Plitvice Lakes National Park
Factors affecting the property in 1998*
- Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation
Factors* affecting the property identified in previous reports
- War in the region (issue resolved);
- Poaching of bears (issue resolved);
- Dynamite fishing (issue resolved;
- Destruction of the forests and park facilities (issue resolved);
- Possible over-visitation of the site
International Assistance: requests for the property until 1998
Total amount approved : 76,000 USD
| 1998 | Designing and Developing a Dynamic three-dimensional ... (Approved) | 16,000 USD |
| 1995 | N, Plitvice (Approved) | 30,000 USD |
| 1992 | Expert mission to Plitvice to assess the damage caused ... (Approved) | 30,000 USD |
Missions to the property until 1998**
February 1992: IUCN expert mission; September 1992: UNESCO/IUCN mission; September 1993: WHC/IUCN mission; May 1996: World Heritage Centre mission
Conservation issues presented to the World Heritage Committee in 1998
Since the Committee decided to remove this site from the List of World Heritage in Danger at its twenty-first session, the Centre has received a brief status report on the site’s protection. A seven-member Administrative Council is responsible for the management of the site. The Park has statutes and rules of procedures, with regulating, principles for residents, staff and visitors. Further positive results have been achieved with the efforts to limit traffic through the Park by the construction of a detour around the Park. The authorities had provided a map showing the extension of the Park’s boundaries by about 100km2. The map has been returned to the Croatian authorities requesting them, in accordance with the recommendation of the last session of the Committee, to nominate the extension of the 100 km2 using standard nomination procedures set out in paragraph 64 of the Operational Guidelines.
Summary of the interventions
Decisions adopted by the Committee in 1998
22 COM VII.22
SOC: Plitvice Lakes National Park (Croatia)
VII.22 Plitvice Lakes National Park (Croatia)
Since the Committee decided to remove this site from the List of World Heritage in Danger at its twenty-first session, the Centre has received a brief status report on the site's protection. A seven-member Administrative Council is responsible for the management of the site. The Park has statutes and rules of procedures, with regulating principles for residents, staff and visitors. Further positive results have been achieved with the efforts to limit traffic through the Park by the construction of a detour around the Park. The authorities had provided a map showing the extension of the Park's boundaries by about 100 km2. The map has been returned to the Croatian authorities requesting them, in accordance with the recommendation of the last session of the Committee, to nominate the extension of the 100 km2 using standard nomination procedures set out in paragraph 64 of the Operational Guidelines.
The Committee commended the authorities for their continuing efforts to enhance the protection of Plitvice Lakes National Park and urged them to nominate, as soon as possible, the 100km2 extension, using standard nomination procedures set out in paragraph 64 of the Operational Guidelines.
The Bureau recommended the Committee to adopt the following:
“The Committee commends the authorities for their continuing efforts to enhance the protection of Plitvice Lake National Park and urges them to nominate, as soon as possible, the extension, using standard nomination procedures set out in paragraph 64 of the Operational Guidelines.”
Croatia
Exports
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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.
