As part of the analysis of the practice of preserving World Heritage sites, Yellowstone National Park was chosen as the object of research, including since this specially protected area was on the List of World Heritage under Threat for a certain period of time, and was subsequently excluded from this list. The subject of the study is the practice of legal protection of these World Heritage sites by the mechanisms of the Convention on the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. Using the original texts of documents and scientific literature in a foreign language, the author examines the main problems that threatened the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park and the role of the positions of the World Heritage Committee in its protection. The evolution of the Committee’s approaches to the implementation of extractive industry projects at World Heritage sites and in the territories adjacent to them is particularly noted. The role of international professional associations in the formation of such a position (the International Council for Mining and Metals, the International Association of Hydroenegretics) is emphasized, as well as the possibility and necessity of applying these positions to protect the ecosystem of Lake Baikal.

Convention on the Preservation of the World Heritage, environmental legislation, nature protection, foreign environmental experience.

Ditsevich Yaroslava Borisovna – Associate Professor of the Department of Prosecutorial Supervision and Participation of the Prosecutor in Civil and Arbitration Cases, Candidate of Law, Associate Professor, Irkutsk Law Institute (branch) University of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation (1, Shevtsova st., Irkutsk, 664035, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0000-0002-4004-8581, e-mail: yaroslavadi@mail.ru

Ditsevich Ya.B. Zarubezhnyj opyt sohraneniya ob"ektov vsemirnogo naslediya (na primere Jelloustounskogo nacional'nogo parka) [Foreign experience in the preservation of world heritage sites (using the example of Yellowstone national park)] Sibirskij yuridicheskij vestnik [Siberian Law Herald]. 2022, no 3(98), pp. 85–89. DOI 10.26516/2071-8136.2022.3.85. (in Russian).

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