UNESCO removes Oman oryx sanctuary from heritage list
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Oman&#39;s Arabian Oryx sanctuary this week  became the first site to be removed from UNESCO&#39;s World  Heritage list after the rare species dwindled and the  government cut the park size by 90 percent.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - The United Nations has banned a self-styled Serb 'volunteer guard' from entering Kosovo, trying to calm Albanian tempers as Serbs remember a medieval battle at the heart of their claim to the province.
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Five natural wonders of the world are nominated for inclusion on the UN World Heritage List.
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A SENIOR Japanese official has dismissed Australia&#39;s Southern Ocean whale sanctuary as legally baseless and insisted that his country will continue taking minke whales in the area.
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Plans for a new walkway to Jerusalem's holiest site are scrapped amid archaeological concerns, Israeli officials say.
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The International Council of Museums published a &quot;black list&quot; of archaeological treasures illegally smuggled out of Afghanistan, in a bid to stifle trade in the stolen antiquities.
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Blog: The World Monuments Fund issues a list of the 100 most endangered cultural sites in world.
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A controversial monument commemorating Estonians who fought in the German army against Soviet troops during World War II was removed Thursday, after the government said it damaged the Baltic state's image.
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JAKARTA/BANGKOK (DPA): Thailand, under growing pressure to repatriate some 100 orangutans allegedly smuggled into the country from Indonesia, plans to shift the apes from a private zoo to a safe centre, probably in Chiang Mai, a minister said on Thursday.
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Tourists may be banned from climbing Australia's most famous natural landmark, as part of protest over government crackdown in indigenous communities.
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A historic cinema building facing demolition in the Pakistani city of Peshawar is given protected status.
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The world&#39;s &#39;flagship species&#39; on land and sea, whales and elephants, won a reprieve on Tuesday from commercial exploitation at a major conservation conference in Thailand&#39;s capital.
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More than four years after Saddam Hussein's ouster, the Security Council voted Friday to shut down the U.N. inspection bodies that helped uncover his illegal weapons programs but were then banned from Iraq by the United States.
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More than 6,000 species of butterflies and other insects, as well as mites, fungi and assorted unloved but important species, will also be wiped out when listed endangered species go extinct, scientists said on Thursday.
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By Brian Sargent, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 3--An Oklahoma expert on bald eagles said Friday it would be a good decision to remove the bird from the federal government's list of endangered species.   ------   A federal judge ordered last year the U.S.
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The Galapagos Islands may have to be listed as "in danger" because tourism is threatening the environment that helped shape Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the chairman of Unesco's World Heritage Committee warned yesterday.
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An erotic painting featuring verses from the Koran is removed from a museum after Muslims protest.