Tag: World Heritage Site

  • Great Barrier Reef: Australia to put in place urgent safeguarding measures requested by UNESCO

    Great Barrier Reef: Australia to put in place urgent safeguarding measures requested by UNESCO

    Paris, June, 2023 – UNESCO welcomes Australia’s decision to implement urgent new protection measures to safeguard the Great Barrier Reef recommended by UNESCO. The measures include a ban on fishing with gillnets. The Australian government formalized its commitments in a letter addressed to Audrey Azoulay, the Director General of UNESCO this week.   “The Great…

  • Landmarks of Ancient Yemen added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List

    Landmarks of Ancient Yemen added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List

    Paris, January, 2023 – The World Heritage Committee meeting in an extraordinary session on Thursday inscribed the Landmarks of the Ancient Kingdom of Saba, Marib (Yemen) on the List of World Heritage in Danger. The Landmarks of the Ancient Kingdom of Saba, Marib, is a serial property comprising seven archaeological sites that bear witness to…

  • Ukraine: How UNESCO Supports Odesa’s Heritage & Cultural Life

    Ukraine: How UNESCO Supports Odesa’s Heritage & Cultural Life

    Paris, 30 August 2022 – At a meeting with UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay at the Organization’s Headquarters, Oleksandr Tkachenko, Ukrainian Minister of Culture and Information, announced that his country will request the inscription of Odesa on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. For its part, the Organization will deploy new measures to protect Ukrainian cultural heritage, particularly in…

  • Ukraine: UNESCO Statement Following UN General Assembly Resolution

    Ukraine: UNESCO Statement Following UN General Assembly Resolution

    Paris, France 3 March – Following the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Resolution on Aggression against Ukraine, and in light of the devastating escalation of violence, UNESCO is deeply concerned by developments in Ukraine and is working to assess damage across its spheres of competence (notably education, culture, heritage and information) and to…

  • Crop Circles And Sacred Sites Of England Tour

    Crop Circles And Sacred Sites Of England Tour

    Most tangible of Earth mystery Created anew each year On underground currents of energy By sacred sites do appear – Bedazzle us with your beauty yet again!   There are few mysteries more accessible than crop circles. Each spring and summer these enigmatic patterns appear overnight in crop fields, particularly around the Avebury landscape temple…

  • Ontario Beach Zoomorph Profiled In Mexico City University Of Art Publication

    Ontario Beach Zoomorph Profiled In Mexico City University Of Art Publication

    Artist Jarrod Barker, was recently invited to take part in MUCA-Roma’s Ala Afuera project. Based in the Roma district of Mexico City, MUCA is a University Museum of science and art. What made this project doubly exciting was the opportunity to show case a part of Barker’s home internationally. The curators asked for a submission…