World Heritage

Elabana Falls is in Lamington National Park, part of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves World Heritage site in Queensland, Australia.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain range, lake, desert, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated for the international World Heritage Programme administered by UNESCO.

The programme aims to catalogue, name, and preserve sites of outstanding importance, either cultural or natural, to the common heritage of humankind (exact criteria). Listed sites can obtain funds from the World Heritage Fund under certain conditions. The programme was founded with the Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage that was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972.

As of 2005, a total of 812 sites have been included in the list (628 cultural, 160 natural and 24 mixed properties in 137 States Parties).

List of World Heritage Sites

• List of World Heritage Sites in Africa
• List of World Heritage Sites in Asia and Australasia
• List of World Heritage Sites in Europe
• List of World Heritage Sites in the Americas
• List of World Heritage Sites in danger

See also

• List of conservation topics

External links

• UNESCO World Heritage Sites - Official site
• List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites - Official site
• World Heritage Site - World Heritage Details site
• WHTour - The World Heritage List in panographies and virtual tours
• VRheritage.org - documentation of World Heritage Sites
• Worldheritage-Forum - Weblog and Information on World Heritage Issues
• Croatia World Heritage - World Heritage in Croatia - UNESCO's sites
• UNESCO World Heritage List - complete list with links and map of all sites
• Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage at Law-Ref.org - fully indexed and crosslinked with other documents