest resource extraction; b) Community-wildlife conflict; c) Poaching; d) Excisions from the property. ,Mount Kenya National Park was inscribed under natural criteria (vii) and (ix) as one of the most impressive landscapes of Eastern Africa with its rugged glacier-clad summits, Afro-alpine moor lands and diverse forests, which illustrate outstanding ...
State of Conservation Score 2.4702885 Date 05/2009
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Ecuador,Mining, Oil/Gas Exploration, Poaching/Hunting; Lack of monitoring system ,The State Party has continued to move forward in the drafting and approval of several regulations under the 1998 Special Law for Galapagos and the legal framework for activities in Galapagos is now almost complete. Despite these encouraging developments, the Special Law of Galapagos and ...
State of Conservation Score 2.4702885 Date 06/2004
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Lao People's Democratic Republic, Ground transport infrastructure (new infrastructure construction, including new proposed roads) Housing (new constructions contributing to the haphazard densification of the main monumental complex) Management systems/Management Plan (lack of a coordinated management mechanism) Impacts of tourism/visitors/recreation Interpretative and ...
State of Conservation Score 2.4696827 Date 07/2024
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