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The National Center for Heritage Development with conference host, the Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor, announce Rally III for America's Real Places: Best Practices in Heritage Development and Cultural Tourism. If you would be interested in becoming a conference Sponsor, Partner or Exhibitor please contact the National Center at 202-885-8910 or by ...
News Score 10.842542 Date 07/1997
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Port Sudan, Sudan,From 9 to 12 October 2018, World Heritage marine managers from the Africa and Arab region will share their lessons learned with the Sanganeb Marine National Park and Dungonab Bay – Mukkawar Island Marine National Park (Sudan). World Heritage marine managers share a wealth of solutions and best practices on how to deal with the conservation challenges they ...
Events Score 10.122846 Date 10/2018
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Room 215 at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha,A partners’ event to discuss experiences around private sector support for World Heritage will take place during the 38th session of the World Heritage Committee. Best practices in partnerships with private sector companies and foundations will be shared, outlining their contribution to the protection of ...
Events Score 10.019626 Date 06/2014
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Queretaro (Mexico),In the framework of the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, the National Council for Arts and Culture and the National Institute of Anthropology and History, in collaboration with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the Government of the state of Querétaro, are jointly organizing an International ...
Events Score 9.859201 Date 07/2012
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The Masaya National Park consists of a complex volcano with three craters that have formed one larger boiler. These are in constant activity and present lava outflows at different dates with signs of the successional colonization processes. The park area contains various species in danger of extinction and is a very representative sample of a Tropical Dry Forest. The ...
Tentative Lists Score 9.821188 Date 06/1995
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The field testing of the World Heritage Centre’s field guide for climate change adaptation in natural World Heritage sites was launched last Friday in Nairobi.  Managers from Mount Kenya National Park/National Forest and the Kenya Lakes System in the Great Rift Valley and their civil society partners gathered for a two-day introductory workshop on the field guide. The ...
News Score 9.682426 Date 02/2013
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On 18 July, site managers of World Heritage sites in Portugal and the Portuguese National Commission for UNESCO signed a cooperation agreement to create the Network of World Heritage Sites in Portugal. The event was hosted by the University of Coimbra (UC) and covered by UC Television Web. Through this agreement all partners have committed to promoting cooperation between ...
News Score 9.577841 Date 08/2014
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,Awarded biennially, the Equator Prize recognizes community-based initiatives that demonstrate extraordinary achievement in reducing poverty through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in the equatorial belt. Prize winners receive worldwide recognition for their work as well as an opportunity to help shape national and global policy and practice in the ...
Events Score 9.465328 Date 01/2010
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This city has an age of eight hundred to a thousand years. The existence of numerous graveyards inner and outside of the city proves its old texture. Storied and terracing plan of the city is in parallel to the mountain slope. The combination of such architecture with natural landscapes can be a national and international touristy center and the only way of the ...
Tentative Lists Score 9.328697 Date 09/2007
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Hiroshima, Japan,In 2004 a three-year series on the Management and Conservation of World Heritage Sites was launched with a view to better utilizing the UNESCO Convention on the World’s natural and cultural heritage through national policy-making and planning, and the exchange of information on best practices and case studies. The second training workshop in the ...
Events Score 9.1995 Date 04/2005
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Hiroshima, Japan,The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is pleased to announce the Seventh Session in its Series on the Management and Conservation of World Heritage Sites. Entitled Conservation for Peace: World Heritage Conservation Monitoring, the Session will focus on issues surrounding the monitoring of World Heritage sites as required by the ...
Events Score 9.1600685 Date 04/2010
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,The Office for the Protection of the Historical Heritage of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of the Government of Spain is organizing the IX National Meeting of World Heritage Managers on 6 to 8 October 2015 in the World Heritage site of Vizcaya Bridge (Getxo), Spain, inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2006. The theme of the meeting is “World Heritage: ...
Events Score 9.15179 Date 10/2015
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Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve,Every three years, managers of the 50 marine sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List come together to share their best practices, discuss solutions and forge a path forward together. The 4th edition will be held in the Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve (USA) from 4-9 September 2019. World Heritage marine managers all face similar ...
Events Score 9.109089 Date 09/2019
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From 25 to 29 November 2019, experts from World Heritage marine sites met in Indonesia to support the Komodo National Park with the management of its marine component. See the pictures Komodo National Park was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1991 for its outstanding ecosystems and biodiversity. While perhaps best known for the Komodo Dragon, Komodo National ...
News Score 9.015619 Date 12/2019
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The World Heritage Centre launched today the Arabic translation of the publication “Managing effectively the world’s most iconic Marine Protected Areas. A Best Practice Guide”. There are currently three World Heritage marine sites in the Arab region, in Mauritania, Sudan and Yemen. Download Now The publication lays the groundwork for a common approach to a more pro-active, ...
