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State of Conservation

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Reports
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Properties concerned
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States Parties with SOC reports
Date Start: 2016close
Date end:2016close
States Parties: Egypt
Year: 2016
Document Source: WHC/16/40.COM/7A
Threats*: Management activities Management systems/ management plan Water (rain/water table)
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Niger
Year: 2016
Document Source: WHC/16/40.COM/7A
Threats*: Civil unrest Erosion and siltation/ deposition Forestry /wood production Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community Illegal activities Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals Management activities Management systems/ management plan
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Ethiopia
Year: 2016
Document Source: WHC/16/40.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing Interpretative and visitation facilities Management systems/ management plan Water (rain/water table)
Other Threats: Structural instability of Stele 3
States Parties: China
Year: 2016
Document Source: WHC/16/40.COM/7B
Threats*: Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Management activities Management systems/ management plan
States Parties: Syrian Arab Republic
Year: 2016
Document Source: WHC/16/40.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Land conversion Management activities Management systems/ management plan War
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Syrian Arab Republic
Year: 2016
Document Source: WHC/16/40.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Housing Illegal activities War
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Syrian Arab Republic
Year: 2016
Document Source: WHC/16/40.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Housing Management activities Management systems/ management plan War
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Ukraine
Year: 2016
Document Source: WHC/16/40.COM/7B.Add
Other Threats: Critical state of conservation of the ruins in the city of Tauric Chersonese, some of which are highly dilapidated or even close to collapse
States Parties: Mexico
Year: 2016
Document Source: WHC/16/40.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Governance Legal framework Management systems/ management plan
States Parties: Syrian Arab Republic
Year: 2016
Document Source: WHC/16/40.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Financial resources Housing Human resources Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community Illegal activities Legal framework Management systems/ management plan Quarrying War
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Tunisia
Year: 2016
Document Source: WHC/16/40.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Housing Legal framework Management systems/ management plan
States Parties: Libya
Year: 2016
Document Source: WHC/16/40.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
States Parties: Iraq
Year: 2016
Document Source: WHC/16/40.COM/7A,WHC/17/41.COM/INF.7 Rev
Threats*: Deliberate destruction of heritage Flooding Management activities Management systems/ management plan War Water infrastructure
Other Threats: Fragile mud brick structures
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Poland
Year: 2016
Document Source: WHC/16/40.COM/7B
Threats*: Ground transport infrastructure Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: Slow process of consultation with local communities.
States Parties: Oman
Year: 2016
Document Source: WHC/16/40.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing Legal framework Management activities Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: Deterioration of the earthen structures of the Fort
States Parties: Mauritania
Year: 2016
Document Source: WHC/16/40.COM/7B
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
States Parties: Belize
Year: 2016
Document Source: WHC/16/40.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Housing Invasive / alien marine species Land conversion Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure Oil and gas
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Belarus Poland
Year: 2016
Document Source: WHC/16/40.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Financial resources Forestry /wood production Human resources Illegal activities Invasive/alien terrestrial species Management systems/ management plan
States Parties: State of Palestine
Year: 2016
Document Source: WHC/16/40.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Housing Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Management activities Management systems/ management plan Water (rain/water table)
Other Threats: Degradation of the architectural complex of the Church of the Nativity
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Russian Federation
Year: 2016
Document Source: WHC/16/40.COM/7B
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Management systems/ management plan 113 Housing 48 Illegal activities 43 Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation 33 Ground transport infrastructure 31 Legal framework 28 Land conversion 27 Management activities 25 Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure 23 Mining 22 Water infrastructure 17 Civil unrest 16 War 16 Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals 15 Financial resources 15 Human resources 15 Governance 13 Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community 12 Oil and gas 11 Interpretative and visitation facilities 10 Deliberate destruction of heritage 10 Invasive/alien terrestrial species 10 Effects arising from use of transportation infrastructure 8 Erosion and siltation/ deposition 8 Marine transport infrastructure 7 Surface water pollution 7 Fishing/collecting aquatic resources 7 Solid waste 6 Water (rain/water table) 6 Underground transport infrastructure 5 Renewable energy facilities 5 Forestry /wood production 5 Industrial areas 4 Society's valuing of heritage 4 Flooding 4 Invasive / alien freshwater species 4 Commercial development 3 Air transport infrastructure 3 Localised utilities 3 Major linear utilities 3 Water (extraction) 3 Changes in traditional ways of life and knowledge system 3 Other climate change impacts 3 Storms 3 Earthquake 3 Fire (widlfires) 3 High impact research / monitoring activities 3 Air pollution 2 Commercial hunting 2 Quarrying 2 Wind 2 Indigenous hunting, gathering and collecting 2 Drought 2 Invasive / alien marine species 2 Ground water pollution 1 Crop production 1 Subsistence hunting 1 Relative humidity 1 Ritual / spiritual / religious and associative uses 1 Changes to oceanic waters 1 Desertification 1 Translocated species 1 Low 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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