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Le territoire bissau-guinéen est divisé en deux zones principales: la zone continentale et la zone insulaire, communément appelée l'Archipel des Bijagós, constituée par 88 îles et îlots parmi lesquels 23 sont habités. C'est la zone la plus riche en Guinée-Bissau, en termes de la biodiversité.L'Archipel des Bolama-Bijagos occupe une superficie totale de plus de ...
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All four clusters of Magadansky Reserve are separated from each other, rather hard-to- reach and have no settlements or constant transport roads. Each cluster has its own distinctive features in locality appearance, climate conditions, composition of flora and fauna.
Clusters of the Magadansky Reserve are located within the Northern Far East mainland mountain and upland ...
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The 2nd South East European (SEE) World Heritage Youth Forum for peace and sustainable development was held from 6 to 11 April 2013 in Zajecar, eastern Serbia, home of the Gamzigrad – Felix Romuliana / Palace of Galerius World Heritage site.
At the opening ceremony on 7 April, the message delivered on behalf of Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO, stated: "Our theme ...
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An expert meeting for the preparation of the serial transnational World Heritage nomination “Silk Roads: Fergana – Syrdarya Corridor” took place in Kyzylorda (Kazakhstan) on 14 November 2016, as follow-up to the Almaty Agreement adopted on 24–25 November 2015 during the Fourth Meeting of the Coordinating Committee on the World Heritage Serial Nomination of the Silk Roads ...
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Since 1995, KOBI Graphis has been supporting the World Heritage Centre by contributing to the promotion of the properties protected over the World Heritage Convention. It helps in safeguarding and raising awareness among the youth through publishing. KOBI Graphis publishes and commercializes World Heritage calendars on behalf of the Japanese company, Matsushita Electric ...
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Following the launching in December 2006 of the Patrimonito Storyboard Competition organized by the World Heritage Centre in coordination with the UNESCO Associated Schools, the contest results are now available.
Four hundred students from the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda registered to take part in the Competition. They submitted ...
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World Heritage is the designation for places on Earth that are of outstanding universal value to humanity and as such, have been inscribed on the World Heritage List to be protected for future generations to appreciate and enjoy. Places as diverse and unique as the Pyramids of Egypt, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, Galápagos Islands in Ecuador, the Taj Mahal in India, ...
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Countries (or States Parties) submit nomination proposals to the World Heritage Committee. If the Committee determines, based on the recommendations of its Advisory Bodies (ICOMOS and IUCN), that the nomination meets at least one of the necessary criteria, then the property proposed by the State Party is inscribed on the World Heritage List. In general, the Committee adds ...
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Disaster risk management is the application of disaster risk reduction policies and strategies to prevent new disaster risk, reduce existing disaster risk and manage residual risk, contributing to the strengthening of resilience and reduction of disaster losses.
Annotation: Disaster risk management actions can be distinguished between prospective disaster risk management, ...
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“Cultural diversity” refers to the manifold ways in which the cultures of groups and societies find expression.
These expressions are passed on within and among groups and societies.
Cultural diversity is made manifest not only through the varied ways in which the cultural heritage of humanity is expressed, augmented and transmitted through the variety of cultural ...
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Ecosystem services are processes by which the environment produces benefits useful to people, akin to economic services. They include:
Provision of clean water and air;
Pollination of crops;
Mitigation of environmental hazards;
Pest and disease control;
Carbon sequestration.
Accounting for the way in which ecosystems provide economic goods is an increasingly popular area ...
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The vision of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme is that the world's documentary heritage belongs to all, should be fully preserved and protected for all and, with due recognition of cultural mores and practicalities, should be permanently accessible to all without hindrance.
The mission of the Memory of the World Programme is:
To facilitate preservation, by the ...
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Usually referred to as simply the Operational Guidelines, these help to explain the implementation of the Convention. They include procedures for:
inscription of properties on the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger;
protection and conservation of World Heritage properties;
granting of International Assistance under the World Heritage ...
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WHC-11/18.GA/7
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WHC/16/40.COM/14
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WHC-15/39.COM/13B
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Située au pied d'une colline dans un paysage de plaine, la cour Royale de Tiébélé forme un espace circulaire irrégulier d'environ 1,2 ha. On y accède au sud-ouest par l'entrée principale. On distingue plusieurs éléments caractéristiques: le Pourou, butte sacrée où sont enterrés les placentas des membres de la famille, le nabarê, l’autel de l’ancêtre, le ...
