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Pompei (Italy),The First Expert/Stakeholder Meeting will take place in Pompei (Italy) on 17 November 2012, within the framework of the project “Towards a governance system for coordinating the updating and the implementation of the Management Plan of the Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata”. This meeting is funded by the Italian ...
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Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City, Mexico,From 22 to 25 October 2013, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) with the cooperation of the Mexican Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) and the United Mexican States, and the National Council for Culture and Arts (CONACULTA) will hold an international ...
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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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,On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1972 UNESCO Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion are organizing two days of debate around the 49 French properties inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Some sites will present their ...
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Room VII, UNESCO Headquarters,A new report by UNESCO, the Church of England Pensions Board, Greenbank, IUCN, and WWF offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the presence and proximity of areas licensed for oil, gas, and mineral exploration and production in and around UNESCO World Heritage sites.
This event will present the report’s findings and explore how such ...
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Située à 22 km de Bamenda, sur la route de WUM dans le Département de la MEZAM, la Chefferie de BAFUT est un Ensemble composé d’un Palais, d’une forêt sacrée jouxtant la résidence du Chef Supérieur, d’une résidence des hôtes qui surplombe la Chefferie, des lieux de culte, deux quartiers de femmes, des loges de sociétés secrètes, le tout constituant une cinquantaine de ...
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Située à une quarantaine de kilomètres au sud de Beyrouth, Saida est la capitale du Liban sud. Le centre historique de la cité, limité au Nord par le port de pêche et au Sud par le tell ancien, est constitué d’un ensemble de monuments médiévaux et ottomans défendus par deux citadelles, le château de la mer et le château de la terre.
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The World Heritage Youth Forum, Cambodia 2013 was held at the site of Angkor, Siem Reap and Phnom Penh, Cambodia from 8 to 16 June 2013, in conjunction with the 37th session of the World Heritage Committee. The event gathered 36 youth representatives from 16 countries, including 20 from Cambodia.
The World Heritage Youth Forum aimed at raising awareness among young people ...
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The Asian World Heritage Media/Communication Training Workshop for young people: "Passing the Culture Message" was held in Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, from 9 to 13 October 2014. Fourteen participants from the Asia-Pacific region participated in the programme, which included the opportunity to visit and film three World Heritage sites: Gyeongju Historic Areas, Seokguram ...
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Tokyo, Japan,the Sixth Expert Working Group for the Preservation of the Bamiyan Site is organized by UNESCO (Kabul Office in close collaboration with WHC) and National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Japan (NRICP) inTokyo from 20 to 22 January 2008
Within the framework of Japanese Funds-in Trust project for the Safeguarding Bamiyan site, much ...
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Message given by the Director General delivered at the Press Conference of the 12th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Nairobi, Kenya (6-17 November 2006)
One of the major challenges of our society is coping with climate change; to this end the need to improve the level of public debate on climate change is vital. Thus, public ...
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Dans le complexe spatial formé du Grand Erg Occidental et de la vallée de la Saoura la stratification dans le temps de l’action anthropique a donné lieu à un modèle original d’implantation d’oasis où le cadre naturel et les interventions dues à l’homme concourent à la formation de l’écosystème. L’oued Saoura a été défini comme un « événement unique dans tout le Sahara ...
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Global Strategy
In 1994, the World Heritage Committee launched the Global Strategy for a Representative, Balanced and Credible World Heritage List. Its aim is to ensure that the List reflects the world's cultural and natural diversity of outstanding universal value.
Twenty-two years after the adoption of the 1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural ...
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According to 34.1 of ‘Rule 34 Decisions’ of the Rules of Procedure of the World Heritage Committee, ‘The Committee shall adopt such decisions and recommendations as it may deem appropriate’.
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Papua New Guinea Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée Papua Nueva Guinea Папуа-Новая Гвинея بابوا غينيا الجديدة 巴布亚新几内亚 Papua New Guinea
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Sibiu was colonized by Saxon settlers in the mid-12th century. They were invited to Transylvania by the Hungarian King Geza II (1141-1162), in order to defend and administer the kingdom's border territory. The earliest written records date from 1191. From 1366 onwards the city became known by the Saxon community as Hermannstadt.
Although Sibiu is an ancient settlement ...
