Decisions taken by the 35th session of the World Heritage Committee in Paris at their meeting from 19-29 June 2011 are now online Twenty-five sites were inscribed on the World Heritage List including 21 cultural properties, one mixed and three natural. The World Heritage List now numbers 936 properties: 183 natural; 725 cultural; and 28 [...]
ICOMOS Documentation Centre, Paris- World Heritage News
- The Rapid Response Facility Contributes to avoiding the ecological isolation of Romania's Retezat Massif
- UNESCO and Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock launch 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention
- Statement of the United Nations Foundation in Support of the World Heritage Convention's 40th Anniversary
Remote Access to World Heritage Sites – conference 23-24 November 2011
Remote Access to World Heritage – I Know Where I’m Going, Conference, 23-24 November 2011, Edinburgh, UK The UK National Commission for UNESCO is running a conference on the potential for new technologies to create remote-access for visitors to World Heritage or other cultural or natural sites. St Kilda World Heritage Site will be used [...]
ICOMOS-UK one-day workshop on Heritage Impact Assessments for World Heritage Sites, 17th March 2011
This Workshop introduces the new ICOMOS Guidance on Heritage Impact Assessments for World Heritage sites. All World Heritage sites in the UK will shortly have an agreed Statement of Outstanding Universal value (SoOUV), setting out why the property was considered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee to have OUV at the time of its inscription. [...]
