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CAWHFI’s first component focused its action on the improvement of the management of the Sangha Trinational, Gamba-Mayumba-Conkouati and Dja-Odzala-Minkebe Trinational transborder landscapes, so as to significantly decrease the poaching pressure affecting them.
Prepared in collaboration with three conservation NGOs, the management services of wildlife and of the protected ...
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Lithuania,Russian Federation,
Potential pollution from the oil exploitation of the D-6 oil field in the Baltic Sea by the Russian Federation;
Lack of bilateral cooperation between Lithuania and the Russian Federation including joint assessment of environmental impact of the D-6 project;
Impacts of sewage spill accident which took place at Klaipeda Water Treatment Station ...
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Peru,a) Frequent seismic activity in the region and flooding during the rainy season;
b) Demolition of houses in the Historical Centre and the restoration of the San Agustin Church;
c) Material decay and abandonment of buildings, as well as the effect of heavy traffic on historic buildings.,The State Party submitted its state of conservation report on the property to the ...
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Chile,,On 31 January 2012, the World Heritage Centre received a letter signed by 24 local institutions (academic, civil society and trade unions) and 1000 citizens of Valparaiso against the interventions planned at the port, such as the Barón Port and the Prat Dock, as well as for touristic facilities and real estate projects. The World Heritage Centre requested ...
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Niger,a) Political instability and civil strife;
b) Poverty;
c) Management constraints;
d) Ostrich poaching;
e) Soil erosion;
f) Demographic pressure;
g) Livestock pressure;
h) Pressure on wood resources.,The State Party report was received on 22 May 2008. The report presents information on the declining status of many wildlife species, the continued degradation of the ...
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Senegal,a) Lack of monitoring and control mechanism;
b) The lack of a Conservation and Management Plan;
c) New construction and architectural modification and urban projects affecting authenticity and integrity;
d) Inappropriate housing restoration;
e) Environmental disorder due to the modification of the mouth of the Senegal River;
f) Extremely poor state of conservation ...
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India,General threats:
a) Lack of co-ordinated and integrated management system;
b) Lack of detailed property documentation;
c) Increasing numbers of visitors.
Specific threats:
d) Loss of character of the cultural landscape directly associated with the property and its outstanding universal value;
e) Lack of protection under national legislation.,The State Party ...
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,a) Lack of overall management of new developments;
b) Lack of analysis and description of the townscape characteristics relevant to the Outstanding Universal Value of the property and important views related to the property and its buffer zone;
c) Lack of clearly established maximum heights for new developments, for ...
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China,
Possible negative impacts of development projects in areas surrounding the buffer zones on the visual integrity of the property (issue resolved)
Apparent inadequacy of the current management system.
,On 25 January 2013, a report on the state of conservation of the property was submitted to the World Heritage Centre by the State Party in response to Decision 35 COM ...
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Managers from 46 marine World Heritage sites will meet in Ajaccio, Corsica, from October 18-20, for the second World Heritage Marine Site Managers’ conference.
The World Heritage Convention was founded in 1972 on the premise that certain places on our planet – cultural or natural -- should be recognized as having “outstanding universal value” and ...
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Mozambique,a) Delay in implementing rehabilitation of the San Sebastian Fortress;
b) Management plan not yet finalised;
c) Buildings threatened with collapse;
d) Lack of development control and threats to authenticity;
e) Lack of adequate sewage system.,In its report submitted to the World Heritage Centre on 1 February 2008, the State Party presented the progress in ...
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Costa Rica,Panama,,On 23 April 2007, the International Environmental Law Project of Lewis & Clark Law School (Portland, Orgegon) published an on-line petition directed to the World Heritage Committee requesting that the property be inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger (see http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/press/la-amistad-04-23-2007.html). The ...
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Lao People's Democratic Republic,
Lack of enforcement of the Luang Prabang Conservation Plan (PSMV) and illegal constructions;
Public works (proposed new town, airport extension, pedestrian bridge) which may affect the Outstanding Universal Value.
,In response to the request made by the World Heritage Committee at its 36th session, the State Party submitted a State of ...