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Mwela Rock paintings are located about 5 Km from Kasama town and encompassing eastwards rock outcrops of Mwankole, Sumina, Mulundu, Fwambo, Changa Mwibwe and westwards 10 Km from the town Lwimbo rock outcrops. The paintings are associated with the Later Stone Age.
The topography of the site is generally fairly undulating and deeper soils are more frequent, where as 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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In light of escalated violence in the vicinity of several historic urban areas in Syria, the Director-General reiterates her appeal of 30 March 2012, to all parties involved in the conflict to protect all Syrian cultural heritage.
UNESCO is particularly alarmed over reports of heavy fighting in Aleppo, which ancient city is a World Heritage site. Strategically positioned ...
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On 16 November 2015, the 38th Session of the General Conference of UNESCO adopted a resolution proclaiming May 5th as African World Heritage Day, in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of UNESCO’s decision to create the African World Heritage Fund (AWHF) (2006-2016).
This Resolution, in line with UNESCO’s Priority Africa programme, is aimed to increase international ...
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UNESCO has been at the forefront of exploring and managing the impacts of climate change on World Heritage, and supports World Heritage sites on climate change adaptation and mitigation activities.
The promotion of renewable energy production is of great importance, as this technology is among the key solutions for the mitigation of climate change and the promotion of ...
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Since 2018, UNESCO World Heritage Centre and National Geographic Partners have worked together to raise public awareness and create public engagement in the field of sustainable tourism development through culture. One of the major initiatives of the collaboration is World Heritage Journeys, a project that aims to increase sustainable tourism at World Heritage sites, while ...
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Tashkent, Uzbekistan,Sub-regional Workshop on Documentation Standards and Reactive Expert Members Meeting of the Coordination Committee, Silk Roads World Heritage Serial and Transnational Nomination
Within the framework of the UNESCO Japanese Funds-in-Trust funded project on 'Support for documentation standards and procedures of the Silk Roads World Heritage Serial and ...
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,iSimangaliso has partnered with race organisers Zululand Multisports Club (ZMSC) and the St Lucia Rate Payers for the iSimangaliso St Lucia Half Marathon. The 21.1km and 10km races are registered with KZN Athletics and entrants for these races must be 15 years old or older, and there is also a race for younger children.
The St Lucia Half is one of three challenges ...
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Philipsburg, St. Maarten,Contributing to the 2014 International Year for the Small Islands Developing States (SIDS 2014), UNESCO and the Government of St. Maarten, through the Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports Affairs will host a meeting on Capacity Building on Heritage Conservation in the Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The main objective ...
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,The World Heritage Centre is organising a series of online training sessions to accompany States Parties in Asia and the Pacific as they carry out the Third Cycle of Periodic Reporting.
This session is dedicated to Factors Affecting the Properties and focuses on the following:
The Periodic Reporting Factors: background and integration with the state of conservation (SOC) ...
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,The World Heritage Centre is organising a series of online training sessions to accompany States Parties in Asia and the Pacific as they carry out the Third Cycle of Periodic Reporting.
This session is dedicated to Outstanding Universal Value & Attributes (Section II, Chapter 3 of the questionnaire) and focus on the following:
Review of the definition of OUV, its ...
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,The World Heritage Centre is organizing a series of online training sessions to accompany States Parties in Asia and the Pacific as they carry out the Third Cycle of Periodic Reporting.
This session is dedicated to Maps & Boundaries (Section II, Chapter 5) and focus on the following:
All the essentials on maps, boundaries and related processes
Introduction / reminder ...
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Mount Kenya, Kenya, 19-23 April 2004
Event
The 4-day program included, besides an official opening, thematic presentations by resource persons from the Kenya National Museums, the Kenya Wildlife Service, the Kenyan National Commission and by the World Heritage Centre. All thematic presentations were accompanied by skills development activities based on the various chapters ...
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The exact historical itineraries of the Silk Roads on the territory of modern Kazakhstan and Central Asian countries were never static. Certain cities, towns, caravanserais and trade stations were gaining and losing importance in the different periods of time due to different internal and external reasons. However, today we can identify several main sections of the most ...
