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Plans have been submitted for 17-turbine wind farm close to Flow Country World Heritage Site

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The Flow Country, straddling 200,000 hectares of the Highlands, was awarded world heritage status last month after decades of campaigning

Plans to test anti-personnel bombs on world heritage site dropped

Verbier and the Val de Bagnes in the summer. Credit: Lucia Harrison/Verbier Tourisme

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King Charles visits the Forsinard Flows Visitor Centre in Forsinard, after the Flow Country was granted World Heritage Site status (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

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King Charles III unveils the Flow Country World Heritage Site plaque

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A virtual train crossing a virtual Forth Bridge.

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Ceilidh dancing will be among the Scottish traditions set to be officially recognised.

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Famous poets like Robert Burns have offered Scots a worldwide legacy with his works like 'Auld Lang Syne' which means 'Old Long Since' in the Scots tongue.

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The curious rock formation, often known as just “the Praying Hands”, is nestled in the heart of one of Scotland’s most beautiful glens. (Photo: spodzone via Flickr)

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Work has now started chainsawing the felled tree into sections for its removal (Photo: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)

Beloved Sycamore Gap tree to be cut up and removed from site

The Gaya Tumuli burial site in Korea.

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St Mark's square in Venice earlier this month.

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A man stands near a stretch of the Badaling Great Wall of China on the outskirts of Beijing. Authorities in China arrested the two men for smashing a path through a section of the ancient wall, a cultural icon and United Nations protected heritage site. Picture: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan

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The Isle of Man (sometimes referred to as just “Mann”) is a self-governing British Crown Dependency located in the Irish Sea.

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Welsh is the only Celtic language which is not considered endangered by UNESCO, even if it doesn’t have the highest number of speakers.

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The gold aureus celebrating the conquest in AD 43 was uncovered among the ruins of a suburb five kilometres north of the archaeological site in southern Italy’s Campania region.

Roman coin plucked from ashes of Pompeii sells for thousands

Bog cotton grows on the vast blanket bog during certain times of the year making parts of it turn white

A closer look at Scotland's vast and ancient peatland tipped for UNESCO status

The Old Scatness Iron Age Village, part of the Zenith of Iron Age Shetland, a collection of three ancient settlements dating back thousands of years, which has received Government backing to win Unesco World Heritage status. Picture: DCMS/PA Wire

Iron age settlement among seven UK sites given Unesco status backing

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Developed by the Tweed Forum environmental charity, the Eddleston Water project in the Scottish Borders has been chosen as a Unesco Ecohydrology Demonstration Site – the only one in the UK

Unesco designation for Scottish Borders river project

The campaign to secure World Heritage Site status for Scotland’s Flow Country has entered a new phase with the formal submission of the formal nomination dossier to UNESCO.

Flow Country World Heritage bid enters new phase

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A view across the city of Edinburgh from Calton Hill at dusk, as Edinburgh is to host the Unesco Cities of Literature network conference in 2024, marking 20 years since it became the first city to be given the designation. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Edinburgh to host major Unesco literature conference

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The Unesco headquarters in Paris has transformed its grounds into productive gardens with herbs, vegetables and fruit trees

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Old buildings in the town of Paraty, gateway to the Atlantic Forest, eastern Brazil. Pic: PA Photo/Alamy.

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Stormy weather by Annie Broadley is a painting of oil and mixed media on board

Annie Broadley's Stormy Weather paints a picture of climate change

Statues are wrapped up around Lviv Town Hall. Volunteers are in the process of covering and wrapping statues and windows on many of the historically important buildings in the city. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Kyiv battles to protect cultural heritage as Putin strikes city

Kintail is an area of mountains in the Wester Ross biosphere. Picture: Liam Anderstrem

Scotland launches new national trail to showcase world-class sites

Edinburgh was named last year as a hotspot for overtourism in 2019. Picture: Ian Georgeson

Former culture chief blames heritage status for Edinburgh becoming ‘overwhelmed’

George Square Gardens has reopened as a festival venue for the summer.

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The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Hook Reef, in the Whitsunday region

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The annual event was created by UNESCO in 1995 (Photo: Shutterstock)

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Ironbridge Gorge was designated a UNESCO world heritage site in 1986. (Picture: Shutterstock)

You could buy a world heritage site bungalow for just £1 - but there's a catch

One of Playfair's plans for Edinburgh's Third New Town which was submitted in 1819.

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The Calanais standing stones are the jewel in the crown of Neolithic Lewis but the search is on to find out how prehistoric people lived their everyday lives on the islands. PIC: geograph.org/Doug Lee

Searching for traces of Prehistoric people in the peat of the Outer Hebrides

Susan Stewart is Director of The Open University in Scotland.

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'Edinburgh has been the Scottish capital since the 15th century. It has two distinct areas: the Old Town, dominated by a medieval fortress; and the neoclassical New Town, whose development from the 18th century onwards had a far-reaching influence on European urban planning. The harmonious juxtaposition of these two contrasting historic areas, each with many important buildings, is what gives the city its unique character,' according to the UNESCO website

Edinburgh World Heritage job worth up to £50,000 is available

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McDonald’s Happy Meals traditionally always include a toy, but in preparation for World Book Day 2020, the fast food chain will be adding book tokens to every Happy Meal (Photo: Shutterstock)

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World Book Day is an annual event which celebrates the uniting love of books around the world and sees people dress up as characters from their favourite reads (Photo: Shutterstock)

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Never has the world been in a more perilous state due to the long-term effects of greenhouse gases

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