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First Expert Meeting for Trans-national nomination of Amerindian Rock Art to the World Heritage List
Basse Terre, Guadeloupe,The World Heritage Centre organized a thematic "First Expert Meeting on Rock Art in the Caribbean and the UNESCO World Heritage List, for a possible serial trans-national nomination to World Heritage status of Amerindian Rock Art" in Basse Terre, Guadeloupe (3-6 May 2006). This meeting followed the thematic "International Seminar to identify ...
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Historic City of Ayutthaya, Thailand,The symposium was initiated in response to the decision of the World Heritage Committee on the state of conservation of the Historic City of Ayutthaya World Heritage Site.
The Committee recommended that Thailand hold “an international symposium, in collaboration with UNESCO and the Advisory Bodies, to debate on the conservation ...
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‘Le Pole international francophone de formation et d’echanges des gestionnaires de sites patrimoniaux’ is offering training for French speaking site managers in 2022. The Call for applications is open until 15 November 2021. The 8th edition of intensive international training for site managers "Building together the future of heritage sites: developing and implementing ...
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China,
Unstable archaeological strata and cave roof
Need to prepare the master plan of the site giving priority to the remodelling of the museum facilities
,A UNESCO mission, undertaken in September 1996, revealed a number of major problems, including complete halt of site excavations, since a number of years due to lack of research funds and lack of adequate maintenance ...
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The World Heritage Committee Thursday decided to extend the site inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2004 as Dečani Monastery (Serbia) and place it on the List of World Heritage in Danger. The Committee also extended Andorra‘s site of Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley (Andorra), adding a buffer zone to the property that was listed in 2004. These inscriptions end ...
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China,,The Bureau may recall the fact that UNESCO, in co-operation with UNEP's Bureau for Industry and Environment, located in Paris, and the Chinese Ministry of Environment, convened an international seminar in this World Heritage Site, in 1991. The outcome of the seminar alerted the Chinese authorities to the growing negative impacts of unregulated tourism development in ...
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Türkiye,,As regards the site of Goreme in Turkey, the Secretariat informed the Committee of an ICOMOS report indicating two serious problems concerning the environment of this site.
The Turkish authorities advised the Committee of the intent of their government to take all measures required for the protection of this vulnerable site.
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A new website about Ireland's World Heritage properties and Ireland's Tentative List sites has just been launched.
This website contains information about Brú na Bóinne and Skellig Michael, the two Irish World Heritage sites, and the seven properties inscribed on Ireland's Tentative List. The website also includes galleries of stunning photographs of the ...
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The World Heritage Committee will consider requests for the inscription of 45 new sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List when it meets for its 31st session in Christchurch, New Zealand, from 23 June to 2 July.During the session, the Committee will also examine a strategy to reduce risks from disasters at World Heritage properties; the impact of climate change on World ...
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The French Grand Sites Network and its International Training and Exchange Centre for Francophone Heritage Sites Managers organized recently an “Exchange Workshop on management and valorization of paleo-metallurgical sites”. From the 20th to the 24th of May 2013, this workshop gathered sixteen managers of patrimonial sites and paleo-metallurgical experts of ...
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UNESCO is launching a call for UNESCO designated sites including Biosphere Reserves, UNESCO Global Geoparks and World Heritage sites, as well as elements of the Intangible Cultural Heritage to benefit from the capacity building support of the UNESCO Earth Network.
Earlier this month, a call for volunteer experts including young people was launched.
The programme aims at ...
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Côte d'Ivoire,,New information: IUCN received a copy of the report provided to the World Heritage Centre, prepared by a scientist, from the Centre de Recherche en Ecologie from Côte d'Ivoire entitled “Evaluation de l’état actuel du parc national de la Comoé”. The report outlines the serious threat of poaching to the wildlife of ...
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The major component of Imperial Kiln Sites of Jingdezhen is the Imperial Kiln Site, which fired, produced and served porcelains for the imperial family during Ming and Qing dynasties. It includes porcelain-firing workshops and kilns ruins as well as those abundant porcelain pieces of Ming and Qing dynasties deposited underground. There also exist several civil kiln sites ...
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UNESCO has piloted an online training course on climate change adaptation and resilience in two natural World Heritage sites in Africa, with site managers from Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe / Zambia) and Salonga National Park (Democratic Republic of Congo) joining. The outcome reveals the vulnerability of sites to climate change but offers options to reduce ...
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In the Framework of Priority Africa, UNESCO intends to empower African institutions and professionals to safeguard better and promote UNESCO World Heritage properties on the Continent.
Capacity development is, therefore, one of the hallmarks of the new Strategy for World Heritage in Africa. For that, the World Heritage Centre (WHC), in close collaboration with the African ...
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Finland has taken the lead in applying the Enhancing our Heritage (EoH) management effectiveness assessment toolkit to cultural World Heritage sites. Finnish representatives participated in a World Heritage Nordic Foundation regional workshop on management planning for Nordic countries in 2009 in which the EoH toolkit had been presented. They were impressed by ...
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Türkiye,Management issues,
This mixed site was inscribed on the World Heritage List by the Committee in 1988. IUCN had drawn the attention of the Bureau, at its fourteenth session, to the problem of over-use of this site by tourists. Subsequently, the Ministry of Culture of Turkey organized an international workshop from 1-3 July 1991, to discuss a draft ...
