World Heritage

Source: climate.weather.com --- 1 day ago
TOKYO, Oct. 4 (Kyodo) _ The government plans to start establishing a monitoring system next April on the impact of global warming on three World Heritage sites in Japan, government sources said Saturday. The three sites the Environment Ministry and the Forestry Agency plan to monitor are Hokkaido's Shiretoko Peninsula, the Shirakami mountain range in Aomori and Akita prefectures and Yaku Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, the... ...

Source: www.nytimes.com --- 13 days ago
Around a half-dozen French chefs and culinary experts are trying to persuade the United Nations to declare French gastronomy a World treasure. ...

Source: adventuretravel.about.com --- 16 days ago
Photo - Sighisoara, Romania is on the UNESCO World Heritage Center list ...

Source: www.reuters.com --- 30 days ago
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The United Nations launched a plan on Friday to have an ancient wetland in southeast Iraq, thought to be the Biblical Garden of Eden, listed as a World Heritage Site. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 32 days ago
Italy Backs Bid to List Iraqi Marshlands Following Completion of UNEP Restoration Project Kyoto/Nairobi, 5 September 2008-A plan to list as a World Heritage Site an area known as the Fertile Crescent, and thought by some to be the location of the ...

Source: www.theglobeandmail.com --- 30 days ago
Drained by Hussein in retaliation for perceived treachery during the war with Iran, large part of region restored to environmental health ...

Source: www.prweb.com --- 30 days ago
Macau.com is the official online travel agency for the World Heritage Travel Expo 2008. (PRWeb Sep 7, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/macau-expo/World-Heritage-travel/prweb1275834.htm ...

Source: www.dallasnews.com --- 13 days ago
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Source: whc.unesco.org --- 34 days ago
2nd International Conference of the Alliance of World Heritage Cultural Landscapes on "Spirit of Place and Development" Following the establishment of the Alliance of World Heritage Cultural Landscapes at the 1st International Conference held in Aranjuez, Spain, in December 2007 (http://www.aranjuezcultural.es/red/index.htm), this 2nd conference is designed to focus on the concrete challenges of World Heritage Cultural Landscapes management while also … ...

Source: whc.unesco.org --- 27 days ago
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre together with the UNESCO Kathmandu Office, in close collaboration with Nepal's Department of Archaeology and the Lumbini Development Trust is organizing a workshop for the World Heritage property of Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, in Lumbini, Nepal. About 100 participants from different Nepali ministries, institutions, stakeholders as well as the Lumbini Buddhist institutions will attend. The international participants are representatives of the … ...

Source: whc.unesco.org --- 6 days ago
The 6th annual French World Heritage Sites meeting will be held in October. On the 16th October the meeting will focus on the theme of "Urbanism, modern and contemporary architecture" and will include two roundtable discussions:  « Urbanism and World Heritage » and « Valuation of modern architecture ».  This thematic day will allow sites' managers to exchange experiences and discuss about specific issues concerning the … ...

Source: whc.unesco.org --- 24 days ago
With the support of Jaeger-LeCoultre, Swiss luxury watch manufacture, the World Heritage Marine Programme will begin a series of conservation activities aimed at identifying, monitoring and preserving marine sites around the World. This partnership is being promoted through a series of articles published by the International Herald Tribune, also a partner in this initiative, in the printed and online versions of the daily www.iht.com/tidesoftime. The first series of articles was published in … ...

Source: tvnz.co.nz --- 5 days ago
Floods have killed at least 13 people in the Algerian oasis town of Ghardaia in the Sahara, the government of the north African country said on Thursday ...

Source: www.japantoday.com --- 3 days ago
The government plans to start establishing a monitoring system next April on the impact of global warming on three World Heritage sites in Japan, government… ...

Source: www.dur.ac.uk --- 32 days ago
Durham’s World Heritage Site, which already includes the Cathedral and Castle, has been extended to include the Palace Green and some of the surrounding buildings. ...

Source: www.localwineevents.com --- 14 days ago
Sep 23, 2008 (Tue): From time to time Heaven Hill, the distillery that is the source for Evan Williams Single barrel and Eljah Craig 18 year old, gives its Master Distiller Parker Beam (hes Jim Beams grand nephew) leave to bottle his choice of the best whiskies in the distillery with his name on [...] ...

Source: hnn.us --- 28 days ago
Source: History Today (9-8-08) The UN’s cultural and scientific agency has asked Britain to report on seven of its World Heritage sites by February. Unesco could place the sites, including the Tower of London and Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, on its ‘at risk’ register if its concerns are not tackled. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport, as well as introducing a new Heritage protection bill, addressed spoints raised by Unesco during its annual meeting in July in Quebec. Its concerns include the rerouting of a road at Stonehenge and proposed new buildings in Edinburgh’s medieval Old Town, Bath, Westminster and near the Tower of London. ...

Source: himachal.us --- 11 days ago
Shimla: After a gap of six days, the hustle-bustle was seen on the World Heritage Kalka-Shimla railway. Today, all the five trains were back on track after the rail traffic remained disrupted due to heavy rain, which damaged the rail tracks at various points, said a senior Railway Official. The trains had to be suspended due [...] ...

Source: www.aliraqi.org --- 13 days ago
BAGHDAD (AFP) - The central Iraqi Sunni city of Samarra which houses a revered Shiite mosque that was bombed by Al-Qaeda has been selected as a World Heritage site, the government said on Tuesday. "The Universal Heritage Committee of UNESCO has agreed to add the city of Samarra to its list of... ...

Source: www.freshnews.in --- 13 days ago
Five trains that run to and fro daily on the World Heritage Kalka-Shimla rail line in Himachal Pradesh will remain off the tracks for a few more days due to landslides along the track, a senior railway official said Wednesday. "The rail traffic that has remained suspended since Sep 19 would be restored after two or [...] ...