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ISSUES

The World Heritage

Historically, it was the Aswan dam project which brought about the Convention. In 1959, UNESCO launched an international campaign to save the Abou Simbel temple and the Philae temple from flooding, and thanks to the efforts of several States, they were finally moved. This event shows that it is necessary for countries to cooperate to preserve exceptional cultural sites.
Other international campaigns of the same kind followed and UNESCO then prepared a Convention project solely on cultural heritage. Finally, mainly through encouragement from the United States, it was a Convention on both the world's cultural and natural heritage that was adopted. This is what is why the Convention is original. The Convention defines the type of natural or cultural sites that deserve to be registered on the « World heritage List » and which then (theoretically) receive particular attention and protection.

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INDIA - Except 2008, the Keoladeo national park in Rajasthan has been receiving little or no water for the past six years. A...

NICARAGUA - The Nicaraguan state has embarked on an iron-fisted policy, including the use of military force, to clamp down on those...

GERMANY - BERLIN - L'Allemagne rêve pour ses forêts de hêtres d'une inscription au patrimoine mondial et devait déposer vendredi...

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DEBATES

Community conservation areas in Central America: recognising them for equity and good governance

IUCN

COMMUNITY CONSERVED AREAS (CCAs) can be defined as natural and modified ecosystems with significant biodiversity, ecological and...

Natural Protected Areas in France, An Effective Approach to Slow the Impact of Human Development on the Land

Protected areas with very little human development, little...

Management of Protected Areas: The Problems of Integration and Delimitation in Indigenous Societies

With the exception of English-speaking and Scandinavian...

FOCUS

-Malgré la mondialisation, un monde encore divisé

The world is divided: by religion, by the gap between rich and poor, by nationalism and prejudice, and by humanity’s desire for land and natural resources belonging to others… Sometimes these conflicts lead to violence, but they don’t always end...

VIDEOS

05/03/2009

Conséquence du réchauffement climatique, des populations toujours plus...

GREEN TIPS

Educate to Protect

Since 2001, all primary school students in the State of Colima, on the north pacific coast of Mexico, have...

INDICATORS

National biodiversity index
Threatened ecosystems

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