What does World Heritage mean?
When you call a certain place a ‘World Heritage Site’ it means it is included on the World Heritage List.
This list is a special list that contains a range of many amazing sites from all over the world. These sites can be a forest, a mountain range, a lake, a desert, a building, or city.
The purpose of the World Heritage List is to preserve places and objects of historical and cultural value to the entire world.
To be included on the World Heritage List, sites must be of outstanding universal value and meet at least one out of ten selection criteria. There are over 900 sites currently on the list.
Some examples of sites on the World Heritage List are:
• The Great Barrier Reef (Australia)
• The Great Wall of China (China)
• The Opera House, Sydney (Australia)
• The Colusseum, Rome (Italy)
• Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta (Canada)
This list is a special list that contains a range of many amazing sites from all over the world. These sites can be a forest, a mountain range, a lake, a desert, a building, or city.
The purpose of the World Heritage List is to preserve places and objects of historical and cultural value to the entire world.
To be included on the World Heritage List, sites must be of outstanding universal value and meet at least one out of ten selection criteria. There are over 900 sites currently on the list.
Some examples of sites on the World Heritage List are:
• The Great Barrier Reef (Australia)
• The Great Wall of China (China)
• The Opera House, Sydney (Australia)
• The Colusseum, Rome (Italy)
• Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta (Canada)