The World Heritage Committee has added 139 cemeteries and memorial sites along the former Western Front of World War I to the UNESCO World Heritage List. They consist of 16 sites in Wallonia, 27 in Flanders and 96 in France and pays tribute to all the victims of this conflict, from more than 130 modern-day nations. The sites are symbols of reconcil...

The Royal Highland Festival each October celebrates celebrate and protect Bhutan's highland cultures. It is held in Laya in the district of Gasa, one of Bhutan's most northern settlements 3,800m above sea level. The festival is held to celebrate, promote and preserve the way of life and culture of the Layap nomadic highland people. Located in the f...

​ Talayotic Menorca has been granted World Heritage Site status by UNESCO for its prehistoric culture and heritage on the island, with an exceptional number of monuments that demonstrate the different stages of prehistoric Menorca. The site is of particular importance given the impressive standard of the preservation of the monuments, thanks to con...

The Royal Eise-Eisinga Planetarium in Franeker has become a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Planetarium, the 12th UNESCO site in The Netherlands, is the oldest functioning planetarium in the world. Between 1774 and 1781, the Dutch amateur astronomer Eise Eisinga built a movable model of the solar system. To make it fit in his living room, Eisinga, ...

pioneering project to protect its endangered rhino populations. Led by the reserve's Wildlife Manager & Resident Ecologist, Lorraine Doyle and Wildlife Operations Co-Ordinator Mariana Venter, it is seeing the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) driven collars. This ground-breaking technology marks a significant step forward in the ongo...

Hart Shoreditch hotel has unveiled its London Design Festival programme for 2023. The hotel will stage a series of events with this year's theme Expect the unexpected. For the 2023 festival the hotel worked with East London based artist/illustrator James Daw who works in collage and mixed media by creating textures, scribbles and splodges that are ...