Cultural heritage sites are being damaged and destroyed at an alarming rate around the world, perhaps nowhere as quickly as in the developing world where many of the most significant sites are located but where the financial resources and skilled personnel needed to preserve these sites are often most lacking. 

To address this crisis, GHF has established Global Heritage Network (GHN), the purpose of which is to raise awareness of, facilitate debate on and collaboratively seek solutions to the increasing threats facing cultural heritage sites in developing countries before it is too late by connecting concerned citizens as well as experts and academics working in cultural heritage site conservation with each other in a dynamic, interactive and content-rich environment and to which GHN members can easily contribute their own data and experiences.

GHN thus aims to:

  * Act as an early warning and monitoring system for threatened sites
  * Seek solutions to those threats collaboratively
  * Facilitate the implementation of solutions to mitigate the threats
  * Report and monitor results of the solutions implemented

To achieve this, GHN brings together both experts in the field of heritage preservation and the general public to save endangered cultural heritage sites in the developing world by identifying the threats these sites face and finding solutions to mitigate those threats.