World Heritage Site : In News
The Supreme Court recently dismissed an application seeking to declare the city of Agra as a “World Heritage Site.”
- World Heritage Sites are cultural and/or natural sites with legal protection inscribed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List.
- These sites are designated by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, scientific, or other forms of significance.
- The sites are designated as having “outstanding universal value” under the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (World Heritage Convention).
- This document was adopted by UNESCO in 1972 and formally took effect in 1975 after having been ratified by 20 countries.
- It provides a framework for international cooperation in preserving and protecting cultural treasures and natural areas throughout the world.
- There are three types of sites: cultural, natural and mixed.
- Cultural heritage sites include hundreds of historic buildings and town sites, important archaeological sites and works of monumental sculpture or painting.
- Natural heritage sites are restricted to those natural areas that
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