Representatives from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) are in Chernihiv on an official mission to assess the damage to the city's cultural heritage from Russian attacks. The damaged sites include the 12th-century Piatnytska Church, St. Anthony's Caves, and the Chernihiv Regional...
This is a good time for me to share how #RCMP used drones to spy on us at Fairy Creek & Tiny House blockades. Then used surveillance data to locate our WIFI media & satellite communications stations. Then commenced siege raids, targeting our communications stations first & our food & medical stations after. We built portable solar powered satellite comms units, after 6 comms stations were destroyed by RCMP - we mounted them on donated hand wagons.
The #UNESCO#WorldHeritage site of Bhimbetka is located in central India, Madhya Pradesh. Its renowned for its #rockart within its many rock shelters (more than 750!) , and it also has continuous occupation from the #Palaeolithic to the #Historical period. Its interesting to see the dense jungle(s) surrounding the area, and also the various springs. How do you think this #landscape would have affected the choice of the site by past populations?
「But there is more to China’s efforts through Unesco [#worldheritage status] than increasing tea sales and tourism. The Communist Party claims that present-day China, which has dozens (perhaps hundreds) of ethnic minorities, is a single nation with a continuous history stretching back thousands of years. National identity is conflated with that of the Han, the ethnic group accounting for more than 90% of the population. China’s heritage laws aim to maintain “the unification of the country” and foster “social harmony”. In practice, this often means distorting history so that it aligns with the party’s view of the past and reinforces its vision of nationhood.」
The actual imperial military occupations and settler colonialism of both Tibetan and Uyghur homelands only began soon after Chinese communists had overthrown the Republic of China (the losing Kuomintang nationalists fled to Taiwan...). Chinese had no foothold on the previously nearly inaccessible Tibetan plateau so Mao sent entire 'PLA' armies there, equipped with modern foreign weaponry and gear. Besides all the massacres that followed — an estimated one million Tibetans were killed — the Chinese invaders looted and destroyed as much of Tibet's invaluable heritage as they could. While major monasteries (functioning as the key places of religion and learning in the Buddhist society) were looted, ransacked, defaced and partially destroyed, in total almost all of the country's 3,000 places of worship were simply destroyed; some were used for... artillery target practice.
The more accessible East Turkestan (ch: '#xinjiang') was targeted for settler #colonialism by establishing a new paramilitary settler corps, #Bingtuan. Those (ex-)soldiers were not only provided with Han Chinese brides but they were allowed to keep their AK-47s... You can guess what happened to the Uyghur homeland next. (links to background in the post below)
Actualité de l'Association Généalogique du Hainaut Belge (AGHB) :
Ce 20 septembre dernier, le cimetière militaire de Saint-Symphorien (Ville de #Mons), a été reconnu comme patrimoine mondial par l’#UNESCO. Il figure parmi 139 sites funéraires #WWI répartis le long du front occidental du conflit, en #Belgique et #France, où les forces allemandes et alliées se sont affrontées de 1914 à 1918.
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested after a beloved tree was cut down in a UNESCO World Heritage site in Northumberland, England. The Sycamore Gap tree, which stood in a picturesque landscape featured in post cards and films, was believed to be 200 years old. Rangers for the site say they will attempt to regrow the tree from the stump or graft a new one using its remains, but say the plant will not likely be the same.
so much of our common #CulturalHeritage is under threat. And too often, it depends on the initiative of courageous individuals to save #traditions and keep heritage alive...
Saving over 1000 #music tapes from #Afghanistan before the Taliban (and others) butchered a modern society, is no easy task, but Mohammed Hasan Zamri in Pakistan tried to do just that.
One of the UK’s most photographed trees has been “deliberately felled” in an apparent act of vandalism.
A 16 year old teenager has been arrested for allegedly cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree next to the historic UNESCO World Heritage site Hadrian’s Wall, built 1,900 years ago to guard the furthest northwestern frontier of the Roman Empire.
Als ich vor Jahren bei einer Radtour in #Remscheid#Lennep am Röntgen-Museum vorbeikam, war ich ganz überrascht und habe erst da kapiert, dass Herr #Röntgen hier geboren wurde.
Jetzt sind einige seiner historische Röntgenbilder aus dem #Museum von der #Unesco auf die Vorschlagsliste für das #Weltdokumentenerbe gesetzt worden. Darunter die ersten, fast 130 Jahre alten Röntgenbilder von Händen.
Everyone who claims "it was #aliens" in reference to those who built such sites wherever they exist on #Earth is an ignorant #racist.
It was #humans; it's only ever been humans and humans alone.
"Nearly 2,000 years ago, #NativeAmericans built 800,000-square-foot geometric shapes...an enormous circle and square aligning with the movements of the sun and the moon."
Day 15 of the #A12 blockade is bringing attention to the Wadden Sea.
A #UNESCO World Heritage site, where numerous bird species depend on the exposure of the seabed during low tides to obtain their staple foods. It is extremely vulnerable to the effects of #climatechange. (1/3)
Die Welterbe-Kommission der Vereinten Nationen ermahnte auf ihrer Sitzung im saudischen Riad Deutschland und die Niederlande, keine Probebohrungen und weitere Projekte voranzutreiben, die das Ziel haben, Gas, Öl oder Salz zu fördern und zu gewinnen. ☝️ 🚨
Zudem müssten bei der Anlage neuer Stromleitungen zu Offshore-Windparks Maßnahmen zum Schutz des Wattenmeers getroffen werden. ♻️ 💨
UNESCO mission visits Chernihiv to assess damage from Russian attacks (kyivindependent.com)
Representatives from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) are in Chernihiv on an official mission to assess the damage to the city's cultural heritage from Russian attacks. The damaged sites include the 12th-century Piatnytska Church, St. Anthony's Caves, and the Chernihiv Regional...