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France,Spain,a) Impacts of the Gavarnie Festival (France);
b) Insufficient support for agropastoralism;
c) Inefficient transboundary cooperation.,On 31 January 2012, the States Parties (France and Spain) provided a joint report that contains information on transboundary management and pastoral activities. The report indicates efforts to minimize the impacts of the Gavarnie ...
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UNESCO regrets the U.K. government's decision to cancel the A303 Stonehenge Road Improvement scheme on the basis of cost concerns and hopes that another solution will be found to relieve traffic congestion around the World Heritage property of Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated sites. UNESCO's World Heritage Centre, which has been actively involved in finding a ...
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Putbus, Germany,Central Europe's Natural World Heritage and the Future of Cultural Landscapes - Part VI: "Tourism Planning and Management for Natural World Heritage Sites in Central and Eastern Europe" Are Central Europe's most precious natural values and landscapes well protected And is their outstanding universal value reflected in the list of World Natural ...
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,In the framework of the UNESCO/Netherlands Funds-in-Trust project “Building capacity in managing World Heritage properties, interconnection of development and heritage preservation in Uzbekistan and Central Asia” the World Heritage Centre (UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France) is organizing, in close cooperation with the UNESCO Tashkent Office, a three-day online ...
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Following South Sudan’s ratification of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention in January 2016, UNESCO organized a technical workshop from 8 to 13 June 2016 in Juba to support the process of preparing South Sudan’s World Heritage Tentative List. Over ten representatives from ministries responsible for natural and cultural heritage, NGOs, and Juba University participated in ...
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Azerbaijan,a) Changing urban fabric due to the demolition of buildings and uncontrolled construction within the Walled City;
b) Overall lack of any management system and in particular insufficient coordination between the national and municipal authorities;
c) Absence of a comprehensive management plan that addresses conservation problems, urban development control and ...
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The situation continues to get worse at Virunga National Park (Democratic Republic of the Congo), where 2 male silverbacks have been killed.The gruesome tally continues: since late December the mountain gorilla, a flagship species that contributes to the recognition of the outstanding universal value of the Park, has suffered serious losses by armed groups. On January 6 ...
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UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova's Special Envoy on the Preah Vihear Temple, Koïchiro Matsuura, will travel to Bangkok and Phnom Penh between 25 February and 1 March to discuss the safeguarding of the World Heritage site with the Thai and Cambodian prime ministers.
Mr Matsuura, a former Director-General of UNESCO (1999-2009) and a former Chair of the World ...
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Published on the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, this thematic collection of case studies provides a thorough understanding of World Heritage sites and their Outstanding Universal Value in the context of sustainable development. It is now available in French and Korean versions.
The case studies describe twenty-six thematically, typologically and ...
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An oil spill occurred in The Sundarbans, Bangladesh on Tuesday, 9 December when a small coastal oil tanker sank after being rammed by another vessel from behind, releasing approximately 400,000 liters of oil in the water.
The Sundarbans was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1997 and is one of the largest mangrove forests in the world. It lies on the delta of the ...
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Canada,Urban development pressure ,In the framework of the Periodic Reporting exercise, the State Party informed that the situation of the area of the Pointe-à-Carcy has remained unchanged since the previous session of the Committee. After having taken into account the recommendations concerning the project of a cruise ship terminal at ...
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WHC, UNESCO Headquarter, Room VI,Preparation of the 31st session of the World Heritage Committee, Christchurch, New-Zealand, 23 Juin - 2 July 2007 and progress review of the implementation of Committee decisions.AgendaItems 18A and 18B: International Assistance Item 5: Advisory Bodies report on their activitiesItem 7.1: Climate ChangeItem 7.2: Risk preparedness ...
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UNESCO Headquarter, Paris,At the request of a number of Members of the World Heritage Committee, an Orientation Session for members of the Committee is organized early in the year to allow for better preparations for the Committee session.
This session is organized notably for new Committee members and is held in addition to the one which traditionally takes place the day ...
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India,a) Design and location of transport infrastructure near inscribed monuments;
b) Lack of coordination and resource support for site management;
c) Lack of building and land-use regulations;
d) Tourism development pressures;
e) Lack of traffic regulations limiting heavy duty vehicular traffic;
f) Pressure from illegal constructions. ,The State Party submitted a ...