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WHC-15/39.COM/All
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WHC-99/CONF.204/INF.9C Assessment of the Jabiluka Project: Report of the Supervising Scientist to the World Heritage Committee
WHC-99/CONF.204/INF.9C
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Bulgaria Bulgarie Bulgaria Болгария بلغاريا 保加利亚 The Republic of Bulgaria
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Chile Chili Chile Чили شيلي 智利 The Republic of Chile
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Egypt Égypte Egipto Египет مصر 埃及 The Arab Republic of Egypt
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Panama Panama Panamá Панама بنما 巴拿马 The Republic of Panama
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Après avoir abdiqué à Fontainebleau et obtenu la souveraineté de l'île d'Elbe, Napoléon débarque à Golfe-Juan (France), le 1er mars 1815. Il atteint Paris le 20 mars et lève une armée de 200.000 hommes pour affronter les troupes anglaises et prussiennes massées en Belgique. Son objectif est d'affronter chaque adversaire séparément avant de se rendre maître de ...
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The Jesuit Block in Cordoba, heart of the former Jesuit Province of Paraguay, contains the core buildings of the Jesuit system: the university, the church and residence of the Society of Jesus, and the college. Along with the five estancias, or farming estates, they contain religious and secular buildings, which illustrate the unique religious, social, and economic ...
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Le passé d'Arwad, I'antique « Aradus », la petite île de 800 mètres de long sur 500 mètres de large, interpelle sans arrêt celui de Tartus, I'antique « Antaradus », qui lui face sur le continent. Antaradus ne signifie-t-il pas, en effet, la ville qui est en face d'Aradus ? Arwad possède, cependant, l'insigne privilège de remonter plus haut dans ...
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Preparation of new nomination "Western Caiscasus" (re-nomination) resolves three basic tasks:
1. Expand the area of existing World I leritage Site by means of broad leaved old-growth forests (currently not represented within the Site boundaries) of Sochi National Park and Sochi Reserve, located on the southern macroslope of Greater Caucasus and forming almost a continuous ...
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L’église catholique d’Ambodifotatra est le couronnement de dix ans de missions d’évangélisation (1837 à 1847) du Père Pierre Dalmond à Madagascar, principalement à Sainte Marie, Nosy-Be, Tuléar ainsi qu’aux Comores, à Mayotte.
C’est la première église catholique en dur construite à Madagascar, un monument historique qui se trouve sur l’Ile Sainte Marie au large de la côte ...
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Le bien proposé pour inscription comprend le pont routier enjambant la gorge du Salgina entre Schiers et Schuders, dans le canton des Grisons, ainsi que son environnement immédiat.
Cet ouvrage d'art a été réalisé à la suite d'un concours architectural lancé en 1928, trois ans après la levée de l'interdiction de circulation des véhicules privés dans le canton des Grisons. ...
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Malaysia,,In June 2008, the World Heritage Centre and IUCN were informed that the State Government of Sarawak may have planned some hydropower projects (2008-2020) in the rainforests of Borneo in Malaysia. The issues of concern include the development of dams that could flood a portion of the property, and the marginalisation of indigenous communities and their land rights ...
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The World Heritage Fund is used to provide international assistance to States Parties in the following areas: preparatory assistance for the nomination of sites, training activities, technical cooperation, emergency assistance, or promotional and educational activities.
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All applications for professional or internship opportunities must be sent to UNESCO. Please consult the UNESCO website for information about career opportunities and apply online.
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Refers to the conservation, preservation and restoration of cultural property, as well as to its protection against vandalism, theft and removal from country of origin.
Source: http://vocabularies.unesco.org/browser/thesaurus/en/page/concept274
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Costa Rica Costa Rica Costa Rica Коста-Рика كوستاريكا 哥斯达黎加 The Republic of Costa Rica
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Kenya Kenya Kenya Кения كينيا 肯尼亚 The Republic of Kenya
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Romania Roumanie Rumania Румыния رومانيا 罗马尼亚 Romania
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Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint-Kitts-et-Nevis Saint Kitts y Nevis Сент-Китс и Невис سانت كيتس ونيفس 圣基茨和尼维斯 Saint Kitts and Nevis
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint-Vincent-et-les Grenadines San Vicente y las Granadinas Сент-Винсент и Гренадины سانت فنسنت وجزر غرينادين 圣文森特和格林纳丁斯 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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United Arab Emirates Émirats arabes unis Emiratos Árabes Unidos Объединенные Арабские Эмираты الإمارات العربية المتحدة 阿拉伯联合酋长国 United Arab Emirates
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WHC-11/18.GA/7
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WHC-13/37.COM/13
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WHC-15/39.COM/9B
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WHC-13/37.COM/12
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Mausoleum was erected in the XVI century above the grave of Ostana settlement founder Sheikh-Mukhtar-Vali, who was died in 1287. The Mausoleum has longitudinal shape, one of the most ancient of such kind. The composition of this multy-cupola and multy-volumetric monument was built on the long axis from east to west. The plan of the construction has not definite geometric ...
