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Unit Nine. Reading. Exercise Three.

UNESCO's World Heritage.

The organization.

Heritage refers to everything that we have inherited from our ancestors and everything that we will pass on to our descendants.

Sometimes heritage is natural, like the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

Sometimes it is man-made or cultural, like the Roman aqueduct in Segovia.

World Heritage belongs to everybody, and it is our duty to make sure that all cultural and natural heritage is identified, preserved, and protected.

In nineteen seventy-two, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, produced an international treaty called the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.

The mission.

UNESCO's World Heritage has a mission that includes some of these objectives:

• To ensure the protection of all natural and cultural heritage.
• To encourage countries to nominate sites to be included in the World Heritage list.
• To provide emergency aid for World Heritage sites in danger.
• To involve the local population in preserving their heritage.
• To encourage international cooperation on conservation projects.

UNESCO's World Heritage was formed from two separate movements.

The first focused on the preservation of cultural sites, and the second on the protection of the natural world.

Because the organization focuses on both, we are reminded of the ways that people interact with the natural world and how important it is to protect and preserve the balance between them.

The emblem.

The World Heritage emblem was designed by Belgian artist Michel Oliff in nineteen seventy-eight.

The square in the middle represents human skill and inspiration.

The circle represents the gifts of nature.

The circular shape of the emblem represents the world.

The list.

Today, the World Heritage list has eight hundred and seventy-eight items.

Six hundred and seventy-nine of them are cultural, one hundred and seventy-four are natural, and twenty-five are mixed.

If you want to find out which places are on the list, visit the website at http colon double slash WHC dot UNESCO dot org.