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Nepal,a) Lack of a conservation policy and inappropriate management of the site;
b) Impact on the archaeological remains as well as on the visual integrity of the property by the Maya Devi Temple constructed in 2002.,On 1 February 2008, the State Party submitted a progress report containing three sections:
a) Response to requests made by the World Heritage Committee at ...
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The seminar "Climate Change, World Heritage and Tourism" was presented at UNESCO Headquarters on 16 December 2019 by Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University in collaboration with UNESCO World Heritage Centre, ICOMOS France and the Association des biens francais du patrimoine mondial.
On a global scale, tourism is a factor contributing to climate change, especially when ...
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Russian Federation,a) Lack of management plan;
b) Weakening of conservation controls and laws;
c) Impacts of proposed tourism infrastructure development for Olympic Games;
d) Road construction;,The State Party submitted a report on 15 February 2008. This report presented information on the status of the buffer zone and boundaries, Lagonaki plateau, management plan, ...
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Panama,Continued and growing presence of cattle,On 15 February 2011 the State Party submitted a report on the state of conservation of the property. This report provides an overview of progress made in finalizing and implementing a management plan for the Special Zone of Marine Protection, establishing a formal policy on the development and conservation of the coastal zone ...
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Panama,a) Deterioration and destruction of the fabric of the property by environmental factors, lack of a maintenance programme, as well as polluted water;
b) Erosion;
c) Absence of management policies included in management plans;
d) Uncontrolled urban development;
e) Tourism pressures (in particular at Portobelo).,The State Party provided a report on the state of ...
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Belize,a) Mangrove cutting,
b) Sea bottom dredging for resort development;
c) Sale of lands. ,The property is composed of seven protected areas, mostly consisting of marine areas with many small mangrove islands. Its Outstanding Universal Value is closely associated with intact marine and littoral forest ecosystems, including mangroves and related marine and ...
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Kenya,a) Illegal forest resource extraction;
b) Community-wildlife conflict;
c) Poaching;
d) Excisions from the property. ,Mount Kenya National Park was inscribed under natural criteria (vii) and (ix) as one of the most impressive landscapes of Eastern Africa with its rugged glacier-clad summits, Afro-alpine moor lands and diverse forests, which illustrate outstanding ...
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Mechtild Rossler, Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, acknowledges the great efforts of those engaged for World Heritage protection, and calls for civil society as a whole to increase its commitment to protecting World Heritage sites. World Heritage is humankind’s common heritage, and the responsibility for its conservation is shared by everyone.
The World ...
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,a) Impact of fire at Cowgate;
b) Impact of rubbish containers. ,The Old and New Towns were inscribed on the World Heritage List for their remarkable juxtaposition of two urban planning phenomena: the early mediaeval ‘herringbone’ layout of the Old Town on the crag, and the regular layout of the ...
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Albania,Austria,Belgium,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Bulgaria,Croatia,Czechia,France,Germany,Italy,North Macedonia,Poland,Romania,Slovakia,Slovenia,Spain,Switzerland,Ukraine,Threats identified at the time of the extension of the property in 2011:
Lack of integrated Management Plan;
Lack of transnational research and monitoring plans;
Need for capacity building.
,The World ...
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WHC-15/39.COM/8B.Add
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Spain,a) Toxic pollution after mining accident in 1998;
b) Agriculture impacts;
c) Extension of the National Park,In 2009, the World Heritage Centre and IUCN received reports from NGOs concerning the development of several oil refinery projects near the property, namely the expansion of the La Rábida refinery and the construction of a pipeline for the Bilboa ...
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South Africa,a) Visitor pressure;
b) Lack of comprehensive Conservation management plan;
c) Lack of specific annual plans of operation;
d) Difficulties with operational aspects of maintenance and conservation implementation including lack of preventive maintenance funding and programming;
e) Lack of appropriate conservation of the built heritage;
f) Lack of proactive ...
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Russian Federation,Erection of a monument in honour of Marshal G. Zhukov,The World Heritage Committee discussed during its 31st session (Christchurch, 2007) information received concerning the loss of historic fabric in the transformation of a structure called the “Middle Trading Rows”, a five building ensemble (1891-1894) opposite the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower ...