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The Symposium, an activity of the World EXPO 2005 in Aichi, Japan has opened today at the United Nations University, Tokyo, and will continue until 2 June. It aims to highlight the interrelationship between the natural and cultural diversity of our planet. Bringing culture and nature closer together in a comprehensive approach, the symposium will present case studies on ...
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The proceedings of the International Donors' Conference "Promoting and Preserving Congolese Heritage: Linking Biological and Cultural Diversity", held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France from 13-17 September 2004, are now available as World Heritage Paper Series N° 17. The publication has been made possible thanks to the financial support of the Japanese ...
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In an ongoing commitment to sustainable tourism, Jet tours will support two safeguarding projects scheduled for implementation early 2007. The projects are part of a joint endeavour through the World Heritage Centre-Jet Tours partnership to promote preservation and awareness through responsible tourism. On 9 November 2006, the Centre's director, Francesco Bandarin, and ...
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The proceedings of the special session "Heritage and Development: diversity as an alternative" held on 18 December 2009 in the framework of the Africités V Summit in Marrakesh, have just been published.
Organized by UNESCO with the support of the France-UNESCO Convention and in collaboration with the International Association of Francophone Mayors (AIMF), the ...
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Over the last several weeks, the World Heritage Centre has received numerous messages from citizens expressing their concerns regarding a car park project within the World Heritage property “Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th and 17th Centuries: Stato da Terra – Western Stato da Mar”, and the adverse impact it may have on the serial property. The concerned area is ...
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The results have been released concerning the development of management strategies for the Silk Road corridors in Central Asia after the sub-regional meeting of the working group on preparation of the dossier of the Serial transnational nomination of the World Heritage "Silk Road: Fergana-Syrdarya Corridor" held on 2 October 2018 and a sub-regional seminar on the ...
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UNESCO welcomes the decision taken by Mr. Abbas Mortada, Minister of Culture of Lebanon, to halt the construction project at the Archaeological Site of Nahr El-Kalb.
Since 2019, the Archaeological Site of Nahr el-Kalb has been on Lebanon’s Tentative List for potential future World Heritage nomination, and since 2005 on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. It consists of ...
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United Republic of Tanzania,Shortcomings in the management; Lack of financial resources,As IUCN reported to the 12th meeting of the Committee, conditions here have substantially improved over the past few years when the "warning light" first went on in 1983.
Continued support and surveillance is required but the main threats are now under control.
On 2 March, a letter ...
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Niger,Armed conflict,The Bureau recalled that the Committee, at its sixteenth session, included this site in the List of World Heritage in Danger because it was concerned that the region in which it is situated has been affected by civil unrest and that six members of the Reserve staff were being held hostage since February 1992.
The Bureau deeply regretted that two of ...
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Syrian Arab Republic,Reconstruction works,Tekiya Suleymaniah:
In August 1997, three UNESCO experts undertook a mission to the site in co-operation with the Syrian authorities and jointly examined the offers to the tender that the Ministry of Awqaf had launched for the underground consolidation work of Tekiya Suleymaniah. Since no appropriate offers to the tender were ...
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Portugal,,The Bureau at its twenty-second session took note of a report on the impact of works at the River Douro on the World Heritage values of the site of Porto. In response, the State Party by letter dated 16 November 1998, informed that:
- the works would be undertaken at three kilometres distance from the World Heritage site
- due to the distance and the ...
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Bulgaria,
Upstream Iron Gates dam
Deterioration of the water quality
Impact of upstream pig farms
Loss of biodiversity
,At its twenty-fourth ordinary session from 26 June to 1 July 2000, the Bureau noted that a cyanide spill in the Danube River had been contained without any major impacts to the integrity of the site. Nevertheless, the Bureau had encouraged the State Party ...
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Nepal,
Construction of concrete foundations at the Maya Devi Temple site in December 1998
Need for a site conservation plan
Extremely harsh natural environment
,The Centre received an international assistance request from the Nepalese authorities for the organisation of the International Technical Meeting to discuss and initiate alternative draft conceptual designs for ...
