Photo: Ebrahim Abdallah
Yemen government urges Unesco to add more sites to endangered heritage list…
Source: Yemen government urges Unesco to add more sites to endangered heritage list
Photo: Khaled Fazaa
In an urgent session on Wednesday, UNESCO named two sites from Lebanon and Yemen to its List of World Heritage in Danger, calling for their immediate preservation.
Source: UNESCO lists two locations in Lebanon, Yemen as heritage sites in danger
Photo: The National
Yemen, Lebanon and Ukraine sites added to Unesco World Heritage in Danger list…
Source: Yemen, Lebanon and Ukraine sites added to Unesco World Heritage in Danger list
Photo: Kay Van Damme
Nature – Conservation biologist Kay Van Damme works with locals on the Socotra archipelago to help save ancient trees and colourful invertebrates.
Source: Treading carefully: saving frankincense trees in Yemen
Mud buildings are remarkably good at keeping us cool in summer and warm in winter, and withstanding extreme weather. Now architects are returning to this overlooked, age-old material.
Source: The sustainable cities made from mud
Photo: Davor Lovincic
Constructed using natural materials, Yemeni high-rises are superbly sustainable and perfectly suited to the hot and dry Arabian desert climate.
Photo: Jean-Jacques Gelbart
Source: Promovouir l’emploi local grâce à la conservation du patrimoine dans les villes historiques (Yémen)
Photo: Frontier Post
Socotra Island has been variously described as ‘The Galapagos of the Middle East’ and ‘The Jewel of Arabia.’ This Yemeni UNESCO World Heritage Site is the largest of four islands in the Socotra Archipelago, situated east of the Horn of Africa in the Arabian Sea. The unspoiled, alien-like landscape of the island has intrigued travelers and scientists alike for decades.
Source: A trip to Yemen’s Socotra Island – The Frontier Post
Some of the first big buildings to be constructed in the Yemeni city of Shibam were built around 900.
Source: An ancient city is on the brink of collapse due to the weather
Ancient city of Shibam, a World Heritage Site, was largely spared by war but remains at the mercy of natural disasters.
Source: In Pictures: Yemen’s ‘Manhattan of the Desert’ risks collapse
Socotra is a Unesco-protected naturalist’s paradise that won over travel guide founder Hilary Bradt the instant she touched down.
Source: How guidebook writer Hilary Bradt fell in love with the remote island of Socotra
Local authorities in Yemen’s southeastern province of Hadramout have announced the start of a program to renovate dozens of decaying houses in thehistoric city of Shibam, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1982.
Source: Yemen’s Historic UNESCO-Listed City of Shibam to Go Renovation | Al Bawaba
The distinctive brown and white residential towers of the Old City in Sanaa, Yemen, date back centuries. Amid heavy rains, floods, war and economic collapse, more than a hundred have recently seen their roofs partially collapse.
Source: UNESCO project aims to save Sanaa’s historic mud brick towers
Residents call on Unesco to help preserve Yemeni city’s famous mud buildings, many dating from before the 11th century…
Source: Historic houses in Sanaa’s Old City on brink of collapse after heavy rains
Recurring floods caused annually due to torrential rains threaten to finish off the destruction of UNESCO listed world heritage sites and distinctive buildings in the Yemeni capital Sanaa with their ochre brick facades and white latticework windows, experts say. Conservation efforts are already bogged down by the conflict between the Houthis and Saudi led coalition backed government and natural causes are only expediting damage that has been done by years of civil war.
Downpour damages distinctive brown and white mud brick homes in capital…
Source: Unesco-listed Old Sana’a houses collapse as heavy rains hit Yemen
Source: UNESCO Mobilizes Funds and Expertise to Safeguard Yemen’s Cultural Heritage
In earlier days people used to live in mud houses. Although those houses were of one storey, you would be surprised to know that there is a city where there are more than 500 skyscrapers made from mud. These buildings are nothing short of miracles because neither rain nor storms have any effect on them.
Source: Ancient city that hosts 500 years old mud skyscrapers – OrissaPOST
Remote and isolated, the Socotra archipelago is often described as the “most alien-looking place on Earth.” The islands, part of Yemen, are scattered in the Arabian Sea, with Socotra, the largest island, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But while once a discerning destination for hardcore adventure tourists, visitor numbers have dwindled since the outbreak of the Yemeni civil war in 2015. Browse this gallery and get an idea of what this unworldly island looks like.
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