World Heritage Site

• Alberta’s Writing-on-Stone preserving Blackfoot heritage despite continued vandalism

  In 2019, after years of advocacy, Writing-on-Stone joined five other Alberta locations such as the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

  Features

  May 21, 2022
  
• Peru to plant 1 million trees around Machu Picchu site

  Machu Picchu was rediscovered in 1911, after having been swallowed by the jungle.

  Environment

  Jan 13, 2020
  
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• Pimachiowin Aki boreal forest officially a World Heritage Site

  Pimachiowin Aki boreal forest is officially a World Heritage Site.

  Canada

  Jul 1, 2018
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• Stretch of Canadian boreal forest deemed a UNESCO world heritage site

  A stretch of boreal forest along the Manitoba-Ontario boundary has won international recognition for its pristine environment and connection with Indigenous culture.

  Canada

  Jul 1, 2018
• Wood Buffalo National Park is threatened by industry, climate change: environmental assessment

  An environmental assessment provided to UNESCO says oilsands activity, climate change and hydro development are fundamentally changing the environment of Wood Buffalo National Park in northern Alberta.

  Environment

  Jun 26, 2018
• Wood Buffalo World Heritage Site ‘significantly threatened’: international scientists

  One of the world's largest groups of conservation scientists says Canada's biggest national park is one of the most threatened World Heritage Sites in North America. 

  Canada

  Nov 15, 2017
• Sewage fight: Activist charged with assaulting mayor in historic Nova Scotia town

  Bill Flower, who also runs a charter boat company, says he has been charged with assault after allegedly smeared sewage on Lunenburg Mayor Rachel Bailey

  Canada

  Oct 11, 2017
• Groups want Wood Buffalo National Park on list of World Heritage Sites in danger

  First Nations and environmental groups want the federal government to revisit its approval of British Columbia's Site C dam which they say would threaten a national park that is a World Heritage Site.

  Environment

  Oct 3, 2016
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• UN looks at BC hydro project’s potential impact on Alberta world heritage site

  A United Nations monitoring mission to a world heritage site in northern Alberta appears likely to focus more attention on the contested Site C hydroelectric project next door in British Columbia.

  Environment

  Sep 28, 2016
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• ISIS video shows killing of government troops in historic Palmyra amphitheatre

  A video posted online Saturday purportedly shows Islamic State fighters killing some 25 Syrian government soldiers in the historic town of Palmyra in central Syria.

  World

  Jul 6, 2015