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The Haua Fteah cave is a huge semi-circular rock-shelter in the lime stone escarpment of the Aljabal Alakhdar (the Green Mountain) with the lip of the rock about 60m above the ground and a half circle roof diameter of about 80m. It is located in the Cyrenaica region (North-Eastern Libya) about 8 km to the East of the city of Soussa.
The site was identified as a likely site ...
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World Heritage marine sites are only as effective as their compliance programs, and marine protected areas around the world struggle to combat illegal fishing. With limited resources available for surveillance and compliance, it is vital to have good systems in place to identify hotspots and track violations.
In the four Marine World Heritage sites that make up Eastern ...
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Gesellschaft Für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), the German government's implementing agency for technical development and co-operation, assists developing countries to conserve and use their natural and cultural heritage in a sustainable manner. GTZ has numerous projects dedicated to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity that aid management at World ...
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Montenegro,
Earthquake in 1979 (issue resolved)
Complete review of the current state of conservation is needed (unclear state of recovery efforts following the 1979 earthquake when nearly 70% of the monuments were destroyed)
,A joint UNESCO-ICOMOS mission was requested by the 26th session of the Committee in order to evaluate the restoration of the site and its ...
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Olorgesailie Prehistoric Site is located on the floor of the Great Rift Valley between two extinct volcanoes, Mt. Olorgesailie and Oldonyo Esakut to the south-west of Nairobi, Kenya. Olorgesailie area is in a lake basin that existed during the latter part of the middle Pleistocene period, probably between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago. Discovered by Louis and Mary Leakey ...
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Morocco,
Abandonment of the site and progressive deterioration
Lack of management plan
Legal protection of the site
Infrastructure and Tourism Development projects
,As requested by the Committee at its 25th session, the State Party submitted, in February 2002, a report on the progress on the implementation of the recommendations made in a report dated August 2000, ...
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Pont-du-Gard, France, 21-23 March 2005
Objectives
For teachers:
Provide secondary and elementary school classroom teachers with innovative, user-friendly multi-media interdisciplinary educational resource material on specific World Heritage sites, touchstones of civilization, in support of intercultural learning;
Develop new educational approaches to enhance the ...
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A capacity-building project to enrich World Heritage information management tools and techniques in the Arab States Region, from adequate documentation of sites, to use of recording tools, management planning, and information exchange
Objectives
To make available updated information relative to the Convention to World Heritage site managers in the Arab region and the ...
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Mexico,
Industrial salt production facility;
One mile-long pier construction
,The Bureau recalled that during 1996-97, the State Party, by establishing a Scientific Committee which set up stringent environmental conditions on the proponents of an industrial salt production facility, successfully averted threats which the construction of that facility could have posed to ...
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On 1 and 2 October 2012, a workshop took place in Nairobi, Kenya to launch the UNESCO Africa Nature Programme, which was developed following the results of the second cycle of Periodic Reporting in Africa (2010-2011).
The Africa Nature programme aims to improve the management effectiveness of the natural World Heritage sites in Africa through targeted capacity building and ...
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Representing one of the world’s earliest built settlements, the archaeological site of Bestansur is a unique attestation of a vitally important period in the cultural heritage of Iraq, the Middle East and the World. Bestansur is located in the Zagros foothills on the edge of the Shahrizor Plain, 30 km southeast of Sulaimaniyah city in Sulaimaniyah province, Kurdistan ...
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The network of World Heritage properties was inter alia intended to ensure the proper preservation of the natural and cultural values of sites inscribed on the World Heritage List. Today, as the planet finds itself confronted with the impact of climate change, the existence of this network is proving to be of the highest importance in monitoring changing conditions and ...
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Delphi, Greece,On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports and the Permanent Delegation of Greece to UNESCO in cooperation with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre are organizing an international Conference in Delphi (Greece) on 17-18 November 2022, entitled: The Next 50 - The future of World ...
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The UNESCO Lima office, through an agreement with the National Institute of Culture of Peru, is providing technical assistance for the development of heritage site management plans for the Pachacamac archeological complex and the Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca and Pampas de Jumana. Such assistance requires the expertise of international specialists. The main objective of the ...
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People of Africa, the Americas, the Arab to the future world, Asia, Europe and the Pacific; men, women and children, we are all the inheritors of treasures from past civilizations and natural sites of outstanding beauty. We are all responsible for passing these treasures on civilizations. People of the world, ephemeral owners of the world heritage of humanity, ours is the ...
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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 ...