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Russian Federation,
Road construction project
Pipeline project
,Following the UNESCO-UNDP mission to the site and the Bureau’s deliberations, information was received in August 2001 from the UNESCO Moscow Office of support for an international consultant to provide expertise to the Republic of Altai with regard to the road project. The Russian authorities via the Vice Head ...
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San-Jose, Costa Rica,This training seminar, organized by the World Heritage Centre, in close collaboration with the San Jose UNESCO Office, the Advisory Bodies (ICOMOS, IUCN, ICCROM) and with the financial support of the Italian Funds-in-Trust, is framed within the follow-up activities to the Periodic Report on The State of the World Heritage in Latin America and the ...
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Porto-Novo, Benin,A training workshop organized by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre on the preparation of nominations of cultural properties to the World Heritage List will be held from 30 May to 3 June 2005, at the School of African Heritage in Porto-Novo, Benin. Financed by the Italian and Dutch Funds-in-Trust, and the Africa 2009 Programme, the project falls within the ...
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,In the context of Chandigarh's nomination to the World Heritage List, as part of the serial nomination of "The Architectural and Urban Work of Le Corbusier", the World Heritage Centre in cooperation with the Chandigarh authorities, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and the UNESCO New Delhi office has organized a 3-day technical workshop on site management and ...
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Vilm Island, Baltic Sea, Germany,The workshop was organized and financially supported by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) and the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) in cooperation with UNESCO and followed the decision of the World Heritage Committee at its 30th session (30 COM 8B.24) encouraging the States Parties of Iran and ...
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Kyoto, Japan,Course will take place 3-15 November 2008, Kyoto, Japan
The Research Center for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto is organizing the 3rd International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage from 3 to 15 November 2008, in cooperation with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, ICCROM and ...
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Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain,Thanks to the generous invitation of the Kingdom of Bahrain, fourteen out of the eighteen States Parties from the Arab Region met in Manama to launch the second cycle of the Periodic Reporting decided by the World Heritage Committee at its 32nd session in Quebec City (July 2008).
Two days of the meeting were devoted to training for the drafting ...
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,This international colloquium, sponsored by the German Research Association (DFG), is held at the Technical University Dresden in association with ICOMOS from 13 to 14 June 2014. It will for the first time address the issues of Integrating Heritage Conservation and Flood Control Concepts along rivers and streams.
Increasingly frequent disasters ...
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UNESCO Headquarters,The UNESCO World Heritage Centre invited representatives of StatesParties to the World Heritage Convention to participate in an information and exchange meeting on the 39th session, which will take place from 28 June to 8 July in Bonn, Germany.
After a welcome note by the Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee, Prof. Maria Bohmer, the German ...
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,The World Heritage Centre will be hosting an online information session on 3 September 2020 for the UNESCO Field Offices, Category 2 Centres in Asia and the Pacific and the Advisory Bodies, in preparation of the Third Cycle of Periodic Reporting in the APA region.
On 3 September 2020, the World Heritage Centre will host an online information session with the UNESCO Field ...
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,In the framework of the Third Cycle of Periodic Reporting, which started in the Africa region in September 2019, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, in close collaboration with the African World Heritage Fund and UNESCO Field Offices, is organising a final regional online workshop for National Focal Points of the Africa region to present the outcomes of Periodic Reporting ...
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,On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH), and in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, ARC-WH is delighted to announce the week-long event, World Heritage Days. Each activity is catered towards highlighting the importance of celebrating and preserving World ...
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A paper prepared for the Clark Art Institute Conference on "Compression versus Expression : Containing and Explaining the World’s Art".
Williamstown, April 6 - 8, 2000.by Georges S. Zouain – April 2000
This paper is an attempt to show how heritage, art and economics have been and remain very closely related throughout their history and how together, through this ...
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Chott El Jerid est situé dans la partie continentale du sud-ouest du pays. Site partagé entre le Gouvernorat de Tozeur et le Gouvernorat de Kebili. Villes les plus proches : Tozeur (au nord- ouest) et Kebili (au sud-est). Il s'étend sur une superficie de 586.187ha.
Le Chott El Jerid est une vaste dépression salée, située entre la chaîne de montagnes du Cherb au nord et le ...
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Batroun est une ville de la côte méridionale du Liban. Se situant à environ 54 km au nord de Beyrouth, elle s’étend sur un promontoire rocheux, avec une superficie de 4.68km².
Cette ville a été occupée de façon continue depuis le bronze ancien jusqu’à nos jours.
En effet, les travaux archéologiques qui ont eu lieu récemment au centre de la ville ancienne de Batroun ont ...
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Aperçu historique
Le parc national d'El Feijaa été investi par l'homme depuis ng=" préhistoire, à savoir il y a 10.000 ans (le néolithique). La présence des silex et des obsidiennes taillés atteste de cette présence. L'appropriation préhistorique de ce site est encore plus attestée par des traces de peintures rupestres dans les creux du Rocher de Kef Negcha, qui ...
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Cultural heritage is defined in Article 1 of the World Heritage Convention.
'For the purposes of this Convention, the following shall be considered as "cultural heritage";
- monuments: architectural works, works of monumental sculpture and painting, elements or structures of an archaeological nature, inscriptions, cave dwellings and combinations of features, which are of ...
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CLT/WHC-11/17
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Historical documents show that the sinking method of the Karez wells inside Xinjiang including the Western Region was introduced by the Han people. The majority of the ethnic minorities of the northwest borderland hadn't mastered the sinking technology by that time. It was Lin Zexu that stood out among all the people who advocated and promoted the Karez wells as the ...
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Khazarasp is one of the most ancient cities of Central Asia. Many ancient authors of East At-Tabbari (XI century), Arabian historian Al-Istakhri (X century), Beykhaki (XI), Djuveni (XIII century) and many other were mentioned about this city. It is a coeval to Memphis, Rome, Athenes, Merv, Samarkand, Bukhara and many other cities.Khazarasp was the main advanced post of ...
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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
Complete halt of site excavations
Lack of research funds
Lack of adequate maintenance of the site
Site museum needs to be refurbished
,Regarding the ICOMOS - ICCROM joint mission’s recommendation to add cultural ...
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CLT/WHC-11/21
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CLT/WHC-12/18
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Near Lake General Carrera, to the east of the southern Andes, there are manifestations of rupestrian art constituting the so-called "Patagonian Art Style", which is the oldest in South America. Its best known representations are those of hands, the scenes depicting guanacos, and the frets which, although ill preserved, reach up to some eaves of the pempas region stretching ...
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Kyoto, (Japan) - UNESCO's World Heritage Committee today announced it removed the Old City of Dubrovnik (Croatia) and the Wieliczka Salt Mines (Poland) from its List of World Heritage in Danger due to the success of measures undertaken for their restoration and preservation. Dubrovnik, the Dalmatian Coast city dubbed "the pearl of the Adriatic" and dotted with beautiful ...
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Entries are now being accepted for the 2008 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation. The awards programme, in its ninth year, recognizes the achievement of individuals and organizations within the private sector, and public-private intitiatives, in successfully restoring structures of heritage value in the Asia-Pacific region. The deadline ...
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The World Heritage Committee has inscribed a total of 25 sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List, including three natural properties, 21 cultural and one mixed site. Two properties were added to the World Heritage List in Danger and one was removed from that list. The World Heritage List now numbers 936 properties: 183 natural sites; 725 cultural; and 28 mixed.
Natural ...
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Towards strengthened governance of the shared transboundary natural and cultural heritage of the Lake Ohrid Region: Local Facilitator, Albania
IUCN Programme Office for South-Eastern Europe (SEE) is seeking to recruit an experienced and enthusiastic candidate to join the IUCN SEE team working on the project “Towards strengthened governance of the shared transboundary ...
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On 15 December, the Representatives of Italy, Jordan, UNESCO, INTERPOL, UNODC officially opened an exhibition on the protection of cultural heritage that will be displayed at the United Nations Headquarters from 14 to 24 December.
The exhibition is co-organized by Italy, Jordan, UNESCO, INTERPOL and UNODC with the aim to highlight the new partnership to act together ...
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On 4 July 2019, a special event devoted to the theme "Qhapaq Nan, Sharing experiences and good practices" brought together representatives of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru with the aim of sharing their collaborative achievements in management and conservation of this serial and transboundary World Heritage site.
Participants presented concrete and ...
