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A regional workshop was one of the regional efforts of the World Heritage programme in supporting the World Heritage site in Socotra, which aimed to exchange the experiences in environment management and wildlife conservation between the partners.
Oil and gas company Total has confirmed that it will not carry out extractive operations within natural World Heritage sites, including Virunga National Park. Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ welcomes this decision and calls on all oil and gas companies to follow suit.
 In January 2014, IPBES issued a through IPBES member governments and other relevant stakeholders to help implementing its first work programme 2014-2018. It is highly relevant to the experts within the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ network.
A tiger conservation programme managed by Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥, International Union for Conservation of Nature, has received EUR 20 million from the German government through the KfW Development Bank. The aim of the programme is to increase the number of tigers in the wild and improve the livelihoods of…
The African World Heritage Fund celebrates the year of entrepreneurship and business skills in 2014, a new theme to help focus efforts on boosting community involvement in World Heritage conservation.
The history of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥â€™s work on World Heritage is inextricably linked with Jim Thorsell’s life-long dedication to nature conservation. His passion for adventure into the wild led him to participate in field missions to over 800 protected areas in 90 countries and conduct 150 natural site…
The Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ World Heritage Panel has met to discuss Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥â€™s position on the nominations of new natural sites proposed for inscription on the World Heritage List in 2014.
As we step into 2014, year of the World Parks Congress, Célia Zwahlen takes us through the importance of World Heritage sites as key leaders in meeting the challenges faced by protected areas worldwide.
This study identifies the relationships that exist between World Heritage cultural landscapes and protected areas, and documents the practical management and governance associations that occur between them. It looks at i) the conceptual similarities and differences between these two systems of…