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1. Funeral site of the Xiongnu Elite at Noyon Uul mountain
Batsumber, Bornuur , Mandal soums of Tuv province
N48 33 44.7, E 106 30 32.5
2. Funeral site of the Xiongnu Elite at Gol Mod I
Khairkhan, Erdenemandal soums of Arkhangai province
N 48 19 38.2, E 101 55 02.0
3. Funeral site of the Xiongnu Elite at Gol Mod II
Undur-Ulaan soum, Arkhangai ...
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(1) Indricotheriinae Fauna Fossil site -1 at Yagou-TalaIndricotheriinae Fauna Fossil site -2 at Yagou-Tala103° 16' 46.476" E 35° 38' 43.414" N103° 19' 36.881" E 35° 38' 10.333" N(2) Platybelodon Fauna Fossil site at Laogou103° 24' 55.927" E 35° 28' 19.826" N(3) Hipparion Fauna Fossil site at Hualin103° 25' 14.131" E 35° 21' 19.102" N(4) Equus Fauna Fossil site at ...
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The World Heritage Centre expresses its deep concern regarding the cargo spill off the British Coast. The MSC Napoli is grounded near Sidmouth's coastline, part of the Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage site, inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2001. The chemical containers and oil released from the ship may represent a potential environmental disaster. If ...
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On 2 April 2009 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris Mr Francesco Bandarin, Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, signed an agreement with INRAP, the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Institut national de recherches archéologiques preventives). The Letter of Intent was signed by Mrs Nicole Pot, Director of INRAP and Mr Jean-Paul ...
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The International Council on Monuments and Sites provides the World Heritage Committee with evaluations of cultural and mixed properties proposed for inscription on the World Heritage List. It is an international, non-governmental organization founded in 1965, with an international secretariat in Paris. ICOMOS is one of the main participants in the World Heritage ...
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1) Jago Dzong: N27 38 59.99 E91 09 002) Yangthe Thuwo Dzong: N27 28 0.00 E89 38 303) Taktshang: N27 30 00 E89 20 004) Tango: N27 28 00 E89 38 305) Gomdra: N27°30' 00 E89 20 006) Thujedra: N27 28 00 E89 38 307) Draphu Senge gyaltshen: N27 28 00 E89 38 308) Tshechudra: N27 55 00 E89 40 599) Tsendong dowaphu: N27 30 00 E89 20 0010) Langthangphu: N27 28 00 E89 ...
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Thirty-seven new sites will be proposed for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List during the 30th session of the World Heritage Committee scheduled for July 8-16 in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. The President of Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus; the Director-General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura; and Ina Marčiulionytė, Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee and ...
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The Tides of Time programme, initiated in 2008 through a partnership with Jaeger-LeCoultre and the International Herald Tribune, has entered its second year.
The year began with coverage of sites such as Sian Kaan in Mexico and the Everglades in the USA. Other sites including the Atoll of Aldabra (Seychelles), Sundarbans (Bangladesh/India), Shiretoko (Japan), and the ...
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Gammelstad, Luleaa, Sweden 27-30 May 2000.
Students, teachers and World Heritage site managers met at a Nordic Conference on World Heritage Education in Gammelstad organized by the Swedish National Commission for UNESCO in collaboration with the local museum.
The objective of the meeting was to strengthen networking and exchange of knowledge between students, teachers and ...
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Algeria,
Earthquake (issue resolved)
Lack of implementation of the Permanent Safeguarding and Presentation Plan
,In June 2001, the Bureau approved a request for emergency assistance and recommended that the State Party implement without delay the 1992 Permanent Safeguarding and Presentation Plan to reduce pressure on the site, keep the World Heritage Centre informed ...
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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 ...
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,The workshop will apply a participatory methodology based upon the UNESCO World Heritage Resource Manual: Managing Disaster Risks for World Heritage (2010). Special focus will be devoted to geohazards risk preparedness, with particular emphasis on landslides, seismic events, floods, and wild fires, through the participation of an interdisciplinary team of highly qualified ...
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Presentation is the explanation of a property and its values to the public (visitors and local people) from established, authoritative information sources; as such it is a largely one-way process of communication.
Interpretation, on the other hand, embraces a much wider concept (in fact presentation is just one element of interpretation) which refers to the full range of ...
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Greece,,The Bureau was satisfied with the positive assessment of the state of conservation of the monuments and expressed its wish that the national authorities take measures to strengthen the protection of this site.
The Division of Classical Antiquities responsible for the management of the site has informed the World Heritage Centre that at present no major problems ...
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Salle des Pas Perdus, UNESCO HQ, Paris,The Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines and the Historic Centre of Krakow are among the first twelve sites inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1978. Poland currently has fourteen sites inscribed on the List, and has worked for decades at protecting not only these places, but other sites of outstanding universal ...
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