The latest edition of the World Heritage Map is now available to order! This new design, poster-sized wall map features all 1 ...

A new analysis by UNESCO and World Resources Institute (WRI) reveals that 73% of World Heritage sites are highly exposed to ...

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

As the climate crisis intensifies, both cultural and natural World Heritage sites face growing and unprecedented challenges. In response, the Heidelberg Center for Cultural Heritage (HCCH) and ICOMOS ...

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, ...

UNESCO World Heritage CentreThe 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 ...

The significant number of reports prepared by the UNESCO Secretariat and the Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Committee represents an exceptional documentation on numerous conservation issues. It ...

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

La toute dernière édition de la carte du patrimoine mondial peut désormais être commandée ! Cette nouvelle version, au format poster, présente les 1 223 biens inscrits sur la Liste du patrimoine mondi ...

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 ...

The 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 effectiveness in a World ...

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 ...