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Lesotho,South Africa, Interpretative and visitation facilities: Need to improve presentation of cultural aspects, in particular the San rock art sites within the Environmental Centre Legal framework: Revisions, amendments and enactment of relevant laws pertinent to the property not yet finalized in Lesotho Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure, ...

Senegal,Road project; Poaching,IUCN's Regional Representative for West Africa recently conducted a field review of management of the park. A report on requirements to strengthen the management and to prepare a proper plan has been forwarded to the Minister of Nature ...

Lesotho,South Africa, Interpretative and visitation facilities: Need to improve presentation of cultural aspects, in particular the San rock art sites within the Environmental Centre Legal framework: Revisions, amendments and enactment of relevant laws pertinent to the property not yet finalized in Lesotho Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure, ...

Lesotho,South Africa, Interpretative and visitation facilities: Need to improve presentation of cultural aspects, in particular the San rock art sites within the Environmental Centre Legal framework: Revisions, amendments and enactment of relevant laws pertinent to the property not yet finalized in Lesotho Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure, ...

Senegal,Road project; Poaching; Management issues,The Bureau recalled that at its sixteenth session in July 1992 it had requested IUCN to provide a report on the progress in the implementation of measures to mitigate environmental impacts of a road construction project in this Park. The Representative of IUCN informed the Bureau that the University of Dakar, Senegal, had ...

Mali, Sand encroachment (issue resolved) Lack of financial resources (issue resolved) Deterioration of the rainwater drainage system (issue resolved) Need for appropriate laws (issue resolved) Aeolian erosion  Vulnerability of the mosques ,WHC The mosques of Timbuktu are one of the World Heritage sites that have been evaluated during the periodic ...

Zambia,Zimbabwe, Project to construct a dam across the gorge (issue resolved) Proposed hotel complex on the Zambian side of this trans-border World Heritage site  ,Previous deliberations: Twenty-second session of the Committee – Chapter VII.27 Twenty-third ordinary session of the Bureau – Chapter IV. 46    New information: IUCN’s Regional Office for Southern Africa was ...

Cameroon, Commercial logging in adjoining natural forests Poaching Mine exploration phase ,During August and September, The Guardian (London, UK) published two articles on illegal poaching in Cameroon, with particular mention of and Dja Faunal Reserve.  One article criticised UNESCO for not doing enough to halt the loss of wildlife in Dja Faunal Reserve, quoting a ...

Zambia,Zimbabwe,Project to construct a dam across the gorge (issue resolved),The Bureau was informed that IUCN had reviewed the “Scoping Report: Potential impacts associated with the proposed development of the Mosi-Oa-Tunya Hotel Complex”, prepared by the Division of Water, Environment and Forestry Technology, CSIR, South Africa. This report was commissioned by Sun ...

Benin, Storm in 1984 (issue resolved) Need for a management and conservation plan for the site ,WHC: The World Heritage Centre has been informed by the Cultural Heritage Division of the Culture Sector of UNESCO of the rehabilitation work currently going on in the Royal Palaces of Abomey in the King Behanzin's Palace. These activities include: inventory, drainage, ...

Lesotho,South Africa,Threats identified at the time of the extension in 2013 (Decision 37 COM 8B.18) included: Need for further research and documentation to establish an inventory of rock art in Sehlabathebe National Park Need for study of the potential cultural contribution of other landscape elements to the cultural values of Sehlabathebe National Park Need ...

Central African Republic, Mining; Oil Gas and Exploration; Fishing; Poaching/Hunting; Lack of capacity in conservation techniques; Lack of management mechanism (including legislation); Lack of monitoring system; Lack of presentation and interpretation; Lack of human or financial resources; Lack of institution coordination; Civil unrest. ,At its 27th session, the Committee ...

Benin,Burkina Faso,Niger, Phosphate mining project Dam project Lack of monitoring of the implementation of the Management Plan. ,At its 28th session (Suzhou, 2004), the Committee requested that the State Party provide a report on the results of any environmental impact assessment which might be carried out or of any decisions taken concerning the planned dam and mining ...

Côte d'Ivoire,Poaching to the wildlife of this site ,The State Party is in the process of implementing International Assistance provided under Technical Co-operation by the twenty–third session of the World Heritage Committee amounting to US$50,000 for the organisation of two national seminars for local authorities on poaching problems in the site, for elaboration of a ...

South Africa,,In January 2011, the World Heritage Centre requested the State Party to undertake a study to address concerns that had been raised by various parties about a potential threat to the World Heritage property posed by effluent from abandoned and active mines in the vicinity. The study, commissioned by the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site Management ...

South Africa,a) Lack of a proper buffer zone b) Lack of a management plan c) Mining activities d) Development pressure,The World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies were alerted through press reports to the granting in February 2010 of a coal mining permit to an Australian company, Coal of Africa Ltd (CoA), in an area immediately to the east of the Mapungubwe Cultural ...

Cameroon,a) Lack of implementation and full approval of management plan; b) Industrial mining activities proposed adjacent to the property; c) Industrial farming proposed in the buffer zone; d) Threats from commercial hunting; deforestation around the property.,On 19 April 2006 the World Heritage Centre received from the State Party a report on the state of conservation ...

United Republic of Tanzania, Poaching Rapidly growing human population Poorly designed ad-hoc tourism development projects Need to strengthen the coordination with the trans-border Masai Mara Reserve in Kenya  Road project ,The Centre and IUCN reported to the 25th session of the Bureau (Helsinki, December 2001) of the potential impacts on the Serengeti and Mara ...

Côte d'Ivoire,Guinea,Lack of Management Plan; Lack of funding; Poaching; New railway; Mining,The concern of the Committee and the Bureau regarding the impact of the proposed mining of iron-ore in this site had already been communicated to the Guinean authorities, the French authorities (in view of the interests of a French mining company), as well as the World Bank. ...

Central African Republic, Insecurity Poaching Mining Transhumance and illegal grazing Illegal fishing Illegal occupation of the property ,On 7 April 2016, the State Party submitted a state of conservation report on the property, available at https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/475/documents/. The State Party has not yet issued an invitation for a Reactive Monitoring mission ...