Protection

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The provision of legal restraints or controls on the destruction or damaging of buildings or artefacts, natural features, systems, sites, areas or other things of acknowledged value, with a view to their survival or preservation for the future.


Reference: Stirlingcharter

(This definition was noted at the IALA Seminar on the Practical Aspects of Lighthouse Preservation in Gothenburg 2005)