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Les îles Ehotilé ont été érigées en Parc National par le décret N074-1 79 du 25 avril 1974 sur l'initiative des Communautés locales (cas unique en Côte d'lvoire et même en Afrique de l'Ouest).Milieu naturelLe Parc National des Iles Ehotilé est un ensemble de 6 îles (Assokomonobaha, Balouaté, Meha, Nyamouan, Elouamin et I'île sacrée Bosson Assoun) situées en ...
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L'emplacement choisi pour Dura Europos tient à sa position stratégique au point où la route qui va d'Antioche, la capitale méditerranéenne de l'empire séleucide, à Séleucie-du-Tigre, la capitale babylonienne, descend du plateau pour longer l'Euphrate. L'intérêt d'une telle position n'avait pas échappé aux maîtres de la région dans les périodes antérieures à la ...
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L'antique cité d'origine phénicienne (Antaradus) enlevée aux Musulmans par les Croisés garde des vestiges vivants de ce passage qui a duré deux siècles (fin Xle fin Xllle siècle) et qui l'a entièrement façonnée, la transformant en un bastion des Frans parmi les plus stratégiques du bord de la Méditerranée d'où, grâce à son port, elle assurait la liaison ...
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L’espace appelé Gourma au Mali concerne trois régions (Mopti,Tombouctou et de Gao). La zone s’étend sur 83 millions d’hectares (environ 83.000 km²), à l’Est du Mali, entre le fleuve Niger et la frontière du Burkina Faso. Le Gourma est limité au Nord et à l’Est par le fleuve Niger, à l’ouest et au sud par les collines et falaises du pays Dogon. Le Gourma est une vaste zone ...
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The UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, adopted in 2001, is intended to enable States to better protect their submerged cultural heritage.
The main principles laid out in the Convention are the obligation to preserve underwater cultural heritage, the prioritization of in-situ preservation and the stipulation that underwater cultural ...
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WHC-12/36.COM/14
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WHC-12/36.COM/10D Follow-up of the second cycle of the Periodic Reporting exercise for Africa Region
WHC-12/36.COM/10D
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WHC-10/34.COM/5E
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WHC-13/19.GA/INF.3B
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WHC-15/20.GA/INF.6B
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WHC-13/19.GA/INF.11
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Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iran (République islamique d') Irán (República Islámica del) Иран (Исламская Республика) إيران (جمهورية - الإسلامية) 伊朗（伊斯兰共和国） The Islamic Republic of Iran
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Les Mégalithes de Djohong sont situés à 80 km de Meiganga dans le Département du Mbéré. « Tazunu » est l’appelation locale de ces mégalithes. Dans le cas présent, il désigne aussi le village où les mégalithes sont situés. Le monument mégalithique est constitué de deux pièces dont l’une reste toujours plantée au sol et l’autre en position renversée et doublée. La première ...
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Mexico,Urban development pressures in the areas surrounding the property,The State Party submitted a report on the state of conservation of the property on 7 February 2012.
The report was compiled by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and includes information on the process of assessment of the physical state of conservation of the inscribed property ...
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China,
Uncontrolled urban development and expansion of tourism-related facilities in and adjacent to the boundary of the property;
Negative impact of the rehabilitation projects on the protection of the traditional urban tissue of the historic centre.
,On 25 January 2013, the State Party submitted a state of conservation report that addresses the progress made in the ...
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WHC-2000/CONF.202/INF.6
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Cette zone d'environ 20 000 hectares comprend la Réserve Naturelle de Camargue ainsi que d'autres aires protégées adjacentes. Ce delta, ensemble naturel et artificiel de zones humides, de marais, de prairies et de landes, continue d'évoluer du fait des sédiments en provenance des Alpes, transportés jusqu'en Camargue par le Rhône. Grâce à une combinaison ...
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The Mbaracaya Forest Nature Reserve (MFNR) consists of 64,405.7 hectares, located in the eastern region of Paraguay near the Brazilian border, an area with small landholdings and numerous cattle rancHng establishments in the Mbaracaya Range (Karapa). In the east there are various properties, ranches and two indigenous communities of different ethnic partialities, and in ...
