A new network of young cultural heritage professionals emerges from a UNESCO/EU project
Tuesday, 11 June 2019
Celebrating women scientists in World Heritage marine sites
Saturday, 8 June 2019
The Third Cycle of Periodic Reporting (2018 – 2024), a global World Heritage conservation monitoring exercise carried out in six-year cycles, begin in this second half of September 2019 with reporting in the Africa region.
35 African States Parties with 95 World Heritage properties (52 cultural, 38 natural and 5 mixed properties) as well as the site(s) inscribed at the 43rd session of the ...
World Environment Day: Cleaner air for our cities and ourselves
Wednesday, 5 June 2019
In Memoriam: Michael Petzet
Friday, 31 May 2019
World Heritage: UNESCO to host Africa-China World Heritage cooperation forum
Tuesday, 28 May 2019
Join UNESCO to celebrate women in ocean science at World Oceans Day 2019
Friday, 24 May 2019
#MyAfricanHeritage Instagram Video Contest winners
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
International Day for Biological Diversity 2019: Our Biodiversity, Our Food, Our Health
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
The World Heritage Centre organized a series of testing sessions for the on‑line tool of the World Heritage Policy Compendium. These testing sessions, which took place between April and May 2019, gathered feedback and comments from key World Heritage stakeholders on the Policy Compendium On‑line Tool, currently being developed by the World Heritage Centre.
The consultation is carried out ...
2018-2019 World Heritage Map Published
Friday, 17 May 2019
European Young Heritage Professionals Forum to begin in Zadar, Croatia
Friday, 17 May 2019
The panel on ‘Heritage and Water’ during the UNESCO International Water Conference (13-14 May at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris) highlighted the spiritual and cultural significance of water at many heritage sites, and called for enhancing cooperation between planners and practitioners to demonstrate the importance of water management systems to policymakers.
They also emphasized the need to ...
World Migratory Bird Day, 11 May 2019
Friday, 10 May 2019
Enter the #MyAfricanHeritage Instagram video contest
Friday, 10 May 2019
Peru sets long-term vision with 18 sites for Tentative List
Thursday, 9 May 2019
Describing nature’s decline as unprecedented and citing among many indicators, 1,000,000 species threatened with extinction, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) laid bare the threats to all life on earth in its Global Assessement Report, released at UNESCO headquarters today.
UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay says the report put ...
Launched at UNESCO in Paris on Monday 6 May, the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) sends an alarming message to the world. Ecosystems and biodiversity are deteriorating faster than at any time in human history, undermining humanity’s well-being and future ...
Since 2016, we have been celebrating African World Heritage Day on 5 May. Proclaimed by the General Conference at its 38th session in 2015, this day was established to raise public awareness, among young people in particular, of the immense potential of the African cultural and natural heritage. For this fourth celebration, we would like not only to celebrate the richness of this heritage, ...