Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve
Factors affecting the property in 1994*
- Financial resources
- Ground transport infrastructure
- Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community
- Illegal activities
- Management systems/ management plan
- Mining
Factors* affecting the property identified in previous reports
- Lack of Management Plan;
- Lack of funding;
- Poaching;
- New railway;
- Mining;
- Proposed reduction of the protected area;
- Refugees from Liberia
International Assistance: requests for the property until 1994
Total amount approved : 307,382 USD
| 1993 | Equipment and experts service for Mount Nimba (Approved) | 45,000 USD |
| 1993 | Financial contribution for consultancies and other ... (Approved) | 30,000 USD |
| 1993 | Consultancies and other services necessary for setting ... (Approved) | 30,000 USD |
| 1992 | Organization of an interdisciplinary mission to ... (Approved) | 35,000 USD |
| 1992 | Organization of a technical meeting for authorities of ... (Approved) | 19,500 USD |
| 1989 | Purchase of an all terrain vehicle for Mount Nimba (Approved) | 20,000 USD |
| 1988 | Consultancy mission and meeting for preparing ... (Approved) | 15,000 USD |
| 1986 | Equipment for Mount Nimba Reserve (Approved) | 6,500 USD |
| 1983 | Financial contribution to a seminar/workshop on the ... (Approved) | 22,000 USD |
| 1983 | Consultant services to prepare requests for technical ... (Approved) | 6,082 USD |
| 1982 | Financial contribution to a tripartite meeting (Guinea, ... (Approved) | 8,000 USD |
| 1981 | Equipment for Mount Nimba (Approved) | 70,300 USD |
Missions to the property until 1994**
November 1988; June-July 1992: UNESCO field visit; May 1993: joint UNESCO/UNDP/IUCN mission; 1994: 2nd expert mission
Conservation issues presented to the World Heritage Committee in 1994
The site was included on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 1992 because of a proposed iron-ore mining project and threats due to the arrival of a large number of refugees. An expert mission was undertaken in 1993 and proposals to revise the boundaries of the site were endorsed by the seventeenth session of the Committee in 1993.
An international assistance project under the World Heritage Fund was carried out in 1994.
Furthermore, the French Ministry of the Environment in cooperation with IUCN France is carrying out a study and review of the site with regard to potential future investment. A report on this project is expected in due course.
On 19 October, 1994, the Centre received a report of a second expert mission, which was undertaken in 1994, which underlines the continuous precarious state of the site.
Analysis and Conclusion by World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies in 1994
It is recommended that the site be retained on the List of World Heritage in Danger.
Summary of the interventions
Decisions adopted by the Committee in 1994
18 COM IX
SOC: Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve (Guinea/Cote d'Ivoire)
Mount Nimba strict Nature Reserve (Guinea/cote d'Ivoire)
The site was included on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 1992 because of a proposed iron-ore mining project and threats due to the arrival of a large number of refugees. An expert mission was undertaken in 1993 and proposals to revise the boundaries of the site were endorsed by the seventeenth session of the Committee in 1993. An international assistance project under the World Heritage Fund was carried out in 1994. The Committee was informed that the French Ministry of Cooperation and the Ministry of the Environment in cooperation with IUCN France is carrying out a study and review of the site with regard to potential future investment. A report on this project is expected in due course.
The Committee decided to retain this site on the List of World Heritage in Danger and requested that the Bureau at its nineteenth session be informed of the results of the French mission.
The site was included on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 1992 because of a proposed iron-ore mining project and threats due to the arrival of a large number of refugees. An expert mission was undertaken in 1993 and proposals to revise the boundaries of the site were endorsed by the seventeenth session of the Committee in 1993. An international assistance project under the World Heritage Fund was carried out in 1994. The Committee was informed that the French Ministry of the Environment in cooperation with IUCN France is carrying out a study and review of the site with regard to potential future investment. A report on this project is expected in due course.
The Committee decided to retain this site on the List of World Heritage in Danger and requested that the Bureau at its nineteenth session be informed of the results of the French mission.
Côte d'Ivoire 
Guinea
Exports
* :
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.
