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State of Conservation

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Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve (2018)
States Parties: Honduras
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7A
Threats*: Financial resources Human resources Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community Illegal activities Invasive/alien terrestrial species Land conversion Legal framework Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals Management systems/ management plan Water infrastructure
Danger List:  Yes
Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus (2018)
States Parties: Libya
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Deliberate destruction of heritage Human resources Illegal activities War
Danger List:  Yes
Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara (2018)
States Parties: United Republic of Tanzania
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B
Threats*: Erosion and siltation/ deposition Illegal activities Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: Deterioration of the architectural heritage fabric
Rwenzori Mountains National Park (2018)
States Parties: Uganda
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B
Threats*: Fire (widlfires) Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Management systems/ management plan Mining Other climate change impacts
Sagarmatha National Park (2018)
States Parties: Nepal
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Air pollution Illegal activities Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Input of excess energy Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure Mining Other climate change impacts Quarrying Solid waste Subsistence wild plant collection
Salonga National Park (2018)
States Parties: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Civil unrest Illegal activities Indigenous hunting, gathering and collecting Management systems/ management plan Oil and gas War
Danger List:  Yes
Samarra Archaeological City (2018)
States Parties: Iraq
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7A
Threats*: Management systems/ management plan War
Danger List:  Yes
Sanganeb Marine National Park and Dungonab Bay – Mukkawar Island Marine National Park (2018)
States Parties: Sudan
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B
Threats*: Financial resources Management systems/ management plan
Sangiran Early Man Site (2018)
States Parties: Indonesia
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing Interpretative and visitation facilities Management systems/ management plan Society's valuing of heritage
Selous Game Reserve (2018)
States Parties: United Republic of Tanzania
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Financial resources Illegal activities Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Invasive/alien terrestrial species Management systems/ management plan Mining Oil and gas Water infrastructure
Other Threats: Significant decline of wildlife populations due to poaching
Danger List:  Yes
Serengeti National Park (2018)
States Parties: United Republic of Tanzania
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B
Threats*: Air transport infrastructure Drought Ground transport infrastructure Illegal activities Major linear utilities Water (extraction) Water infrastructure
Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor (2018)
States Parties: China Kyrgyzstan Kazakhstan
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Ground transport infrastructure Housing Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: Comparative fragility of many sites
Simien National Park (2018)
States Parties: Ethiopia
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B
Threats*: Crop production Financial resources Governance Human resources Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community Illegal activities Land conversion Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals Major linear utilities Management systems/ management plan Other climate change impacts
Other Threats: Declining populations of Walia ibex, Ethiopian wolf and other large mammal species; Human wildlife conflicts;
Site of Palmyra (2018)
States Parties: Syrian Arab Republic
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Effects arising from use of transportation infrastructure Ground transport infrastructure Housing Illegal activities Localised utilities Major linear utilities Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure Management systems/ management plan Relative humidity War
Other Threats: serious weathering of many stone blocks
Danger List:  Yes
Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining (2018)
States Parties: Japan
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B.Add2
Threats*: Ground transport infrastructure Human resources Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Interpretative and visitation facilities Management systems/ management plan Marine transport infrastructure
Socotra Archipelago (2018)
States Parties: Yemen
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B.Add2
Threats*: Civil unrest Fishing/collecting aquatic resources Governance Ground transport infrastructure Invasive / alien marine species Legal framework Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals Management systems/ management plan Solid waste
Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards (2018)
States Parties: Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia Montenegro Serbia
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Management activities Management systems/ management plan
Stone Town of Zanzibar (2018)
States Parties: United Republic of Tanzania
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B
Threats*: Commercial development Financial resources Housing Human resources Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Legal framework Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: Natural disasters and lack of risk-preparedness
Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites (2018)
States Parties: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Effects arising from use of transportation infrastructure Ground transport infrastructure Underground transport infrastructure
Sukur Cultural Landscape (2018)
States Parties: Nigeria
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B.Add2
Threats*: Civil unrest Illegal activities
Tasmanian Wilderness (2018)
States Parties: Australia
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B
Threats*: Forestry /wood production Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Management systems/ management plan Mining
Other Threats: Biosecurity
Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu (2018)
States Parties: China
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B
Threats*: Deliberate destruction of heritage Housing
The Ahwar of Southern Iraq: Refuge of Biodiversity and the Relict Landscape of the Mesopotamian Cities (2018)
States Parties: Iraq
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Legal framework Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: Highly unstable conservation conditions of the archaeological sites
The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement (2018)
States Parties: Argentina Belgium Switzerland Germany France India Japan
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B
Threats*: Management systems/ management plan
The Climats, terroirs of Burgundy (2018)
States Parties: France
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B
Threats*: Governance Legal framework Management systems/ management plan Quarrying
The Grand Canal (2018)
States Parties: China
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B.Add
The Persian Qanat (2018)
States Parties: Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B
Threats*: Management activities Management systems/ management plan
Timbuktu (2018)
States Parties: Mali
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7A
Threats*: Deliberate destruction of heritage Management systems/ management plan War
Danger List:  Yes
Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre of the Tiwanaku Culture (2018)
States Parties: Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B
Threats*: Governance Housing Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Legal framework Management systems/ management plan
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Afghanistan Albania Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Belize Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Bulgaria Cameroon Canada Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Costa Rica Côte d'Ivoire Croatia Czechia Democratic Republic of the Congo Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt Ethiopia France Georgia Germany Guinea Haiti Honduras India Indonesia Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iraq Italy Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Libya Lithuania Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia (Federated States of) Montenegro Mozambique Myanmar Nepal Niger Nigeria North Macedonia Oman Pakistan Panama Peru Philippines Poland Romania Russian Federation Saint Lucia Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa Spain Sri Lanka State of Palestine Sudan Suriname Switzerland Syrian Arab Republic Tunisia Türkiye Uganda Ukraine United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland United Republic of Tanzania United States of America Uzbekistan Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Viet Nam Yemen Zimbabwe
Threats
Management systems/ management plan 117 Housing 50 Illegal activities 39 Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation 36 Legal framework 31 Ground transport infrastructure 29 Land conversion 25 Management activities 24 War 23 Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure 22 Mining 21 Governance 18 Human resources 18 Financial resources 17 Water infrastructure 15 Interpretative and visitation facilities 14 Civil unrest 14 Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals 13 Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community 13 Oil and gas 10 Deliberate destruction of heritage 10 Commercial development 9 Invasive/alien terrestrial species 9 Effects arising from use of transportation infrastructure 8 Surface water pollution 8 Erosion and siltation/ deposition 8 Marine transport infrastructure 7 Underground transport infrastructure 7 Fishing/collecting aquatic resources 7 Water (rain/water table) 7 Solid waste 6 Forestry /wood production 6 Society's valuing of heritage 6 Air transport infrastructure 5 Major linear utilities 5 Renewable energy facilities 5 Fire (widlfires) 5 Localised utilities 4 Commercial hunting 4 Quarrying 4 Changes in traditional ways of life and knowledge system 4 Flooding 4 Other climate change impacts 4 Earthquake 4 Invasive / alien freshwater species 4 Industrial areas 3 Air pollution 3 Crop production 3 Water (extraction) 3 Storms 3 Wind 2 Ritual / spiritual / religious and associative uses 2 Drought 2 Invasive / alien marine species 2 High impact research / monitoring activities 2 Input of excess energy 1 Subsistence hunting 1 Subsistence wild plant collection 1 Pests 1 Relative humidity 1 Indigenous hunting, gathering and collecting 1 Changes to oceanic waters 1 Desertification 1 Translocated species 1

* : The threats indicated are listed in alphabetical order; their order does not constitute a classification according to the importance of their impact on the property.
Furthermore, they are presented irrespective of the type of threat faced by the property, i.e. with specific and proven imminent danger (“ascertained danger”) or with threats which could have deleterious effects on the property’s Outstanding Universal Value (“potential danger”).

** : All mission reports are not always available electronically.


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