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The preservation of cultural heritage is a challenge that every government treats differently - different priorities, different budgets, different leading experts. The International National Trusts Organisation - now just nine years old - has set itself the task of promoting the conservation and enhancement of the cultural and natural heritage of all nations. INTO's President is Dame Fiona Reynolds - formerly head of the National Trust of England, Wales and Northern Ireland - and Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. She tells Fergus Nicoll that preserving the past is just as important as meeting the challenges of today, and describes the shock felt throughout the heritage world, at the destruction wreaked by Islamic State group in Palmyra.

(Photo: Ancient city of Palmyra in March 2016. Credit: Maher Al Mounes/AFP/Getty Images)