In February 2022, UNESCO facilitated a five-day capacity-building and needs assessment workshop to discuss the feasibility of extending Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains, a World Heritage property in ...

South Africa is currently home to twelve World Heritage Sites. The first three were awarded in 1999, with eight sites listed for their cultural significance and five for natural significance.

South America dazzles in its cultural and natural diversity. This huge continent includes 12 sovereign states (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru ...

World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites ...

The Marquesas are a beautiful, remote stretch of islands in the South Pacific. And, as of last weekend, they are also a UNESCO World Heritage site. The latest UNESCO convention added 24 new ...

UNESCO launched the first-ever comprehensive mapping of Africa's book industry, revealing a sector brimming with untapped potential. The new report ...

In keeping with the UNESCO Director-General’s policy of prioritizing African heritage, 5 new sites on the continent were inscribed on the World Heritage List: the Nelson Mandela memorial sites and the ...

According to UNESCO, Africa accounts for 12.26 percent of World Heritage Sites globally, but the sites' future is uncertain given the threat of rapid urbanization, weak protection laws and ...

The new UNESCO World Heritage sites added to the list this year include archaeological sites in the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces of South Africa that “provide the most varied and ...

Japan and South Korea are covering up Sado Island’s dark side in a severe misconstruction of the meanings of UNESCO World Heritage, diplomacy, and history.

The Pacific waters surrounding the Marquesas are “among the world’s last marine wilderness areas.” That’s according to UNESCO, which recently named the Marquesas a World Heritage site.