International:


Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage

Objectives:
To establish an effective system of collective protection of the cultural and natural heritage of outstanding universal value organized on a permanent basis and in accordance with modern scientific methods.

Summary of Provisions:

• Each State party recognizes that the duty of identification, protection, conservation and transmission to future generations of cultural and natural heritage belongs primary to that State.
  
• Two categories of sites are recognized: Cultural Heritage Sites and Natural Heritage Sites

Date of Adoption:
16.11.1972 (Paris)

Date of entry into force:
17.12.1975

Arab Participants:
Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen

Natural Heritage Sites in the Arab World:

- Tassili N'Ajjer (Algeria)
- The Oryx Reserve at Jidat Al Harassis (Oman)
- Ikhil National Park (Tunisia)