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Bulgaria, Commercial development (developments in the Bansko ski zone) Management systems/ management plan (lack of effective management mechanisms) Management and institutional factors (boundary issues) Illegal activities (illegal logging)  ,On 1 December 2022, the State Party submitted a report on the state of conservation of the property, available ...

Sudan,Factors identified at the time of inscription of the property: Land conversion (Development and agriculture pressure) Mining (mining project/ associated infrastructure and increased traffic) Impacts of tourism/visitor/recreation Local conditions affecting physical fabric (Flooding, desertification and windblown sand erosion) Management systems / conservation ...

Pakistan, Lack of appropriate conservation work; Deterioration of structures; Suspension of management system; Issues linked to water (drainage, water stagnation, flooding) Damage arising from the 2022 monsoon ,On 20 January 2024, the State Party submitted a state of conservation report, which is available at https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/138/documents. Progress in ...

Sri Lanka, Commercial development Illegal activities Management systems/ management plan Marine transport infrastructure ,On 31 January 2024, the State Party submitted a state of conservation report, which is available at https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/451/documents/. Progress in a number of areas is presented, as follows: To date, approximately 75% of the Integrated ...

Nepal, Pressure and degradation from increasing tourism and mountaineering Development of tourism resort and tourism pressure Climate change Aircraft use Mining Deforestation for firewood ,On 28 December 2015, the State Party submitted a state of conservation report, which is available at https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/120/documents/ and reports the following: The Kongde ...

Archaeological Site of Panamá Viejo: N: 995933,051; E: 666505,166Historic Centre of Panamá City Within Casco Antiguo: N: 989913,756; E: 661089,998 Panama City is directly associated with important interchanges of human values throughout its history due to its strategic position on the Central American Isthmus. As a terminal city and link of important communication routes, ...

The World Heritage Committee today finalized this year's additions to UNESCO's World Heritage List with the inscription of three new sites: Gamzigrad-Romuliana, Palace of Galerius (Serbia), Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape (Azerbaijan), and Central University City Campus of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico.The Late Roman fortified ...

The Lavreotiki area, at the SE end of Attica, was the largest silver-mining centre in both ancient and modern Greece. The mine workings cover an area of 120 km2, from Mt Paneion in Keratea to Cape Sounio and Legraina. Most of the Lavreotiki is protected by law and is a designated archaeological site, an area of outstanding natural beauty and a historical site, while the ...

The Plantations in West Curaçao are a cultural landscape that convey a picture of the Caribbean slave plantations dating from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. The nomination relates to the Ascencion, San Juan, Savonet and Knip plantations. The plantations are relatively large, ranging from 500 to 700 ha. in size. Each comprises a mansion with its ...

India,Lack of management structure and management plan ,At its 31st session, the World Heritage Committee requested the State Party to submit a progress report on the preparation of a management plan for the property to the World Heritage Centre by 1 February 2009, for consideration by the World Heritage Committee at its 33rd session in 2009. On 12 May 2009, the ...

India,,Upon inscribing the property on the World Heritage List at its 31st session (Christchurch, 2007), the World Heritage Committee requested the State Party to submit the completed and agreed comprehensive conservation management plan for approval at its 32nd session in 2008. A progress report together with a revised draft comprehensive conservation management plan ...

Monte Carlo, Monaco,From 11 to 12 December 2018, experts will convene in Monte Carlo, Monaco, to discuss possible practical modalities on how globally unique marine areas beyond national jurisdiction could potentially be protected through the 1972 World Heritage Convention. In 2016, UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ...

Located in the midst of a paradisiacal landscape to the west, in the premises of what was once the so-called Havana Country Club, a place of leisure for the Havana high society, the Revolutionary government decided to develop a complex of art schools thought as a space for artistic creativity of younger generations of Cubans and of Third World artists. The five National ...

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, ...

Kenya, Impacts of the Gibe III dam Other planned hydro-electric developments and associated large-scale irrigation projects in the Omo region Oil exploration Wildlife population decline and pressure from poaching and livestock grazing Impacts of the larger development vision for Northern Kenya Management capacity of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and National Museums of ...

The nominated property covers a continuous area of approximately 188,292 hectares embedded in a large-scale buffer zone. It consists of 17,712 hectares in the former inner-German border strip and 170,580 hectares in adjacent protected areas. The Green Belt is a joint nomination from the nine federal states Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg, ...

Peru, Fires in 1998 and 2001 (issue resolved) Formalization of the procedures to set up a Management Coordination Unit to implement the Strategic Plan Revision of the Master and Strategic Plans New development projects within the Historic Centre including urban transportation systems (Corredor Segregado) and interventions in historical buildings Development of the cable ...

The French Grand Sites Network and its International Training and Exchange Centre for Francophone Heritage Sites Managers organized recently an “Exchange Workshop on management and valorization of paleo-metallurgical sites”. From the 20th to the 24th of May 2013, this workshop gathered sixteen managers of patrimonial sites and paleo-metallurgical experts of ...

A celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the completion of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia took place at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) in Fustat, Cairo (Egypt) on 10 March 2020. The International Campaign was launched in 1960 to relocate and reassemble six groups of monuments in Nubia threatened by the artificial lake ...

India, Decline in the population of Siberian cranes (issue resolved) Inadequate water supply and competition for water with neighbouring communities; Poor water (quality and quantity) management; Invasive species (Prosopis, Eichhornia, Paspalum)(already an issue in the past)  ,On 15 April 2011, the State Party submitted a report on the state of conservation of the property ...