In October 2006 the World Heritage Centre published the UNESCO World Heritage Centre's Natural Heritage Strategy, which was endorsed by the World Heritage Committee. The strategy outlines the guiding ...

UNESCO is a non-profit intergovernmental organization. Contributions to UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre—made by individuals like you—are used for projects implemented by experts to protect World ...

Witje, a rescued grey seal pup, finds a new home at the World Heritage Centre in the Netherlands. The facility aims to rehabilitate injured seals like Witje, teaching the public about the Wadden Sea ...

The 4-month-old gray seal is a lucky survivor able to swim in one of nine new tanks at the World Heritage Centre, or WEC, a recently opened seal rescue facility in Lauwersoog, in the north of the ...

World Heritage Sites may sound like something only culture vultures will care to see. But don’t make the mistake of ...

A forum of heritage lovers has sought the culture ministry's help. In their letter, outcry over a Mumbai politician's ...

A three-member Barbadian delegation is in Nairobi, Kenya, attending the International Conference on Cultural Heritage in ...

Founded, according to legend, by Romulus and Remus in 753 BC, Rome was first the centre of the Roman Republic, then of the Roman Empire, and it became the capital of the Christian world in the 4th ...

To address these pressing needs, the UNESCO International Geoscience and Geoparks Programme Secretariat, in collaboration with the World Heritage Centre and experts from the International Union for ...

NEW DELHI— The UNESCO World Heritage Committee today called on the United States and Mexico to assess and mitigate the harms of the border wall — particularly its effects on the mammal communities of ...

Once submitted to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the Historic Astronomical Observatories of Ireland will be formally added to Ireland’s Tentative List. The Department noted on Friday that the ...