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State of Conservation (SOC)

Garamba National Park (1985)

Desired state of conservation for the removal of the property from the List of World Heritage in Danger
UNESCO Extra-Budgetary Funds
International Assistance granted to the property

Requests Approved: 0 (from1980-1985)
Total Amount Ap proved: 104,120USD

1985   Equipment for the project to protect the rhinoceros population in ...   20,000  USD
1985   Contribution to the project for to rescue the white rhinoceros, ...   25,000  USD
1983   Equipment for rescue programme for white rhino and elephants in ...   40,000  USD
1980   Equipment for Garamba National Park   19,120  USD
Missions**
Factors* affecting the property identified in previous reports

Poaching 

Corrective Measures
Current conservation issues

[Oral report]

The representative of Zaire, the President Delegate General of the Zaire Institute for the Conservation of Nature (IZCN), presented the Committee with an up-to-date report on the progress of work undertaken by IZCN and the consortium formed by Unesco-World Heritage, IUCN/WWF and the Frankfurt Zoological Society.

The main objective of the project is to safeguard the population of endangered northern white rhinoceros in the park.

The project was progressing well and the equipment provided with support of the World Heritage Fund had helped to strengthen the protection of this park. Indeed, there had been no deaths of rhinoceros reported since 1984 and two baby rhinoceroses had been born in May and June in 1985, bringing the population to 15 specimens.

The representative of Zaire stressed his Government's commitment to this project, which, in particular, would enable the rhinoceros population to build up its numbers in its natural habitat. 

Conclusion

The Committee congratulated the Zairois authorities on their laudable efforts to ensure the success of this project and hoped that sufficient progress could eventually be made to remove Garamba National Park from the List of World Heritage in Danger.

Decision

  • Adopted

  • Draft Decision

09COMXIII.A
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Garamba National Park, Zaire: The representative of Zaire, the President Delegate General of the Zaire Institute for the Conservation of Nature (IZCN), presented the Committee with an up-to-date report on the progress of work undertaken by IZCN and the consortium formed by Unesco-World Heritage, IUCN/WWF and the Frankfurt Zoological Society. The main objective of the project is to safeguard the population of endangered northern white rhinoceros in the park. The project was progressing well and the equipment provided with support of the World Heritage Fund had helped to strengthen the protection of this park. Indeed, there had been no deaths of rhinoceros reported since 1984 and two baby rhinoceroses had been born in May and June in 1985, bringing the population to 15 specimens. The representative of Zaire stressed his Government's commitment to this project, which, in particular, would enable the rhinoceros population to build up its numbers in its natural habitat. The Committee congratulated the Zairois authorities on their laudable efforts to ensure the success of this project and hoped that sufficient progress could eventually be made to remove Garamba National Park from the List of World Heritage in Danger.

 

09COMXIV.41
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41. The Committee approved two requests concerning properties inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger:

- Benin - Royal Palaces of Abomey: $20,000

- Zaire: Garamba National Park: $20,000

The Committee authorized the Bureau to approve an additional amount of $20,000 under technical cooperation for this property subject to the receipt of an appropriate request.

 

No draft decision proposed

Garamba National Park
State Party:
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Date of Inscription: 1980
Nomination records (Year): 1979
Category: Natural
Criteria: (vii)(x)
Danger List: Yes
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Threats*
  • Illegal activities
  • Other Threats:
Documents
SC.85/CONF.008/09
Other Documents:
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SOC ID: 1535
Inscription on the Danger List
Year: 1996
Threats to the Site:

The Garamba National Park was inscribed again on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 1996 for the following reasons: 

a)         Increased poaching;

b)         Pressure linked to the civil war, thereby threatening the flagship species of the property.

Year: 1984 -1992
Threats to the Site:

The Garamba National Park was listed for the first time on the List of World Heritage in Danger between 1984 and 1992 due to a serious decline in the population of white rhinos. With the success of the measures taken by the World Heritage Committee, IUCN, WWF, the Frankfurt Zoological Society and the national authorities, the rhino population has increased from an alarming  total of five specimens to thirty-five animals and the site was removed from the List of World Heritage in danger at the sixteenth session of the Committee in 1992.


* : 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.