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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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new sites added to UNESCO World Heritage List
Nominations to be examined Cultural properties Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque, Renaissance Hydraulic Complex in America (Mexico) Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalu and Monreale (Italy) Baekje Historic Areas (Republic of Korea) Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” (Al-Maghtas) (Jordan) Bet She’arim ...
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Cambodia,
Inadequate protective legislation;
Inadequately staffed national protection agency;
No permanent boundaries established and defined buffer zones;
Need for monitoring and coordination of the international conservation effort
,In the framework of assistance provided by the UNESCO Secretariat to the Cambodian authorities, to enable them to honour the ...
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Philippines,,Previous deliberations:
World Heritage Bureau, twenty-third session - Chapter IV.74
New information:In response to the request of the Bureau at its twenty-third session, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines transmitted a brief report prepared by the Banaue Rice Terraces Task Force (BRTTF) dated 30 August 1999, stating that the contract for the ...
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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 ...
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UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France,This meeting, which is being held in France, will bring together several experts from different countries (Kazakhstan, Norway, Uzbekistan, Germany and France) as well as ICOMOS experts and the UNESCO Central Asia field offices representatives to discuss with the World Heritage Centre the draft Concept Paper of the World Heritage ...
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Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan,The 10th expert working group meeting for the preservation of the Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley World Heritage property, will be held in Tokyo from 6 to 8 December 2011, followed by two public symposiums concerning Bamiyan on 9 and 11 December, in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan.
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre is ...
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Turin, Italy,The UNESCO World Heritage Centre will be holding the 3rd Expert Working Group Meeting for the Old City of Herat and the Archaeological Remains of the Jam World Heritage Site at the Museo d'Arte Orientale in Turin, Italy, from 4 to 6 September 2012. More than 20 world-famous experts, as well as representatives of donor countries, Afghan experts and high-ranking ...
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UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France,The UNESCO World Heritage Centre will organize a photographic exhibition “The Preservation of the World Heritage Site of the Koguryo Tombs and Mural Paintings of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 2001-2012” from 12 to 26 October 2012 at Salle des Pas Perdus, UNESCO Headquarters, in Paris.
Over the last decade, ...
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Baku, Azerbaijan,In the framework of the implementation of the Second Cycle of the Periodic Reporting in Europe and North America, the World Heritage National Focal Points for Periodic Reporting from the Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe countries met in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 29 to 31 October 2013.
The workshop included a practical training session on the use ...
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Lake Ohrid, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,On 15 and 16 September 2014, the Inception Workshop in Pogradec, Albania, will kick-start the 36-month project co-financed by the European Union and the Ministry of Environment of Albania « Towards strengthened governance of the shared transboundary natural and cultural heritage of the Lake Ohrid Region » aimed at the ...
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,The World Heritage Centre is organising a series of online training sessions to accompany States Parties in Asia and the Pacific as they carry out the Third Cycle of Periodic Reporting.
This session is dedicated to Reporting on Natural Heritage and focus on the following:
Recap: factors specifically affecting natural heritage and their assessment in the ...
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,The World Heritage Centre is organising a series of online training sessions to accompany States Parties in Asia and the Pacific as they carry out the Third Cycle of Periodic Reporting.
This session is dedicated to Management Plans & Impact Assessments and focus on the following:
Reporting on Management Plans and Impact Assessments in the Periodic Reporting ...
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,In July 2021, the UNESCO Office in Almaty, in close cooperation with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and three Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Convention (ICCROM, ICOMOS, IUCN), will organize a series of online capacity-building webinars for individuals and organizations responsible for the management of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage sites in Central ...
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Les forêts humides sont principalement localisées dans la partie orientale de Madagascar, à l'Est de la ligne de partage des eaux. Cependant des blocs forestiers relativement grands sont éparpillés sur le Haut Plateau central et dans la partie septentrionale de l'île. Le climat est de type tropical humide, caractérisé par des précipitations abondantes. Du nord vers ...
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Il s’agit de biens funéraires produits d’une brillante civilisation originale à la fois africaine et méditerranéenne.
Ces monuments royaux représentent une sélection d’exemples remarquables de sépultures remontant à des périodes variées et issues de régions différentes. Ils témoignent de la diversité des conceptions architecturales et techniques ...
