Preserve world heritage for everyone to enjoy
http://abcnewspapers.com/2012/09/03/preserve-world-heritage-for-everyone-to-enjoy/
The gist of it is that some places are so physically or culturally important that they should be preserved for the entire world to enjoy. I was fortunate enough so see one of these sites in June, through a class at the University of Minnesota. Machu ...
International experts to make heritage dossier
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/International-experts-to-make-heritage-dossier/articleshow/16242413.cms
NEW DELHI: Majuli Islands, hill forts of Rajasthan, Shantiniketan and Qutub Shahi monuments ? all of them have been pushed by the Archaeological Survey of India for Unesco's coveted world heritage tag. But all have missed it due to either incomplete ...
Osun Osogbo 2012 - A Display of Yoruba Cultural Heritage
http://allafrica.com/stories/201209030792.html
LEADERSHIP SUNDAY also gathered that the trend of event for the festival have been changed since the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) listed Osun Osogbo Groove as a World Heritage site and the Friday grand ...
Mt. Fuji Heritage Site field survey begins
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/09/03/mt-fuji-heritage-site-field-survey-begins.html
The International Council on Monuments and Sites, an advisory body for UNESCO, has started a field survey on Mt. Fuji, which the central and Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectural governments seek to have designated as a World Heritage Site.
Superyachts lobby for access, changed rules on Barrier Reef
http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Superyachts-lobby-for-access,-changed-rules-on-Barrier-Reef/101663
The strategic assessment is an overall assessment of the effectiveness of management arrangements to protect the environmental values of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. The goal is to ensure the World heritage values of the Great Barrier ...
Saving ancient UNESCO heritage in China
http://www.traveldailynews.asia/news/article/50315/saving-ancient-unesco-heritage-in
Most of them are over thousand years and this classical architecture prompted UNESCO to declare the range of mountains a World Heritage Site in 1994. Yuzhengong Palace is one of the nine grand places in Wudang Mountains. Built some 600 years ago in ...
Heritage at crossroads
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/9/2/focus/11903362&sec=focus
Since George Town received World Heritage Site (WHS) status in 2008, interest in pre-war houses has spiked, not just among locals but also the Malaysian diaspora and foreigners. In just four years, more than 800 old buildings in the World Heritage Site ...
ADIHEX 2012 fully-booked
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=54175
Chairman of the ADIHEX Higher Organizing Committee and Adviser for Culture and Heritage in the Court of the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed Khalaf Al Mazrouei, said that the successive successes achieved by the Abu Dhabi International Hunting ...
