UNESCO World Heritage Centre has launched a groundbreaking new report Climate Change in Mediterranean World Heritage Cities ...

This former duck-hunting reserve of the Maharajas is one of the major wintering areas for large numbers of aquatic birds from Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, China and Siberia. Some 364 species of birds, ...

The World Heritage Committee, Having examined Documents WHC/24/46.COM/8B and WHC/24/46.COM/INF.8B2,; Inscribes the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, Brazil, on the World Heritage List on the basis of ...

44 COM 7B.176 iSimangaliso Wetland Park (South Africa) (N 914) The World Heritage Committee, Having examined Document WHC/21/44.COM/7B.Add, ; Recalling Decisions CONF 209 VIII.A.1, 27 COM 7B.6 and 28 ...

Une nouvelle analyse menée par l'UNESCO et le World Resources Institute (WRI) révèle que 73 % des sites du patrimoine mondial ...

Further to recent reports and inquiries, regarding the displacement of the Maasai people in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area World Heritage property, UNESCO wishes to recall that neither the World ...

UNESCO World Heritage CentreThe Enhancing Our Heritage Toolkit 2.0 (EoH 2.0) provides a globally tested self-assessment methodology to support World Heritage managers and actors to evaluate management ...

In response to the results of the independent technical review of the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) commissioned by IUCN, the World Heritage Centre expresses grave concern over the state of ...

UNESCO World Heritage CentreLocated in the Dinaric mountain range, the property stands out with its remarkable cave biodiversity and endemicity. Known since antiquity, the well-conserved ...

The World Heritage Committee, holding its 44th session in Fuzhou and online, decided to delete the property “Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City” (UK) from the World Heritage List, due to the ...

In the sessions “Inspiring practices from around the world: Local Action for World Heritage”, the young professionals presented, every day during the forum, their own inspiring work, shared the ...

UNESCO World Heritage CentreThe walled city of Jaipur, in India’s north-western state of Rajasthan was founded in 1727 by Sawai Jai Singh II. Unlike other cities in the region located in hilly terrain ...