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18 April 2018 is the International Day for Monuments and Sites with the theme: Heritage for Generations. If our heritage is what we leave behind for future generations, we need to prepare young people to protect it—and the best way is through education. The World Heritage Education Programme gives young people around the world the chance to learn about their heritage, and ...
News Score 7.5063477 Date 04/2018
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Mpala Research Centre, Kenya,The Earth Skills Network is a unique partnership between the conservation world and business, which provides training on business planning and effective management practices to protected areas, World Heritage sites, sites on the tentative list, protected area agencies or management authorities in Africa. The call for applications for the 2014 ...
Events Score 7.506038 Date 03/2014
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Thimphu, Bhutan,During the Cultural Atlas Workshop, which will take place on 26 April 2016 in Thimphu, Bhutan, the Royal University of Bhutan and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre will be introducing the very first Bhutan Cultural Atlas Brochure. The team of experts that collaborated on the Bhutan Cultural Atlas was composed of representatives of the Institute of Language ...
Events Score 7.4623137 Date 04/2016
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,The African continent is universally recognised for its cultural and natural diversity and for the richness of its arts. Expressed through its arts, crafts, clothing, cuisine, music, and languages, the wealth of African culture serves as a catalyst for the socio-economic development of the African continent. As the sole United Nations agency with a mandate in the field of ...
Events Score 7.4623137 Date 05/2021
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,The Youth Model of the World Heritage Committee, to be held in Kazan from 1 to 9 July, is designed to attract the attention of young people of the States Parties to the World Heritage Convention to the problem of preservating natural and cultural heritage and to raise awareness  of youth activities related to the Convention, its role and its international importance ...
Events Score 7.416771 Date 07/2012
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Senegal,,A new road across this park has been proposed. Already suffering from intensive poaching the road could open up the park to further depredations. An alternative route has been ...
State of Conservation Score 7.4127226 Date 11/1986
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The World Heritage Centre received today a visit from a delegation of representatives from the Arhuaco indigenous community of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, included on Colombia’s Tentative List since 2012 as a potential mixed World Heritage property. The representatives met with the Director and the team of the Latin American and Caribbean Unit of the World Heritage ...
News Score 7.391965 Date 11/2018
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,“World Heritage governance – Being prepared to manage change and continuity” Site managers of World Heritage sites from around the world are invited to this year’s World Heritage Site Managers Forum (WHSMF), held in the occasion of the 44th session of the World Heritage Committee meeting. Applicants from natural, cultural and mixed World Heritage properties are welcome to ...
Events Score 7.391965 Date 05/2021
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With the current COVID-19 pandemic, the link between environmental damage and pandemics has again been established. Many indigenous peoples have warned over decades about increasing threats to natural heritage so important for their survival. Through their traditional knowledge and their relationship to nature, they have long known that environmental dilapidation can ...
News Score 7.351383 Date 08/2020
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Turkmenistan,,  Illicit excavation at remote sites within the World Heritage protected area of Ancient Merv has been repeatedly noted with concern by Centre staff and UNESCO experts during missions. Since 2001, the Centre has organized, in close co-operation with CRATerre EAG experts, the planning of a systematic monitoring for a selection of monuments at the site ...
State of Conservation Score 7.351383 Date 06/2003
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UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France,Please note that the documents are only available in the language in which they have been presented during the meetingInvitation letter Provisional Agenda List of Participants Final report on the Berlin Meeting Presentation of the final results of the Berlin meeting and strengths and weaknesses of the Periodic Reporting process (Ms ...
Events Score 7.351383 Date 03/2006
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Bordeaux, France,The subject of this colloquium, organized by L'Association nationale des Architectes des Bâtiments de France (ANABF), is the integration of built and landscape heritage in heritage focused territorial planning. The debates will consider the place of heritage and culture, economic development, craftsmanship, know-how and quality of life in ...
Events Score 7.3018723 Date 12/2008
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The 2023 edition of the UNESCO-Greece Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes was awarded to the Gunditjmara community for its long-standing efforts to safeguard and manage the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, a property inscribed on the World Heritage List since 2019. The laureate will receive US$30,000 as prize. The jury ...
News Score 7.268711 Date 11/2023
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Funded by the Flanders-UNESCO Trustfund (FUT), UNESCO starts the development of an online geographic information system for World Heritage Over a thousand properties are currently inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, almost half of which are located in Europe and North America. To preserve the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of World Heritage sites, potential ...
News Score 7.2663155 Date 10/2021
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A new Chinese edition of UNESCO’s World Heritage Review is being launched by the publishing house World Affairs Press of the People’s Republic of China, UNESCO and Ediciones San Marcos (Madrid). The Chinese edition will be launched at the 28th session of the World Heritage Committee in Suzhou on 28 June 2004. UNESCO’s World Heritage Review has been published in English, ...
News Score 7.2587423 Date 07/2004
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The World Heritage Information Network (WHIN) is the global network of World Heritage information providers. It was created in 1995 in order to foster the exchange of information between partner networks and World Heritage sites around the world. In addition to information carried by its partners, news is circulated through WHNEWS, the e-mail newsletter, the printed World ...
Activities Score 7.246764 Date 06/2022
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Maupiti, French Polynesia,A Pacific Islands World Heritage Workshop was held in Maupiti (French Polynesia) from 2 to 7 November 2009. The workshop served as a follow-up of the Cairns workshop held in Australia in 2008 and gathered representatives from almost all the State Parties of the Pacific in order to achieve the following objectives: Build capacities among the ...
Events Score 7.2428904 Date 11/2009
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This compilation of 40 case studies on the conservation and management of historic cities is now available in hard copy format, in English, French and Spanish. The compilation is available online in three languages: English, French and Spanish. This compilation of case studies on the conservation and management of historic cities Developing historic cities: keys for ...
News Score 7.2327147 Date 06/2014
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Shanghai, People's Republic of China,The Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) is an updated heritage management approach based on the recognition and identification of a layering and interconnection of values – natural and cultural, tangible and intangible, international as well as local – present in any city. It is also based on the need to integrate the different disciplines ...
Events Score 7.2327147 Date 08/2014
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