World Heritage Site

For example, World Heritage Sites might be ancient ruins or historical structures, buildings, cities,[a] deserts, forests, islands, lakes, monuments, mountains or wilderness areas.[4][5] A World Heritage Site may signify a remarkable accomplishment of humankind and serve as evidence of humanity's intellectual history on the planet, or it might be a place of great natural beauty.[7] The sites are intended for practical conservation for posterity, which otherwise would be subject to risk from human or animal trespassing, unmonitored, uncontrolled or unrestricted access, or threat from local administrative negligence.In 1959, the governments of Egypt and Sudan requested the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to assist them to protect and rescue the endangered monuments and sites.[15] The project's success led to other safeguarding campaigns, such as saving Venice and its lagoon in Italy, the ruins of Mohenjo-daro in Pakistan, and the Borobodur Temple Compounds in Indonesia.[17] UNESCO reckons the restorations of the following four sites among its success stories: Angkor in Cambodia, the Old City of Dubrovnik in Croatia, the Wieliczka Salt Mine near Kraków in Poland, and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania.[20] A request for a minor boundary change, one that does not have a significant impact on the extent of the property or affect its "outstanding universal value", is also evaluated by the advisory bodies before being sent to the committee.[20] Only three sites have ever been delisted: the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary in Oman, the Dresden Elbe Valley in Germany, and the Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City in the United Kingdom.[citation needed] The Arabian Oryx Sanctuary was directly delisted in 2007, instead of first being put on the danger list, after the Omani government decided to reduce the protected area's size by 90%.The Australian government's actions, involving considerable expense for lobbying and visits for diplomats, were in response to their concern about the negative impact that an "at risk" label could have on tourism revenue at a previously designated UNESCO World Heritage Site.[38][39] In 2021, international scientists recommended UNESCO to put the Great Barrier Reef on the endangered list,[40] as global climate change had caused a further negative state of the corals and water quality.[41] Again, the Australian government campaigned against this, and in July 2021, the World Heritage Committee, made up of diplomatic representatives of 21 countries, ignored UNESCO's assessment, based on studies of scientists, "that the reef was clearly in danger from climate change and so should be placed on the list.""[42] Several listed locations, such as Casco Viejo in Panama and Hội An in Vietnam, have struggled to strike a balance between the economic benefits of catering to greatly increased visitor numbers after the recognition and preserving the original culture and local communities.A major chunk of all world heritage inscriptions are located in regions whose populations generally have lighter skin, including Europe, East Asia, and North America.
UNESCO World Heritage plaque at Þingvellir in Iceland
UNESCO World Heritage plaque at Takht-e Soleymān in Iran
The graph represents the amount of UNESCO sites inscribed on the World Heritage List each year for each continent. You can see that in 2000 there was a general increase in the enrollments in the list of UNESCO sites
A graph representing the number of UNESCO sites inscribed on the World Heritage List each year for each continent [ 7 ] [ 12 ]
UNESCO World Heritage plaque at Doñana National Park in Andalucía , Spain
Site No. 252: The Taj Mahal, an example of a World Heritage Site
Site No. 252: Taj Mahal in India , an example of a cultural heritage site
Site No. 156: Serengeti National Park in Tanzania , a natural heritage site
Site No. 685: Doñana National Park in Spain , where many Iberian lynxes live
Site No. 274: Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu in Peru, an example of a mixed (natural and cultural) heritage site
Site No. 1, the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America , had its boundaries extended in 2001 and 2003, and was included on the danger list from 2007 to 2010.
UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Galápagos IslandsUNESCOinternational treatyWorld Heritage Committee168 countriesGermanyWorld Heritage Sites listUnited Nations General AssemblyConvention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural HeritageÞingvellirIcelandTakht-e SoleymānAswan High Daminundateancient EgyptUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural OrganizationInternational Campaign to Save the Monuments of NubiaAbu SimbelPhilaeTemple of DendurMetropolitan Museum of ArtNew York CityTemple of DebodParque del OesteMadridTemple of TaffehRijksmuseum van OudhedenLeidenTemple of EllesyiaMuseo EgizioDoñana National ParkAndalucíaVeniceits lagoonMohenjo-daroBorobodurInternational Council on Monuments and SitesWorld Heritage Conventioninternational agreementWhite HouseInternational Union for Conservation of NatureUnited Nations Conference on the Human Environmentdata reportingUN member statesHoly SeeState of Palestinestates in free associationNew ZealandCook IslandsLiechtensteinAngkorDubrovnikWieliczka Salt MineNgorongoro Conservation AreaWorld Conservation UnionTaj MahalSerengeti National ParkTanzaniaIberian lynxesHistoric Sanctuary of Machu PicchuList of World Heritage in DangerFormer UNESCO World Heritage SitesPacific OceanSouth AmericadelistedArabian Oryx SanctuaryDresden Elbe ValleyLiverpool Maritime Mercantile CityWaldschlösschen BridgeLiverpoolLiverpool WatersBramley-Moore Dock StadiumUnited Nations peacekeepingBlue Shield InternationalKarl von Habsburglobbying industryEritreaAsmaraGreat Barrier Reefdiplomatsclimate changeCasco ViejoPanamaHội AnVietnameconomic benefitsvisitor centresRock artTadrart AcacusracismcolourismList of World Heritage Sites by year of inscriptionCaucasusGough IslandAfricaArab statesPacificNorth AmericaCaribbeanWorld Heritage Sites by countryGoUNESCOIndex of conservation articlesLists of World Heritage SitesMemory of the World ProgrammeUNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage ListsRamsar ConventionKrakówUvs Nuur BasinLandscapes of DauriaThe Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern MovementJohn Marshall Review of Intellectual Property LawConservation BiologyBibcodeThe ConversationThe GuardianNature CommunicationsApollo – The International Art MagazineThe Huffington PostKronen ZeitungThe IndependentThe EconomistThe Sydney Morning HeraldSpringer Nature Switzerland AGGoogle EarthNASA Worldwindsustainable tourismGoogle Arts & CultureCentral AmericaEasternNorthern and CentralSoutheastSouthernWesternNorthernOceaniaWorld Heritage in DangerFormer sitesBy countryBy year of inscription