When an aspiring UNESCO Global Geopark includes a World Heritage site or biosphere reserve ... UNESCO developed and issued new graphical standards and a Logo Toolkit in 2021. A new generic logo was ...

If you need to use the UNESCO name and logo in your capacity as a UNESCO World Heritage site, a Biosphere Reserve, a Global Geopark, a University Twinning and Networking chair, a school of the ...

The World Heritage List has designated 42 global treasures as the latest UNESCO World Heritage sites. Since its founding in 1972, the World Heritage Convention has inscribed sites of ...

For a location or landmark to attain UNESCO status, it needs to have serious special significance. There are three types of UNESCO World Heritage sites: cultural (e.g., the historic center of Vienna), ...

In November 1972 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) inaugurated the list by adopting a treaty known as the World Heritage Convention. Its continuing goal ...

The decision was made at a meeting of the U.N. World Heritage Committee in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, under the auspices of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO.

At a meeting in Luque, Paraguay, members of UNESCO’s committee for safeguarding humanity's cultural heritage voted to recognize 45 cultural practices and products around the world, including ...

Already researching getaways for 2024? If it’s picturesque you’re after, the top twenty most beautiful UNESCO World Heritage Sites have officially been determined. The United Nations ...

Each year, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reviews nominations for and selects new sites of “outstanding universal value” to its World Heritage List.

“We are trapped by their rules but there are no funds,” he continued, referring to UNESCO regulations around the changes that can and cannot be made at and near World Heritage sites. Lamu ...

Finally tonight, we leave you with scenes from some of the world's newest protected sites courtesy of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee. This vast landscape in the north of Scotland is helping ...