World Heritage Committee

The objective of the World Heritage Committee is the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage sites. This international agreement, signed to date by more than 145 States Parties, was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO in 1972. Its primary mission is to define and conserve the world's heritage, by drawing up a list of sites whose outstanding values should be preserved for all humanity and to ensure their protection through a closer co-operation among nations.

The World Heritage Committee inscribed 506 properties consisting of 380 cultural, 107 natural and 19 mixed properties in 107 States Parties.

NPS World Heritage in the United States
UNESCO Sites In UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

• 1978 Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
• 1978 Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming/Idaho/Montana
• 1979 Everglades National Park, Florida
• 1979 Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
• 1979 Independence Hall, Pennsylvania
• 1980 Redwood National Park, California
• 1981 Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky
• 1981 Olympic National Park, Washington State
• 1982 Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Illinois
• 1983 Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina/Tennessee
• 1983 San Juan National Historic Site and La Fortaleza, Puerto Rico
• 1984 The Statue of Liberty, New York
• 1984 Yosemite National Park, California
• 1987 Monticello, and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
• 1987 Chaco Culture National Historic Park, New Mexico
• 1987 Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, including Mauna Loa, Hawaii
• 1992 Pueblo de Taos
• 1995 Carlsbad Caverns National Park

World Conservation Monitoring Center
The WCMC provides information services on conservation and sustainable use of the world's living resources, and helps others to develop information systems of their own.
WCMC Site information

ICOMOS  International Council on Monuments and Sites

An international organization of professionals dedicated to the conservation of the world's historic monuments and sites.