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World Heritage Sites Go Dark for Earth Hour

April 06, 2012

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Many of the world’s major cultural heritage sites went dark last week to recognize Earth Hour, a worldwide event organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to raise awareness about climate change.

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Vandalism, Unsustainable Tourism Threaten the Great Wall of China

October 26, 2010

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During the last week of September, the Great Wall of China hosted the largest photography exhibition in Chinese history. Titled “Stay You”, the exhibition generated more than 10,000 submissions and urged participants to submit photographs that “showed themselves being themselves.” However, many of the winning submissions displayed a startling trend: tourists defiling large portions of the Great Wall.

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