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	World Heritage Tours - Tours in the Middle East, Tours in South America, Tours in Indochina, Tours in Africa, African ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In recognition of the fact that the sites and remains of the civilisations of bygone, and not so bygone, days are the heritage of all humankind, UNESCO has developed an elaborate program to ensure the preservation of these sites for ours and generations to come.
		From thousands of sites around the world, UNESCO has chosen approximately 754 sites that have had a far-reaching impact on the world we know today.
		These World Heritage Sites are both tangible proof of the progress that has brought us to where we are today, and monuments to what we have has passed.
	www.worldheritagetours.com (277 words)

	UNESCO World Heritage Centre - Official Site
		Sao Tome and Principe ratifies the World Heritage Convention
		UNESCO Mission reports on war damage to cultural heritage in Lebanon
		UNESCO sends experts to carry out technical assessment of the effects of the war on Lebanon’s cultural heritage
	whc.unesco.org (213 words)

	The Deptford Lads: World Heritage Page
		This is designed to identify cultural and natural sites of global importance, with a view to ensuring their protection.
		In each case, sites must be of "outstanding universal value" as defined according to a set of criteria.
		More information about the World Heritage Convention, the Committee, and the process of considering sites can be found at the WHC website.
	www.highrise.dircon.co.uk /deptlads/heritage/index.htm (377 words)

	World Heritage sites (1 - 15) - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		The present archaeological site is a repository of the ruins representing each period in the city's development.
		Together with its gardens, the site of the world's first zoo in 1752, it is a remarkable Baroque ensemble and a perfect example of Gesamtkunstwerk.
		The system's seven sites illustrate the evolutionary history of reef development and are a significant habitat for threatened species, including marine turtles, manatees and the American marine crocodile.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /world_heritage_sites.htm (1131 words)

	Orkney's UNESCO World Heritage Site
		In early December, 1999, it was confirmed that the Heart of Neolithic Orkney - the area of the West Mainland surrounding the Ring o' Brodgar - had been added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
		UNESCO's World Heritage List is specifically to identify and protect sites of "outstanding universal value," ensuring they are protected and appreciated for many years to come.
		To become a World Heritage Site, the governments of the relevant country must submit an application to the World Heritage Committee.
	www.orkneyjar.com /history/worldheritagesite/index.html (229 words)

	Unesco WH sites - IUCN - Canada
		Most natural ecosystems and heritage sites, both on land and in the sea, are at risk of being affected by climate change.
		“World Heritage is not only about protecting places of exceptional value; they also protect some of the most important and endangered biodiversity of the planet and maintain ecosystems critical to the well-being of millions of people,” commented Achim Steiner, Director General of the World Conservation Union (IUCN).
		Monitoring example of IUCN in Canada: IUCN is involved on an ongoing basis in the monitoring of the state of conservation of existing WH sites and coordinated a 2005 mission to Miguasha (Canada).
	www.iucn.org /places/canada/prog/Unesco_WHsites.htm (334 words)

	Wilsonart Laminate - The Statement: UNESCO World Heritage Sites
		While it is considered in the interest of the international community to preserve each site for future generations of humankind, each site listed is still considered the property of the country on whose territory the site is located.
		The ratio of cultural to natural sites on the World Heritage List is roughly 3:1, and several new sites are added to the list each December.
		Sites subject to unusual levels of pollution, natural hazards, or other problems may be placed on the associated List of World Heritage in Danger until improvements are made.
	www.wilsonart.com /design/statement/printarticle.asp?articleID=228 (465 words)

	World Heritage Site - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Site #444: The Ksar of Aït Benhaddou (Morocco).
		Site #772: The Banaue Rice Terraces in the mountains of Ifugao (Philippines).
		Site #936: The Cueva de las Manos in a remote region of Patagonia (Argentina).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Heritage_Site (1416 words)

	World Heritage Sites in India,Heritage Sites of India,UNESCO World Heritage Site in India
		World Heritage Sites in India,Heritage Sites of India,UNESCO World Heritage Site in India
		The heritage sites of Indian tourist circuit are the monuments selected by UNESCO to encourage protection and preservation of cultural sites considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.
		The Mahabodhi Temple Complex is one of the four holy sites related to the life of the Lord Buddha, and particularly to the attainment of Enlightenment.
	www.taj-mahal-india-travel.com /world-heritage-sites-india.html (1534 words)

	World Heritage Site in India,UNESCO World Heritage Sites,Indian World Heritage Site
		A UNESCO World Heritage Site may be defined as a specific site (forests, mountain range, lake, desert, building, complex or city) which is nominated for the World Heritage Program administered by UNESCO.
		These are outstanding sites which UNESCO aims to preserve for the future and for which funds are released and technical expertise is provided.
		Manas has been included as a world heritage site as it is considered a bio diversity hotspot.
	www.vacationsindia.com /world-heritage-site.html (1369 words)

