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UNESCO and Google Demonstrate How Climate Change Threatens Five Heritage Sites

by Sarah Rose Sharp February 17, 2020February 14, 2020

Heritage on the Edge, a collaboration between Google and UNESCO, highlights the ways that climate change threatens five existing heritage sites, including Rapa Nui, Easter Island, and Edinburgh.

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Easter Islanders Are Visiting British Museum to Request Repatriation of Ancestral Heritage

by Jasmine Weber November 16, 2018

“For us [the statue] is a brother; but for them it is a souvenir or an attraction,” said a member of the Easter Island development commission, Anakena Manutomatoma.

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Easter Islanders Ask British Museum to Return Sacred Statue, Offering Replica in Return

by Sarah Rose Sharp October 23, 2018

The Rapa Nui community has offered a basalt replica of the eight-foot, four-ton sculpture called Hoa Hakananai’a, which was stolen in 1868.

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