Unesco World Heritage

World heritage site is a landmark or area with legal protection by an international convention administered by the united nations educational scientific and cultural organization unesco world heritage sites are designated by unesco for having cultural historical scientific or other form of significance.

Unesco world heritage. The program aims to catalogue and preserve sites of outstanding importance either cultural or natural to the common heritage of humankind. In 1979 the committee decided to inscribe the ohrid lake on the world heritage list under natural criteria iii. The westland and mount cook national park and the fiordland national park which were previously inscribed on the world heritage list are part of the te wahipounamu south west new zealand. Heritage is our legacy from the past what we live with today and what we pass on to future generations.

The sites are judged to contain cultural and natural heritage around the world. In november 1972 unesco adopted the convention concerning the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage in the general conference during its seventeenth session. A unesco world heritage site is a site that has been nominated for the united nations educational scientific and cultural organization s international world heritage program. Unesco world heritage refers to sites registered on the world heritage list.

Under the convention the world heritage committee established a world heritage list that. What makes the concept of world heritage exceptional is its universal application. Logo of the unesco world heritage committee this is a list of the lists of world heritage sites.