	UNESCO World Heritage Volcano Sites
		According to the World Heritage Convention, "natural heritage" designates outstanding physical, biological, and geological features; habitats of threatened plants or animal species and areas of value on scientific or aesthetic grounds or from the point of view of conservation.
		The site is a unique example of island building through on-going volcanic processes, and represents the most recent activity in the continuing process of the geological origin and change of the Hawaiian Archipelago.
		This is one of the most outstanding volcanic regions in the world, with a high density of active volcanoes, a variety of types, and a wide range of related features.
	www.volcanolive.com /unesco.html (1417 words)

	Zegrahm Expeditions - UNESCO & World Heritage
		UNESCO World Heritage Sites are the prized marbles in the traveler’s rucksack of collected experiences.
		The concept of universal heritage was born, and, in 1972, an international treaty—the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage—was established “to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.”
		The process of inscribing a site to the World Heritage List begins with the submission by a country (Member State) of a “Tentative List”—a comprehensive inventory of all its significant cultural and natural places.
	www.zeco.com /library/unesco.asp (486 words)

	Austria - UNESCO World Heritage sites - Travel-Images.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The World Heritage List was established under terms of The Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage adopted in November 1972 at the 17th General Conference of UNESCO.
		The Convention states that a World Heritage Committee "will establish, keep up-to-date and publish" a World Heritage List of cultural and natural properties, submitted by the States Parties and considered to be of outstanding universal value.
		One of the main responsibilities of this Committee is to provide technical co-operation under the World Heritage Fund for the safeguarding of World Heritage properties to States Parties whose resources are insufficient.
	geo.ya.com /travelimages/unesco-austria.html (262 words)

	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization \| UNESCO.ORG
		In short, UNESCO promotes international co-operation among its 191* Member States and six Associate Members in the fields of education, science, culture and communication.
		UNESCO is working to create the conditions for genuine dialogue based upon respect for shared values and the dignity of each civilization and culture.
		The world urgently requires global visions of sustainable development based upon observance of human rights, mutual respect and the alleviation of poverty, all of which lie at the heart of UNESCO’s mission and activities.
	portal.unesco.org /en/ev.php@URL_ID=3328&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (289 words)

	Krakow Info - UNESCO World Heritage Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Krakow and in the Vicinity
		Millions of visitors, the crowned heads and such celebrities as Goethe and Sarah Bernhardt among them, have enthused over that subterranean world of labyrinthine passages, giant caverns, underground lakes and chapels with sculptures in the crystalline salt and rich ornamentation carved in the salt rock.
		The site of the Nazi notorious Auschwitz death camp is an hour’s drive from Krakow.
	www.krakow-info.com /unesco.htm (255 words)

	South Africa / UNESCO World Heritage Sites in South Africa
		Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations.
		World Heritage sites belong to all the peoples of the world, irrespective of the territory on which they are located.
		The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.
	www.sa-venues.com /unesco_world_heritage_sites.htm (913 words)

	World Heritage Sites safaris, lodges and wildlife tours
		It is a UNESCO world heritage site; its highly diverse ecosystems teem with African wildlife.
		It is a 200 km mountainous wonderland and a world heritage site.
		UNESCO: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world.
	www.ecoafrica.com /african/travel/WorldHeritageSites.html (981 words)

	ESA Portal - Satellites to focus on UNESCO World Heritage sites
		UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura and ESA Director-General Antonio Rodotà launched the Open Initiative partnership on Wednesday 18 June.
		ESA and UNESCO are already co-operating in a joint project called BEGo (Build Environment for Gorilla) to use satellite data to map remote mountain parks in Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
		These parks are either World Heritage sites or candidate sites, making up the last refuge of the less than 600 mountain gorillas still alive.
	www.esa.int /esaCP/SEMKZ9WO4HD_index_2.html (800 words)

	UNESCO World Heritage \| about us
		UNESCO-World Heritage e.V. The UNESCO-Welterbestätten Deutschland e.V. is the union of the German UNESCO world heritage sites and the corresponding touristic organisations.
		The office of the association is located at the historical Palais Salfeld at the centre of Quedlinburg old town, which has become a world heritage site in 1994.
		This involves an opportunity to extend the appeal and accessibility of world heritage and also to guarantee the conservation of the world heritage sites on a lasting basis through the income generated by tourism.
	www.unesco-welterbe.de /en/uebersicht/wir_uns_unesco.html (331 words)

