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State of Conservation (SOC)

Garamba National Park (1987)

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 (from1980-1986)
Total Amount Ap proved: 124,120USD

1986   Purchase of equipment for the project to protect the rhinoceros ...   20,000  USD
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; Management issues

Corrective Measures
Current conservation issues

The last northern white rhinos in the wild are holding their own and in fact have increased by three to a total of 18.

Their status is still precarious, however, and support from the donors involved, including World Heritage, is scheduled to continue.

 

Conclusion
Decision

  • Adopted

  • Draft Decision

11COMVIII.17
Link to the decision

17. The Committee noted with satisfaction that the situation in two of the natural sites inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger - namely Djoudj National Park (Senegal) and Ngorongoro Conservation Area (Tanzania) - had considerably improved in the last year and that IUCN would be proposing that they be removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger in the next two years. The situation of Garamba National Park (Zaire) was also improving but was still critical.

 

No draft Decision

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
Exports
Word File
SOC Reports (year)
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1992
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1987
1986
1985
1984
Threats*
  • Illegal activities
  • Management systems/ management plan
  • Other Threats:
Documents
SC.87/CONF.005/INF.1
Other Documents:
View inscribed site documents, nomination file, reports, decisions, ...
SOC ID: 1568
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.