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State of Conservation

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Properties concerned
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States Parties with SOC reports
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Date Start: 2014close
Date end:2014close
Region: Arab Statesclose
Abu Mena (2014)
States Parties: Egypt
Year: 2014
Document Source: WHC-14/38.COM/7A
Threats*: Management activities Management systems/ management plan Relative humidity Water (rain/water table)
Danger List:  Yes
Ancient City of Aleppo (2014)
States Parties: Syrian Arab Republic
Year: 2014
Document Source: WHC-14/38.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Land conversion Management activities Management systems/ management plan War
Danger List:  Yes
Ancient City of Bosra (2014)
States Parties: Syrian Arab Republic
Year: 2014
Document Source: WHC-14/38.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Housing Illegal activities War
Danger List:  Yes
Ancient City of Damascus (2014)
States Parties: Syrian Arab Republic
Year: 2014
Document Source: WHC-14/38.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Housing Management activities Management systems/ management plan War
Danger List:  Yes
Ancient Villages of Northern Syria (2014)
States Parties: Syrian Arab Republic
Year: 2014
Document Source: WHC-14/38.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Financial resources Housing Human resources Legal framework Management systems/ management plan War
Danger List:  Yes
Archaeological Site of Carthage (2014)
States Parties: Tunisia
Year: 2014
Document Source: WHC-14/38.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing Legal framework Management systems/ management plan
Archaeological Site of Cyrene (2014)
States Parties: Libya
Year: 2014
Document Source: WHC-14/38.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Crop production Deliberate destruction of heritage Governance Housing Interpretative and visitation facilities Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals Management activities Management systems/ management plan Surface water pollution
Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat) (2014)
States Parties: Iraq
Year: 2014
Document Source: WHC-14/38.COM/7A
Threats*: Flooding Management activities Management systems/ management plan Water infrastructure
Other Threats: Fragile mud brick structures
Danger List:  Yes
Bahla Fort (2014)
States Parties: Oman
Year: 2014
Document Source: WHC-14/38.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing Legal framework Management activities Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: Deterioration of the earthen structures of the Fort
Banc d'Arguin National Park (2014)
States Parties: Mauritania
Year: 2014
Document Source: WHC-14/38.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Effects arising from use of transportation infrastructure Fishing/collecting aquatic resources Ground transport infrastructure Housing Illegal activities Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Localised utilities Management systems/ management plan Mining Oil and gas Renewable energy facilities
Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem (2014)
States Parties: State of Palestine
Year: 2014
Document Source: WHC-14/38.COM/7A
Threats*: Management activities Management systems/ management plan Water (rain/water table)
Other Threats: Urgent and necessary consolidation works required (roofing, ...)
Danger List:  Yes
Crac des Chevaliers and Qal’at Salah El-Din (2014)
States Parties: Syrian Arab Republic
Year: 2014
Document Source: WHC-14/38.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Land conversion Management activities Management systems/ management plan Quarrying War
Danger List:  Yes
Gebel Barkal and the Sites of the Napatan Region (2014)
States Parties: Sudan
Year: 2014
Document Source: WHC-14/38.COM/7B
Threats*: Flooding Ground transport infrastructure Housing Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure Management systems/ management plan Wind
Historic Town of Zabid (2014)
States Parties: Yemen
Year: 2014
Document Source: WHC-14/38.COM/7A
Threats*: Deliberate destruction of heritage Housing Land conversion Management systems/ management plan
Danger List:  Yes
Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou (2014)
States Parties: Morocco
Year: 2014
Document Source: WHC-14/38.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Management systems/ management plan
Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls (2014)
States Parties: Jerusalem (Site proposed by Jordan)
Year: 2014
Document Source: WHC-14/38.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Effects arising from use of transportation infrastructure Governance High impact research / monitoring activities Housing Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community Management activities Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: Natural risk factors; Deterioration of monuments
Danger List:  Yes
Old City of Sana'a (2014)
States Parties: Yemen
Year: 2014
Document Source: WHC-14/38.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing Land conversion Management activities
Other Threats: Functional decay of the residential neighborhoods
Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy Valley) and the Forest of the Cedars of God (Horsh Arz el-Rab) (2014)
States Parties: Lebanon
Year: 2014
Document Source: WHC-14/38.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Housing Illegal activities Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Land conversion Legal framework Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure Management systems/ management plan
Samarra Archaeological City (2014)
States Parties: Iraq
Year: 2014
Document Source: WHC-14/38.COM/7A
Threats*: Management systems/ management plan War
Danger List:  Yes
Site of Palmyra (2014)
States Parties: Syrian Arab Republic
Year: 2014
Document Source: WHC-14/38.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Illegal activities Management systems/ management plan War
Other Threats: serious weathering of many stone blocks
Danger List:  Yes
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Egypt Iraq Jordan Lebanon Libya Mauritania Morocco Oman State of Palestine Sudan Syrian Arab Republic Tunisia Yemen
Threats
Management systems/ management plan 19 Housing 12 Management activities 10 War 7 Land conversion 5 Illegal activities 4 Legal framework 4 Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation 3 Governance 3 Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure 2 Effects arising from use of transportation infrastructure 2 Ground transport infrastructure 2 Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals 2 Water (rain/water table) 2 Deliberate destruction of heritage 2 Flooding 2 Financial resources 2 Human resources 2 Interpretative and visitation facilities 1 Localised utilities 1 Renewable energy facilities 1 Water infrastructure 1 Solid waste 1 Surface water pollution 1 Crop production 1 Fishing/collecting aquatic resources 1 Mining 1 Oil and gas 1 Quarrying 1 Relative humidity 1 Wind 1 Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community 1 High impact research / monitoring activities 1

* : 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.


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