UNESCO Director-General deplores fires in Mount Kenya National Park APO Group...
Download logo For more than a week, devastating fires have raged in Mount Kenya National Park, inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1997 and a part of the Mount Kenya Biosphere Reserve since 1978....
View ArticleUnesco World Heritage Sites London: Cutty Sark, Royal Observatory and the...
As part of the capital's rich and diverse culture, Londoners are lucky enough to have four UNESCO World Heritage Sites right on their doorsteps. ......
View ArticleFort Negley receives international recognition thanks to the work of...
As communities throughout the South struggle to determine appropriate ways of recognizing Civil War history, Jane Landers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt professor of history, and postdoctoral fellow...
View ArticleUnesco advisers raise concerns over plan to raise Warragamba dam wall
World Heritage centre says proposal would result in inundation of large part of world heritage-listed Blue Mountains wilderness area Advisers to the United Nations have expressed concerns about a plan...
View ArticleWind up your Taj Mahal tour in three hours—or pay more
Losing track of the time while admiring the pristine Taj Mahal will now cost tourists dearly. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which administers the monument, has decided to place a three-hour...
View ArticleSC tells govt not to build road, rail line thru CNP without consultation
Kathmandu, June 12 The Supreme Court has ordered the government not to build roads or railway lines through Chitwan National Park without consulting stakeholders, especially the CNP and UNESCO. This...
View ArticleA photo by a Jamia Millia student Mohsin selected for UNESCO World...
New Delhi: A photograph of the world heritage monument Humayun’s Tomb in Delhi taken by Mohsin Javed, a final year student of Diploma in Electrical Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) has been...
View ArticleVenice mayor urges Unesco to place city on world heritage blacklist
Luigi Brugnaro says he has no faith in Italy’s government to resolve cruise ship problem The mayor of Venice has urged Unesco to place the city on its world heritage site blacklist as he lambasted...
View ArticleVenice Asks UNESCO To Place City On World Heritage Blacklist Over Cruise Ship...
The mayor of Venice asked UNESCO to place the Italian city on its world heritage site blacklist to help divert cruise ships from the tourist hot spot on Thursday, according to The Daily Telegraph....
View ArticleOnce in shambles, these Jogja temples are now UNESCO World Heritage sites
Yogyakarta: The beautiful Indonesian city of Yogyakarta, bustling with cultural centres, is famed for its two historical temples- Borobudur and Prambanan- both on the recommended must-see places for...
View ArticleIndonesia attracts more than 1000s to yoga events in Yogyakarta
Yogyakarta [Indonesia]: The beautiful Indonesian city of Yogyakarta, famed for its two historical temples, Borobudur and Prambanan, newly renamed as World Heritage sites by UNESCO, attracted more than...
View ArticleUnesco chair blasts 'discriminatory' UK visitor visa system
Alison Phipps accuses Home Office of ‘secret travel ban’ against visiting academics One of Unesco’s chiefs has said she will no longer host any international conferences in the UK because of the Home...
View ArticleJudge Rules Against Prussian Prince's Claim To Historic Castle
A German judge has ruled that the rightful owner of a 13th century castle is the property of the town in which it is located, not a Prussian price, Germany’s Deutsche Welle news service reports. Prince...
View ArticleNepal to lobby to keep Kathmandu on heritage site list
Kathmandu, June 26 Nepal is set to lobby for maintaining the world heritage site status of Kathmandu valley, after the UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee proposed to list the valley as ‘World Heritage...
View ArticleChina’s plan to help build Kenya’s first coal plant has been stopped—for now
The scheme to build Kenya and east Africa’s first coal plant has been stopped. Kenyan judges at the National Environmental Tribunal on Tuesday (June 25) said officials had failed to conduct a thorough...
View ArticleThe Erzgebirge want UNESCO World Heritage Site status
Silver, tin and uranium were mined here for over 800 years. Now the German-Czech region of Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří has good chances of being awarded the UNESCO title. We look at Freiberg's long journey...
View ArticleUNESCO World Heritage Committee session in Baku of great importance: Canadian...
(MENAFN - AzerNews) ByTrend The 43rd session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee being held in Baku is of great importance in terms of protecting the world cultural heritage and... ......
View ArticleThe Theft of Childhood: Protecting Our Children from Ideological Warfare
Opinion Storefronts of Jewish-owned businesses damaged during the Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” in Berlin, Germany, on Nov. 10, 1938. Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum....
View ArticleUNESCO gives Canada new deadline to preserve Wood Buffalo National Park
The United Nations body that oversees world heritage sites has given Canada a new deadline to address problems in the country’s largest national park. At a meeting this week in Azerbaijan, UNESCO...
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