The World Heritage Committee,
- Having examined Document WHC-14/38.COM/7A.Add,
- Recalling Decision 37 COM 7A.1, adopted at its 37th session (Phnom Penh, 2013),
- Regrets the degradation of the security situation in the Central African Republic marked by an outbreak of violence and internal conflicts;
- Reiterates its utmost concern regarding the likely disappearance of most of the flagship species of large mammals in the property, due to poaching and the impact of transhumant cattle, and expresses its deep concern as regards the further deterioration of the situation since its last session;
- Also expresses its continuing concern that the property may lose its Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) which may lead to its deletion from the World Heritage List, in conformity with Paragraph 176 d) and Chapter IV.C of the Operational Guidelines and requests the State Party to invite a joint World Heritage Centre/IUCN reactive monitoring mission as soon as the security situation permits, to assess whether there remain perspectives for regeneration of the characteristics of the property that justify its OUV;
- Reiterates its request to the State Party to organize a workshop to assess the feasibility of the restoration of the OUV of the property in the current conditions of security and based on these conclusions, the eventual preparation of an emergency action plan in accordance with the corrective measures adopted by the Committee at its 33rd session (Seville, 2009);
- Also requests the State Party to submit to the World Heritage Centre, by 1 February 2015, a progress report, including a 1-page executive summary, on the current state of conservation of the property and the perspectives of regeneration of the characteristics of the property that justify its OUV, as well as the conditions of integrity, for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 39th session in 2015;
- Decides to continue the application of the Reinforced Monitoring mechanism to this property;
- Decides to retain Manovo Gounda St. Floris National Park (Central African Republic) on the List of World Heritage in Danger.