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Bookmark or Share- UNESCO World Heritage CentreThe World Heritage emblem represents the interdependence of the world’s natural and cultural diversity. It is used to identify properties protected by the World Heritage Convention and inscribed on the official World Heritage List, and represents the universal values for which the Convention stands.
- Ancient City of Sigiriya - UNESCO World Heritage CentreEnsuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites are vulnerable to the effects of uncontrolled urban development, unsustainable tourism practices, neglect, natural calamities, pollution, political instability, and conflict.
- Thailand - UNESCO World Heritage ConventionState of conservation of World Heritage properties since 1979 and the threats they have faced in the past, or are currently facing. More about State of Conservation
- Nahanni National Park - UNESCO World Heritage CentreNahanni National Park World Heritage property, located in Canada’s Northwest Territories, is a 470,000 hectare undisturbed natural area of deep river canyons cutting through mountain ranges, with huge waterfalls and complex cave systems. The geomorphology of the property is outstanding in its wealth of form and complexity of evolution.
- Town of Luang Prabang - UNESCO World Heritage CentreThe authorities have developed the tools necessary to manage the property: Law on urban heritage protection, establishment of decentralized cooperation with the French town of Chinon, creation of a Luang Prabang World Heritage Department and establishment of National and Local Heritage Committees.
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