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One of United Nations' great achievements is the protection it seeks to afford to our common world heritage. The most visible manifestation of this achievement is the World Heritage List, which inscribes more than a thousand properties of outstanding universal value in 163 countries around the world.

Sadly, however, our common world heritage is increasingly under threat, as it falls victim to uncontrolled development, climate change, armed conflict and so forth. This is a shame, for not only does this destruction rob us collectively of our past, but it leaves future generations bereft of what in many cases are irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration.

While there are any number of websites and blogs documenting and describing world heritage sites, our aim in WH Dispatches is to bring together everything that interests us about the world's cultural heritage - news, photos, historical accounts, travel tips, etc - into a single portal that is hopefully of some interest to others as well.