State-level funding for the arts, humanities, heritage, and allied forms of culture is an important source of financial support, dwarfing the aid provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Half the world's surviving mountain gorillas live in the huge Virunga world heritage site which has been designated by the Unesco as being of "importance to the common heritage of humanity".
"The world heritage committee should step up to ensure that this unique and threatened part of humanity's world heritage is not lost forever".
"I think it's humanity's heritage," said Beth L. O'Leary, a professor of anthropology at New Mexico State University.
"If we welcome them as a part of nature and humanity's heritage, they will come back".
Yet there's one moment in the film that gets past attitude to make a discovery: in a pair of matched shots, Reitman shows similar mottling and freckling on Mavis's and Matt's backs, as if suggesting that the wild-life artist and the local man share an essential, common humanity and heritage and, indeed, the way of all flesh.
Based on media coverage of government funding for culture – most memorably, the controversy over the National Endowment for the Arts in the early 1990s – one might imagine that all public money for arts, humanities, and heritage come from the federal government.
In response to these DNA property grabs, UNESCO, drawing upon international law precedents addressing analogous grabs in the past, declared the Human Genome the heritage of humanity.
The Venus de Milo and the Parthenon are part of humanity's artistic heritage.
Her language was of great antiquity and contributed to our understanding of humanity's linguistic heritage.
