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Ref : CL/WHC.3/02
11 MAR 2002
Circular letter to all States Parties to the Convention and Advisory Bodies
Subject: CD Rom on the occasion of the International Year on Mountains
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please find enclosed a copy of a CD-Rom produced on the occasion of the International Year
of Mountains (2002) as a joint effort of the World Heritage Centre (WHC), the Division of the
Ecological Sciences with its Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme, the Division of Water
Sciences with its International Hydrological Programme (IHP) and the Division of the Earth Sciences
with its International Geological Correlation Programme (IGCP).
This CD-Rom displays World Heritage sites and Biosphere Reserves in Mountain areas of the
world and was produced in collaboration with UNEP-WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring
Centre, Cambridge (United Kingdom)).
I would appreciate it if you could transmit this CD-ROM to your national agency responsible
for World Heritage. Please note that the information is also available on the following web-page
http://valhalla.unep-wcmc.org/unesco/index.htm. You may wish to share this information with all
relevant agencies and site managers, in particular those planning events on the International Year on
Mountains and especially if those are linked to the International Year on Cultural Heritage and the
International Year on Ecotourism.
I would like to thank you very much for your cooperation in the implementation of the World
Heritage Convention.
Yours sincerely,
Francesco Bandarin
Director
UNESCO World Her