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The Bagçesaray Palace of the Crimean Khans is a compact architectural ensemble consisting of 17 buildings and 9 inner closed courtyards. The total area of the ensemble is about 500000 square meters (including 7190 m of the built-up area).
The Bagçesaray Palace of the Crimean Khans was built in the third-fourth decades of the 16 century. The oldest dated construction of ...
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Rabati Malik Caravanserai is constructed according to the order of Karakhanid Shams-al-Mulk Nasr, son of Tamgachkhan Ibragim ruled in Samarkand from 1068 until 1080.
Only its portal has reached until now from the old huge caravanserai on the surface of the ground. The portal of caravanserai - one of the most ancient place in the territory of the Central Asia portals - ...
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The International Workshop and Expert Meeting "Starlight Reserves and World Heritage - scientific cultural and environmental values", was held in Fuerteventura, Spain, from 10-11 March 2009. It was attended by 32 participants and experts from 10 countries including representatives of private organizations, companies, the tourism industry, NGOs, scientific bodies ...
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Germany,Floods.
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Infrastructure development pressure ,Concerning the floods, the requested update report on the rehabilitation works in the World Heritage property had not been received by 1 February 2004. By letter of 13 April 2004, the German authorities informed the Centre that the situation at the site is basically unchanged since the last ...
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Democratic Republic of the Congo,,By letter of 21 February 1984, the State Commissioner for Environment, Nature Conservation and Tourism of Zaire requested the Director-General of Unesco to consider the possibility of placing Garamba National Park on the List of World Heritage in Danger due to the critical situation of its white rhinoceros population.
The ...
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Riomaggiore, Cinque Terre National Park (Italy),1st Training Workshop on "Conserving World Heritage Natural Sites and Cultural Landscapes in South-Eastern Europe - Managing cultural landscapes"Following the launch of the joint project on World Heritage natural sites and cultural landscapes in South-Eastern Europe at the symposium held from 16-18 October 2006 in Osnabruck, ...
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Ghent and Ostend, Belgium,CLIMATES OF HERITAGE CONSERVATION: Responding to the Challenge of Global Climate Change throughPublic Engagement and Social Innovation
This three-day colloquium will focus on the immediate and obvious significance of the impacts of global climate change to the Low Countries, namely rising sea levels and increased river flooding. Papers ...
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Stone Town of Zanzibar, Tanzania,More than half of the Earth's population now lives in an urban area, and over the past three decades, due to the sharp increase in the world's urban population, historic cities have become subject to new threats.
In order to address conservation and planning issues of historic cities, the Recommendation on Historic Urban Landscapes is ...
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Juba, South Soudan,A Regional workshop on Tentative Listing for East African Countries will take place in Juba, South Sudan from 3 - 5 September 2012. The workshop is organized jointly by Ministry of Culture Youth and Sports, South Sudan in partnership with the African World Heritage Fund and UNESCO Juba Office with generous support from the Government of Netherlands ...
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Quito, Ecuador,[in French only] Dans le cadre de la commémoration des 40 ans de la Convention du patrimoine mondial, le Centre du patrimoine mondial de l’Organisation des Nations unies pour l’éducations, la science et la culture (UNESCO) et la municipalité de Quito ont organisé le Forum International « Patrimoine ...
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Touho, New Caledonia,We are pleased to announce that the UNESCO World Heritage Centre in cooperation with the Conservatoire des Espaces Naturels de Nouvelle-Caledonie (CEN) will organize the UNESCO Asia Pacific World Heritage Project on Marine Biodiversity & Climate Change Awareness among Youth from 7 to 13 April 2014 in Touho, New-Caledonia.
Contributing to the 2014 ...
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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 ...
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National Technical Museum, Prague, Czech Republic,On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of UNESCO, the Czech National Heritage Institute is hosting an international conference on risk factors observed during periodic, annual or ad hoc monitoring, in the Czech Republic and abroad.
This conference brings attention to the organisation’s wide scope of action in World ...
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Lucio Costa Centre, Brazil,From the 3 to the 7 October 2016, the Category 2 Centre, Lucio Costa Centre in cooperation with the Latin American and the Caribbean unit of the World Heritage Centre will hold the “Workshop on the fundamental concepts and methodologies for the implementation of the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage ...