Legal Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments against Environmental Pollution

At present the environmental pollution at the earth has reached alarming border. The environmental pollution, as a technical term, means the presence of undesirable substances in the Environment. Apart from the effects of pollutions on animals and plants, they leave effects on objects and buildings including historical and cultural monuments. Given that the majority of historical and cultural monuments have been built in stone or they are stone monuments, available pollutants through making corrosion historical and cultural monuments, rubbing and deforming them cause damages. In recent decades, historical and cultural monuments have faced various pollutions from oil and chemical pollution to air pollution through dust particles and pulverizing material. So far, numerous attempts have been conducted to deal with environmental pollution at regional and international level coming to approving hundreds of conventions and protocols on international and regional level in this case. Fortunately, modern man realized the importance of historical and cultural monuments, but he has not taken an important step on to protect the common heritage of mankind. The current paper, through investigating fundamentals of the international environmental laws as well as treats associated to the available historical and cultural monuments, is to introduce suggestions on protecting such heritage at the domain of international laws.