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State of Conservation (SOC)

Simien National Park (1985)

UNESCO Extra-Budgetary Funds
International Assistance granted to the property

Requests Approved: 0 (from1978-1982)
Total Amount Ap proved: 149,671USD

1982   Expert service and financial contribution for a seminar/workshop ...   21,000  USD
1982   In situ training of wardens of Simien National Park   9,691  USD
1981   Equipment for Simien National Park   113,450  USD
1979   Joint mission to prepare a technical cooperation request for ...   5,530  USD
1978   Simien: request for equipment and specialists services   0  USD
Missions**
Factors* affecting the property identified in previous reports

Presence of armed groups

Corrective Measures
Current conservation issues

[Oral report]

The management plan for this park, which resulted from a workshop supported by the World Heritage Fund, had been
finalised.

However, the situation described by IUCN at the 8th session of the Committee in 1984 had not developed further and no further information had been obtained.

Conclusion
Decision

  • Adopted

  • Draft Decision

09COMXIII.C
Link to the decision

Simen National Park, Ethiopia: The management plan for this park, which resulted from a workshop supported by the World Heritage Fund, had been finalised. However, the situation described by IUCN at the 8th session of the Committee in 1984 had not developed further and no further information had been obtained.

 

No draft decision proposed

Simien National Park
State Party:
Ethiopia
Date of Inscription: 1978
Nomination records (Year): 1978
Category: Natural
Criteria: (vii)(x)
Exports
Word File
SOC Reports (year)
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
1992
1991
1985
1984
Threats*
  • Civil unrest
  • Other Threats:
Documents
SC.85/CONF.008/09
Other Documents:
View inscribed site documents, nomination file, reports, decisions, ...
SOC ID: 1544
Inscription on the Danger List
Year: 1996
Threats to the Site:

The World Heritage Committee decided to inscribe the Simien National Park on the List of World Heritage in Danger due to evidence of recent deterioration of the population of the Walia ibex, which have moved out of the park due to human presence and to cultivation of considerable areas of the Park. Other large mammals characteristic of the site, such as the bushbuck and the bushpig have become extremely rare.

Road construction and human population increase within the site represent further threats to the values of the Park, which was one of the first sites to be inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1978.

The decision to inscribe this site on the List of World Heritage in Danger had however, not met the approval of the regional authorities in Bahir Dar, where the site is located. Efforts are thus being made by the Department of Wildlife and National Parks of Ethiopia and the UNESCO Office in Addis Ababa to provide more information to the regional authorities on the meaning and implications of the Committee's decision and encourage them to view it in a positive light. 


* : 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.