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Le site de Nosy Lonjo est un site mixte. Il se trouve à l’extrême-Nord de Madagascar dans la baie de Diégo-Suarez, Commune Ramena, District d’Antsiranana. Nosy Lonjo est un îlot d’origine volcanique, de forme conique de 122 mètres de hauteur et d’une superficie de 4,5 hectares. Il est constitué par des bancs de calcaire nummulitique détachés de la montagne dénommée ...
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Saada est une des plus anciennes cites médiévales du Yémen, d'une grande importance pour sa valeur historique, architecturale, urbaine et spirituelle.
Saada fondée par l'Imam AI-Hadi Yaya au 9ème siècle, devient le berceau du "zaydisme", puissante école spirituelle de la pensée musulmane du Yémen. Elle prospère, habitée sans interruption dans un schéma médiéval avec une ...
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Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Poaching
Military conflict
Looting of the facilities
Godl mining
,The Committee had declared these four sites as World Heritage in Danger, during 1994-1997, when war and civil strife ravaged the country. At the time of its twenty-second ordinary session (June 1998), the Bureau was of the view that the security situation in the country may ...
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Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Poaching;
Managerment issues (issue resolved);
Civil unrest
,The Committee had declared these four sites as World Heritage in Danger, during 1994-1997, when war and civil strife ravaged the country. At the time of its twenty-second ordinary session (June 1998), the Bureau was of the view that the security situation in the country may be ...
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Huangshan City, Anhui, China,HIST (International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage) will co-organize with the World Heritage Centre, MAB Secretariat and Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences of UNESCO "Huangshan Dialogue on UNESCO Designated Places and Sustainable Development --Application of Space Technologies for World Heritage Sites, ...
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Almaty, Kazakhstan,Central Asian Workshop for the Conservation and Management Strategies for Silk Roads Heritage Corridors and Closing Meeting of the UNESCO/Japan Funds-in-Trust Project “Support for Silk Roads World Heritage Sites in Central Asia (Phase II)” will be held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, 26-28 June 2019
In cooperation with the related Kazakh authorities, the UNESCO ...
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We are happy to publish this special issue dedicated to the World Heritage sites of the Russian Federation on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, which the Committee will be celebrating at its meeting in Saint Petersburg on 25 June 2012.
The inscription of both cultural and natural sites on the World Heritage List has progressed rapidly ...
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Please refer to Rule 14 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Assembly: "Election of the members of the World Heritage Committee"
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List of wetlands which have been designated by the Parties to the Ramsar Convention as internationally important according to one or more of the criteria that have been adopted by the Conference of the Parties.
Source(s): www.ramsar.org
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Protection and management of World Heritage properties, as outlined in the Operational Guidelines should ensure that the OUV, the conditions of integrity and/or authenticity at the time of inscription are maintained or enhanced in the future (Paragraph 96).
Source(s): Managing Natural World Heritage
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Colombia Colombie Colombia Колумбия كولومبيا 哥伦比亚 The Republic of Colombia
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Micronesia (Federated States of) Micronésie (États fédérés de) Micronesia (Estados Federados de) Микронезия (Федеративные Штаты) ميكرونيزيا (ولايات ــ الموحدة) 密克罗尼西亚（联邦） The Federated States of Micronesia
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Ukraine Ukraine Ucrania Украина أوكرانيا 乌克兰 Ukraine
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Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Venezuela (République bolivarienne du) Venezuela (República Bolivariana de) Венесуэла (Боливарианская Республика) فنزويلا (جمهورية - البوليفارية) 委内瑞拉（玻利瓦尔共和国） The Republic of Venezuela
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L’Aurès est limité à l’ouest par la grande dépression de Batna à l’est par la vallée de l’oued El Arab et tombant brutalement au dessus des plaines sur ses faces nord et sud. Ses crêtes culminent au nord est à plus de 2000 m.Une végétation très variée traduit des contrastes climatiques comme il y en a peu en Algérie. Le versant nord porte des chênes verts et en altitude , ...
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The National Park of Peninsular Malaysia (Taman Negara), originally was gazetted as Gunung Tahan Game Reserve in 1925 and in 1939 it was declared as a National Park by the British Administrators under the name ‘King George V National Park’ under Enactment 1939, to commemorate the installation of King George V in England. Historically the three parts were ...
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
Resumption of mining activities
Inappropriate developments (note that the previously raised issue of the new supermarket built at Hayle Harbour has since been resolved)
Potential impact of new development projects
Management and institutional factors / Improvements to the planning tools and approval processes not yet ...