	UNESCO World Heritage List
		2000 The Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots
		2003 Gebel Barkal and the Sites of the Napatan Region
		The Convention states that a World Heritage Committee "will establish, keep up-to-date and publish" a World Heritage List of cultural and natural properties, submitted by the States and considered to be of outstanding universal value.
	fp.thesalmons.org /lynn/world.heritage.html (1989 words)

	First Reading - Hawaii LRB Library: UNESCO World Heritage Sites and the NW Hawaiian Islands
		In 1972 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted an international treaty, the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, to identify, protect, and preserve sites around the world considered to be of great value to humanity.
		These have come to be known as World Heritage sites.
		In the United States, there are 20 World Heritage sites, including two jointly administered with Canada.
	hawaii.gov /lrb/libblog/2005/08/unesco-world-heritage-sites-and-nw.html (238 words)

	UNESCO World Heritage Sites as Vacation Destinations Worldwide.
		As citizens of the world, we must surely celebrate the existence of these unique testimonies to the outstanding universal values of both nature and humanity; as global explorers we may reward our good intentions and our imaginations by personally sampling and savoring at least a selection of them ourselves.
		http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/ for a current listing of sites by country; http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=86 for the most endangered sites (that means, unless there is a war currently going on in the neighborhood, you should go and visit quickly!).
		The sites have yielded many treasures and shed light on the history of the different nations that inhabited the Land of Israel, particularly the kingdoms of Judah and Israel.
	www.travelwithachallenge.com /UNESCO-Sites.htm (1285 words)

	Unesco World Heritage Sites in Germany
		The conferral of world heritage status upon three sites in Weimar brings to the UNESCO list a cultural treasure which is a highly authentic representation of the "Classical Weimar", the creation of "Bauhaus" and the handwritten works of Goethe (UNESCO "Memory of the World" list), preserved by the Goethe-Schiller-Archive.
		UNESCO acknowledged the global impact of the "Bauhaus" in Weimar in 1996 and the treasures of the "Goethe-Schiller-Archive" which was listed in the "Memory of the world" in 2001.
		In 1994, UNESCO awarded the Völklingen Ironworks the status of a World Cultural Heritage site, as the only ironworks surviving worldwide from the heyday of the iron and steel industry.
	www.luxurytraveler.com /unesco_world_heritage_sites_in_germany.html (6592 words)

	UNESCO World Heritage sites - List of those visited by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		The Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots
		Historic Centre of Oaxaca and Archaeological Site of Monte Alban
		Monastery and Site of the Escurial in Madrid
	www.galenfrysinger.com /world_heritage.htm (506 words)

	Teaching with Historic Places -- Lesson plans featuring UNESCO World Heritage Sites
		World Heritage designation is for places on earth that are of outstanding universal value to humanity and as such, have been inscribed on the World Heritage List to be protected for future generations to appreciate and enjoy.
		The sites featured in these lessons are also listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and are free and ready for immediate classroom use by students in history and social studies classes.
		For more information about World Heritage Sites in the United States, please visit the NPS Office of International Affairs webpage on the World Heritage Convention.
	www.cr.nps.gov /NR/twhp/worldheritage.htm (450 words)

	Volunteering at World Heritage Sites: UNESCO Culture Sector
		There is something for everyone--from volunteering close to home as a guide at a local World Heritage site to travelling across the globe to help save the whales to cyber-volunteering to do data entry or public outreach.
		Participants conduct surface surveys of house sites and dig test-pits in gardens to document settlement distribution and the evolution of farming technologies.
		The Médina of Fez, inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1981, is the spiritual and intellectual capital of Morocco.Meeting and working with local craftsmen, participants will learn the art of plastering and carpentry, which has been practiced for a thousand years in this ancient city.
	portal.unesco.org /culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=7884&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (2067 words)

	CLT: Asia-Pacific World Heritage Sites
		UNESCO seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity through the implementation of the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972), often referred to as the World Heritage Convention.
		The World Heritage List includes cultural heritage sites, natural heritage sites and mixed sites which conform to criteria elucidated by the Operational Guidelines of the World Heritage Convention.
		The World Heritage List now numbers 830 properties in total, forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value.
	www.unescobkk.org /index.php?id=446 (270 words)

	USATODAY.com - Three UNESCO World Heritage sites in Lebanon need urgent repairs, agency says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		PARIS (AP) — Three UNESCO World Heritage sites in Lebanon, including some of the Middle East's most significant ancient ruins, are in urgent need of repairs after a month of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, the U.N. agency said Monday.
		It has been described as Lebanon's worst environmental disaster, and UNESCO said Byblos was the most seriously damaged of the heritage sites.
		Bouchenaki warned that the site would have to be cleaned before winter to prevent permanent devastation.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-09-18-lebanon-heritage_x.htm?csp=34 (551 words)

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