Workshop Highlights Extractive Sector's Commitments to Preserve World ...
http://www.justmeans.com/Workshop-Highlights-Extractive-Sector-s-Commitments-Preserve-World-Heritage-Sites/55946.html
High on the workshop's agenda was a discussion of so-called "no-go" commitments, which prevent extractive companies from exploring or mining in World Heritage properties. All 22 member companies of the ICMM, including sector leaders like Barrick Gold, ...
Iran celebrates registration of Qabus Tower on UNESCO list
http://tehrantimes.com/arts-and-culture/101375-iran-celebrates-registration-of-qabus-tower-on-unesco-list
TEHRAN -- The registration of Iran's Qabus Tower, the world's tallest tower made of bricks, on UNESCO's World Heritage List was celebrated in a ceremony in the town of Gonbad-e Kavus in Golestan Province on Sunday. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ...
Morocco's UNESCO World Heritage Sites
http://atlantablackstar.com/2012/09/09/moroccos-world-heritage-sites/
The Portuguese Fortified City of Mazagan was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004, on the basis of its status as an ?outstanding example of the interchange of influences between European and Moroccan cultures? and as an ?early example of ...
Mapungubwe Heritage Site described as a conservation hub
http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/267fd6804caabb318705efacdad7a1b1/Mapungubwe-Heritage-Site-described-as-a-conservation-hub-20121009
Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa says the Mapungubwe World Heritage Site outside Musina in Limpopo is a conservation hub for the communities living around it and the country at large. Molewa says the development at the site will ...
World competition set for Saturday at Heritage Weekend
http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20120909/NEWS/120909853/1016/OPINION02?Title=World-competition-set-for-Saturday-at-Heritage-Weekend
The Gee Haw Whimmy Diddle Competition is the central event at the 32nd annual Heritage Weekend that takes place Saturday and Sept. 16, at the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville. "The judges have to be super vigilant," says April ...
Project to turn CST into world class station hits heritage block
http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Project-to-turn-CST-into-world-class-station-hits-heritage-block/Article1-926346.aspx
A project aimed at transforming Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) into a world class station continues to be in jeopardy. International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), the advisory body to Unesco's World Heritage Committee, has rejected the ...
In Iran, Isfahanis shrug off risk of attack
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/in-iran-isfahanis-shrug-off-risk-of-attack/2012/09/07/c8bf108a-f90f-11e1-a073-78d05495927c_story.html
ISFAHAN, Iran ? Isfahan is home to several thousand historic monuments, many of which UNESCO recognizes as world heritage sites. The central Iranian city is also the site of one of the country's nuclear installations. As speculation grows over whether ...
New series on world heritage sites
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/483136
The National Geographic Channel (NGC) has added a new series of specially-commissioned documentaries to its World Heritage Special initiative. Titled Access 360° World Heritage , the series consists of nine episodes commissioned and produced by NGC ...
