The
UNESCO Courier: World Heritage: great escapes
For the third consecutive year, the UNESCO Courier devotes its July-August
double issue to new sites listed as world heritage. This time, you
will visit fossilized cliffs in Canada, considered the "Galapagos
of the Carboniferous period", the island of Surtsey in Iceland,
which emerged from the sea 45 years ago, the vestiges of prehistoric
agriculture in Papua New Guinea, Armenian churches in Iran, the
birthplace of famous poet Nicolás Guillén in Cuba
and the former hideout of runaway slaves in Mauritius.
UNESCO. Courier. Publicated: 12-7-2008
World
Heritage Committee requests close surveillance of Bordeaux, Machu
Picchu, Timbuktu and Samarkand
The World Heritage Committee has asked that “reinforced monitoring”
be applied to four properties on UNESCO’s World Heritage List
in addition to the seven for which the surveillance mechanism is
already in place. Under the new monitoring mechanism, established
by the World Heritage Committee in 2007, regular missions can be
dispatched to World Heritage sites subjected to particular stress.
The purpose of the monitoring mechanism, which typically involves
sending experts to examine developments in situ, is to keep the
Committee informed of the situation on the ground on a regular basis
and guide it in its actions.
UNESCO. Press Release N°2008-61. UNESCOPRESS.
Publicated: 10-07-2008 |