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Africa is underrepresented on the World Heritage List, particularly concerning archaeological sites. This is why it is important to assist countries in the preparation of nominations.
In a territory approximately 350 km long and 100 km wide, on either side of the border separating Gambia and Senegal, there is a series of megalithic sites characterised by four major types ...
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UNESCO’s Heritage Emergency Fund (HEF) supported an on-site firefighting training on 7 December 2020 for local communities and site management at the Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi World Heritage site in Uganda organized by the Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities Department of Museums and Monuments.
The training is part of an ongoing HEF project for “Post-fire ...
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The Kalambo falls prehistoric settlement is located about 30 kilometres North-West of Mbala district, Northern province. The site was excavated by professor John desmond Clark duringthe period 1956-1959. The excavations conducted in the lake-beds revealed exposed a stone age sequence extending from the early stone age through to the iron age, most of it stratified in ...
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In November 2002 the Guatemalan authorities sent an updated tentative list of 16 sites eligible for nomination process for UNESCO World Heritage status. The relevance of Mayan sites, the potential for improving the representation of Mayan sites on the World Heritage list, and the linking of some proposals with pre-existing sites became clear. A mission for Preparatory ...
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Both ICOMOS and ICCROM have recently established new addresses on the World Wide Web. In addition to its site at www.icomos.org in North America, ICOMOS now also has a second site in Europe, www.international.icomos.org. Both sites contain the same materials, and users should choose the site which is closest to them for access.ICCROM, which until recently has shared space ...
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Indonesia,a) Lack of a permanent site management authority to ensure co-ordination between conservation, research and development agencies;
b) Poor site presentation and museum display;
c) Lack of a comprehensive management plan to ensure conservation and development of the site.,Sangiran is one of the largest fossil sites in the world and contains potentially important ...
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Forty-eight sites will be considered for inscription on UNESCO’s World Heritage List of outstanding cultural and natural sites during the 28th session of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, which will meet at the Urban Planning Convention Center in Suzhou (China) from June 28 to July 7.
UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura will address the inaugural session of the ...
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A site goes through a nomination process before being considered for inscription by the World Heritage Committee. A site can be proposed for inscription only by the country in which the property is located.
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Kernavė Archaeological Site (Cultural Reserve of Kernavė) World Heritage site has been given "enhanced protection" status by the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, which held its sixth meeting at UNESCO Headquarters from 14 to 16 December.
The status had also been requested for two World Heritage sites in Azerbaijan: Walled ...
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Istanbul, Turkey, 17 July—The World Heritage Committee, meeting in Istanbul, Turkey from 10 to 17 July with Ambassador, Director General of Cultural Affairs and Promotion Abroad of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Lale Ulker as its Chairperson has inscribed 21 sites on the World Heritage List. They include 12 cultural sites, six natural and three mixed sites. The ...
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Central Point Coordinates of Yue Kiln Sites at Shanglin Lake: N 30°07′50″, E 121°19'35''
Central Point Coordinates of Longquan Kiln Sites at Dayao:
Dayao (N 27°56′16″, E 119°0′08″)
Xikou (N 27°54′35″, E 118°59′07″)
Jincun Village (N 27°48′50″, E ...
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Jordan,
impact of new hotels under construction in the vicinity of the World Heritage site of Petra
insufficiency or non-existence of sewage disposal facilities
uncontrolled development of villages in the vicinity of the site
proliferation of shops
insufficient conservation of antiquities
construction or road widening projects leading to the site
other encroachments upon ...
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Jordan,
impact of new hotels under construction in the vicinity of the World Heritage site of Petra
insufficiency or non-existence of sewage disposal facilities
uncontrolled development of villages in the vicinity of the site
proliferation of shops
insufficient conservation of antiquities
construction or road widening projects leading to the site
other encroachments upon ...
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Marrakesh - UNESCO's World Heritage Committee, meeting in Marrakech (Morocco) since November 29, has today included four new sites on its List of World Heritage in Danger. They are the Iguacu National Park (Brazil), the Rwenzori Mountains (Uganda), the Salonga National Park (Democratic Republic of the Congo) and the Groups of Monuments at Hampi (India). The inclusion of ...
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The 40th session of the World Heritage Committee is taking place in Istanbul from 10 to 20 July 2016, and we are extremely grateful to Turkey for generously hosting this session.
Turkey is a country at the crossroads between Europe and Asia, with a diverse heritage of civilizations that have been a cultural and historical influence worldwide. It is home to fifteen World ...
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Three World Heritage sites in Cyprus and a fourth in Italy have been given "enhanced protection" status by the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, which held its fifth meeting at UNESCO Headquarters from 22-24 November. The sites, which are the first to be granted this status, are Choirokoitia, Paphos (sites I and II) and the ...
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Lubeck, Germany,UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Europe - A Network for Cultural Dialogue and Cultural Tourism This international conference will seek to develop forms of co-operation for the foundation of a European UNESCO World Heritage Sites Network. As outstanding examples of European cultural and natural heritage, World Heritage sites may significantly contribute to the ...
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The World Heritage Committee at its twenty-third session held in Marrakesh (Morocco) from 29 November to 4 December 1999, adopted the conclusions and recommendations of the mission of international experts sent to the Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino (Mexico). The Committee endorsed the main findings of the mission's report which "concluded that the World Heritage site under ...
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