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Award-winning Ballantrae food and drink festival back online this weekend Last year's event was a success with the 2021 edition linking up with other European nations. The festival will include a packed programme of online markets, presentations and discussions (Image: Submitted/ Ayrshire Post) Get the Ayrshire stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe here When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used i...

Kon Ha Nung to promote World Biosphere Reserve recognition Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công  13/04/2021    07:32 GMT+7 The central highlands Gia Lai Province, in co-operation with Man and the Biosphere Programme, an intergovernmental scientific programme of UNESCO, has completed a dossier for the World Biosphere Reserve recognition of Kon Ha Nung Highlands. Two gray-shanked douc langurs (pygathrix cinerea) – the world's largest troop livin...

Although the battle is over ownership of land, it is also over contrasting beliefs on whether it should be used as a holiday and leisure venue or as a shrine where community members have performed sacred spiritual rites for many years. Scores of people have flocked to the Bushbuckridge Nature Reserve to perform rituals as part of African culture and beliefs that regard certain rivers and mountains as sacred places of the spirits.   The battle for the preservation of sacred sites has seen the United Nations Education and Scientific Council (Unesco) intervene through various programmes throug...

Shell supports Charlotteville jetty beautification Wednesday 24 February 2021 Charlotteville Jetty with murals showing fishing boats, yachts and natural heritage in the North East Tobago UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Area. - THE Environmental Research Institute Charlotteville (ERIC) and the Charlotteville Police Youth Club (CPYC) recently partnered for a much-needed jetty beautification and tourism project in Charlotteville. A media release said this activity is the first phase of a three-year project to develop a yacht tourism-based social enterprise that is funded by Shell. It will include ...

Search Tuesday, 2 February 2021 Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, Australia © Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation This year’s theme for World Wetlands Day ‘Wetlands and Water,’ highlights the importance of wetlands as a source of freshwater and encourages action to restore them and stop their loss.  The UNESCO World Heritage Convention works continuously with other entities to protect the most important wetland systems in the world. Wetlands are currently protected under different designations, including the Ramsar Convention on wetlands, the UNES...