News Score 8.91405 Date 08/2019
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,The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is pleased to announce the call for applications for the Seventh Session in its Series on the Management and Conservation of World Heritage Sites, with a deadline of 19 February, for the session that will take place from 18-23 April 2010 in Hiroshima, Japan. Entitled Conservation for Peace: World ...
Events Score 8.91405 Date 02/2010
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Montenegro,Construction of a dam,[Oral report] This property had been threatened by the construction of a dam on the Tara River, however, due to public pressurefrom within and without Yugoslavia, this proposal had been cancelled.  The Committee noted its satisfaction that this threat had now been removed and congratulated the Yugoslav authorities on making the best use of ...
State of Conservation Score 8.901396 Date 12/1985
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UNEP has published a Sourcebook of Opportunities for Enhancing Cooperation among the Biodiversity-related Conventions at National and Regional Levels, available for download at wcmc.io/Sourcebook. The aim of the UNEP Sourcebook is to provide national focal points of the biodiversity-related conventions and other stakeholders with options to achieve enhanced implementation ...
News Score 8.893714 Date 06/2015
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,The World Heritage Office of the Historic Heritage Protection Directorate of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of the Government of Spain is organizing the XI National Meeting of World Heritage Managers on 18 to 20 October 2017 in Palma de Mallorca. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Living heritage, Lived-in heritage, World Heritage: social benefits and ...
Events Score 8.867142 Date 10/2017
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The Zambezi Source National Monument is located in Mwinilunga, one of the seven districts in the North-western Province of Zambia. The Source of the Zambezi River is itself located some 53 Kilometres on the Northwest of Mwinilunga in Mukangala area and the total area of the site is 36 hectors The site covers an area approximately 36.8 Hectares and was declared National ...
Tentative Lists Score 8.856573 Date 10/2009
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The World Heritage Centre is pleased to announce the publication of the World Heritage Paper #30:  “Adapting to Change – The State of Conservation of World Heritage Forests in 2011” as a contribution to the 2011 United Nations International Year of Forests. There are 104 World Heritage sites that have been recognized at least in part for their forest values.   These range ...
News Score 8.844797 Date 11/2011
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Hiroshima, Japan,World Heritage Management Over Time - Maintaining Values and Significance By focusing on the values associated with World Heritage sites, this series aims to facilitate a better utilization of the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention through providing support to national policy making and planning, and information exchange on best practices and case ...
Events Score 8.836481 Date 04/2007
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Migratory birds are part of our shared natural World Heritage. They depend on critical breeding, staging and wintering sites along major flyways which often span several continents. Two of the world’s largest migratory bird stop-over areas, Wadden Sea and Banc d’Arguin National Park were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2009 and 1989 respectively. This ...
News Score 8.827093 Date 10/2020
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Hiroshima, Japan,The UNITAR Hiroshima Office Series on the Management and Conservation of World Heritage Sites aims to enhance implementation of the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention through providing support to national policy making and planning, and information exchange on best practices and case studies. Newly developed "values-based management" methodologies are ...
Events Score 8.827093 Date 03/2008
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,In the framework of the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the UNESCO Office in Moscow, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus, the National Commission of the Republic of Belarus for UNESCO and Naysvizh National History and Culture Museum-Reserve are jointly organizing the International capacity-building ...
Events Score 8.821708 Date 05/2012
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Galapagos Islands,World Heritage marine managers share a wealth of solutions and best practices on how to deal with the conservation challenges they face. Bringing these success stories together in ways that make them suitable for replication in other marine areas, is a central part of our work. Our Best Practice Guide for site managers shares the marine spatial ...
Events Score 8.791344 Date 08/2016
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Komodo National Park, Indonesia,From 25 to 29 November 2019, the World Heritage Marine Programme is organizing a workshop in the Komodo National Park (Indonesia) in support of the marine management of the World Heritage site.  While perhaps best known for the Komodo Dragon, the Komodo National Park is also home to a stunning array of corals, fish, seabirds, turtles and ...
Events Score 8.767742 Date 11/2019
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UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and the Minister of Culture of Brazil, João Luiz da Silva Ferreira today signed an agreement establishing a regional heritage management training centre in Rio de Janeiro. The new centre will help Portuguese and Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia to implement the the World Heritage Convention. This is ...
News Score 8.686205 Date 07/2010
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An oil spill occurred in The Sundarbans, Bangladesh on Tuesday, 9 December when a small coastal oil tanker sank after being rammed by another vessel from behind, releasing approximately 400,000 liters of oil in the water. The Sundarbans was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1997 and is one of the largest mangrove forests in the world. It lies on the delta of the ...
News Score 8.686205 Date 12/2014
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Petra, Jordan Event The 1st sub-Regional World Heritage Skills Development Course in the Arab Region held in Petra, Jordan (2002) scientifically supervised by ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property). Objectives Enhance young peoples awareness and sense of ownership of the heritage Develop a manual of best ...
Activities Score 8.675371 Date 03/2022
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