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• - A non-profit organization aiming to safeguard the historic, artistic, and natural heritage of the Sassi area of Matera, Italy.
  
• - Focuses on the physical, social, cultural and economic revitalisation of communities in the Muslim world.
  
• - Elegant site from UNESCO explaining the choice of certain buildings and sites as World Heritage. List with pictures and information available on each. French and English language options.
  
• - A non-governmental organization of professionals dedicated to the conservation of the world's historic monuments and sites. General Assembly, news, national committees, scientific committees. English and French versions.
  
• - A UK-based non-profit charitable company that pursues and supports various charitable activities related to historical towns in Africa.
  
• - Aims to advance the application of technology to the conservation of the built environment. Conference, bulletin, membership, local chapters, scholarships.
  
• - Opposition to the building of a gold plant in Olympias.
  
• - Organized, funded and supervised the protection and restoration of the ancient secular buildings on the Lhasa Barkor, many originally scheduled for demolition.
  
• - Created by UNESCO to promote conservation of monuments and sites of historical, artistic and archaeological interest. Headquarters in Rome. Activities, events calendar, image archive, training directory. English and French versions
  
• - Neighborhood group aiming to preserve the "Garden City" districts of São Paulo, Brazil, designed by British architects Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin in the 1920s. Site in Portuguese and English.
  
• - A non-profit, non-political organization dedicated to excavating, consolidating and restoring cultural properties in Turkey and elsewhere. Includes details of projects.
  
• - Private, nonprofit organization for preserving art and architecture, based in New York. Photographs and descriptions of 100 most endangered sites. Projects, Jewish Heritage, trips, publications.
  
• - A non-profit organization promoting the conservation of historic architecture and sites. Hands-on preservation workshops are held at sites around the world.
  
• - PROMO aims to preserve, conserve and maintain historical buildings in Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles). Includes photo gallery of buildings.
  
• - Aims to restore cultural property in those areas ravaged by conflicts, catastrophes or endangered in other ways. News, activities, appeal for support.
  
• - Email based group discussions; announcements.
  
• - Concerned with conserving the best of Ireland's heritage, both built and natural. Policy, environmental programs, National Spring Clean, planning, events.
  
• - Restores, maintains and raises public awareness of the World Heritage Sites inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List of Natural and Cultural significance. Mission, projects and partners.
  
• - Part of the Aga Khan Trust Culture which focuses on the physical, social, cultural and economic revitalisation of communities in the Muslim world.