1.         Tasmanian Wilderness (Australia) (C/N 181quinquies)

Year of inscription on the World Heritage List  1982

Criteria  (iii)(iv)(vi)(vii)(viii)(ix)(x)

Year(s) of inscription on the List of World Heritage in Danger  N/A

Previous Committee Decisions  see page https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/181/documents/

International Assistance

Requests approved: 0
Total amount approved: USD 0
For details, see page https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/181/assistance/

UNESCO Extra-budgetary Funds

N/A

Previous monitoring missions

N/A

Factors affecting the property identified in previous reports

Potential construction of a dam

Illustrative material  see page https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/181/

Conservation issues presented to the World Heritage Committee in 1984

The Australian authorities, at the request of the Bureau at its eighth session (Note: for the Nomination of the site on the World Heritage List, see text below), submitted a brief commentary on the judgement of the High Court of Australia regarding Western Tasmanian National Parks.

 

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"The Committee is seriously concerned at the likely effect of dam construction in the area on those natural and cultural characteristics which make the property of outstanding universal value. In particular, it considers that flooding of parts of the river valleys would destroy a number of cultural and natural features of great significance, as identified in the ICOMOS and IUCN reports. The Committee therefore recommends that the Australian authorities take all possible measures to protect the integrity of the property. The Committee suggests that the Australian authorities should ask the Committee to place the pro-perty on the List of World Heritage in Danger until the question of dam construction is resolved."

 

Analysis and Conclusions of the World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies

The Committee took note of document SC/84/CONF.004/7.

The Committee agreed that the Tasmanian case gave an example of the strength of the Convention, particularly for States Parties having a similar system of Federal Government.

The Committee requested the Secretariat to distribute this document to all the other States Parties to the Convention (see Document SC.84/CONF.004/07). 

Decision Adopted: 8 COM XIII.39

39. The Committee took note of document SC-84/CONF.004/7 in which the Australian authorities, at the request of the Bureau at its eighth session, submitted a brief commentary on the judgment of the High Court of Australia regarding Western Tasmanian National Parks. The Committee agreed that the Tasmanian case gave an example of the strength of the Convention, particularly for States Parties having a similar system of Federal Government. The Committee requested the Secretariat to distribute this document to all the other States Parties to the Convention.