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World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites are vulnerable to the effects of uncontrolled urban development, unsustainable tourism practices, neglect, natural calamities, pollution, political instability, and conflict.
The 1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage recognizes that certain places on Earth are of "outstanding universal value" and should form part of the common heritage of humankind.
UNESCO World Heritage plaque at Þingvellir in Iceland UNESCO World Heritage plaque at Takht-e Soleymān in Iran A graph representing the number of UNESCO sites inscribed on the World Heritage List each year for each continent. In 1954, the government of Egypt decided to build the new Aswan High Dam, whose resulting future reservoir would eventually inundate a large stretch of the Nile valley ...
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Explore the diverse and unique places that UNESCO has recognized as of outstanding universal value to humanity. Learn about the criteria and processes of inscription, protection and promotion of the World Heritage sites and other UNESCO lists and designations.
World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites are vulnerable to the effects of uncontrolled urban development, unsustainable tourism practices, neglect, natural calamities, pollution, political instability, and conflict.
Complete List. This is the complete and up-to-date World Heritage List.
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The Singapore Botanic Gardens (the Gardens) was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 4th July 2015, at the 39th session of the World Heritage Committee (WHC) in Bonn, Germany.
3 days ago · World Heritage site, any of various areas or objects inscribed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World Heritage List. The sites are designated as having “outstanding universal value” under the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. This document was adopted by UNESCO in 1972 and formally took effect in 1975 ...
