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Stop LNG Terminals at World Heritage Sites!<\/h4><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

An upcoming global campaign with our network partners<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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We intervene at UNESCO<\/h4><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We lobby UNESCO for better protection of World Heritage sites<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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St. Catherine Monastery Area<\/h4><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A Sacred Landscape Disfigured by a Megatourism Project<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Old Town of Goslar<\/h4><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A World Heritage in Emergency Needs Your Help and Support<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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<\/i><\/i><\/span>Reverse the Expropriation of St. Catherine\u2019s Monastery
Stop Tourist Megaprojects on Mount Sinai<\/span><\/span><\/div>
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Press release

Berlin, June 2, 2025

World Heritage Watch deplores the decision of an Egyptian court to expropriate St. Catherine’s Monastery on the Sinai Peninsula with all its agricultural land, and even to deny it
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