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Argentina,a) Proposed development of hydropower dams;
b) Uncoordinated developments;
c) Lack of transboundary cooperation;
d) Lack of sustainable financing;
e) Problems associated with public use;
f) Lack of a comprehensive public use plan. ,As requested by Decision 31 COM 7B.38, the State Party of Argentina provided on 19 March 2008 an invitation in coordination ...
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Peru,a) Lack of a Disaster Preparedness Plan
b) Ongoing planned development projects which impact the historic centre, such as the planned construction of the Chilina Bridge
c) Illegal demolitions involving historical buildings,The World Heritage Centre received a state of conservation report on 2 February 2010. The report provides a brief summary of the property and ...
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Uganda,Fire is mentioned in the ICOMOS evaluation of 2001 as the main threat to the property:,On 16 March 2010, a fire devastated the Muzibu Azaala Mpanga building, a major component of the World Heritage property. This building housed the four royal Buganda tombs. The large, circular thatched building, supported on wooden columns wrapped in bark cloth, was originally ...
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World Heritage Papers Series No. 26: Cultural Landscapes, A Handbook for Conservation and Management may be downloaded from the UNESCO World Heritage Centre website.
Cultural landscapes are those where human interaction with natural systems has, over a long period, formed a distinctive landscape. These interactions, in the case of World Heritage cultural landscapes, are of ...
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Echoing the call of UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova, the World Heritage Committee has established a Special Fund to support Mali’s efforts to safeguard the World Heritage properties affected by the armed conflict in the north of the country, notably the sites of Timbuktu and the Tomb of Askia in Gao.
The Fund will support the Government of Mali in assessing ...
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In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, Eastern National and the National Park Service’s Office of International Affairs have produced the new booklet "World Heritage Sites in the United States". The booklet highlights the 21 sites in the United States that have been selected and inscribed on the World Heritage List for their natural ...
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As requested by the World Heritage Committee at its 39th session in 2015 (Bonn, Germany), a joint Reactive Monitoring Mission involving the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) will take place from 22 to 28 March 2016 to assess the overall state of conservation of the property.
The mission will focus on issues that ...
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Today, on 24 September 2018, a group of experts from the World Heritage Centre and IUCN arrived in Warsaw to carry out a joint Reactive Monitoring mission to the transboundary World Heritage property “Białowieża Forest” (Belarus/Poland). Situated on the watershed of the Baltic and Black Seas, the World Heritage property is the site of an immense and biologically diverse ...
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The World Heritage Office of the Historic Heritage Protection Directorate of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of the Government of Spain is organizing the XII National Meeting of World Heritage Managers, hosted by the Luis Seoane Foundation from 6 to 8 of November 2018 in the city of Coruna.
The meeting, celebrated annually since 2007, is a space for analysis, ...
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Cuba,,The original nomination file for this property was considered by the World Heritage Bureau during its 23rd session in July 1999. In the IUCN evaluation report presented at that session, the existence of old and inactive mining concessions located near the area originally nominated by the State Party was clearly identified, and it was indicated that any activation of ...
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Australia,Potential construction of a dam,The Australian authorities, at the request of the Bureau at its eighth session (Note: for the Nomination of the site on the World Heritage List, see text below), submitted a brief commentary on the judgement of the High Court of Australia regarding Western Tasmanian National Parks.
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Christchurch, New Zealand,The 31st session of the World HeritageCommittee, Christchurch, New Zealand, 23 June to 2 July 2007. The World Heritage Committee consists of representatives from 21 States Parties to the Convention concerning the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage, elected by the General Assembly of States Parties to the Convention. The current ...
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Tongariro National Park, New Zealand,A World Heritage Workshop is planned for delegates from Pacific Island nations in Tongariro National Park, New Zealand. This is a follow up to the 2004 workshop where the Pacific 2009 Action Plan was developed.
The intention and objectives of the workshop are to:
Develop a Pacific position paper to be presented at the 31st session of ...
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Almaty, Kazkhstan,The UNESCO World Heritage Centre, in collaboration with the UNESCO Almaty office, are organising a "Sub-Regional Meeting on the Nomination of the West Tien-Shan as Transboundary Natural Heritage Site" in Almaty on 18 and 19 July 2007 with the participation of invited experts and officials from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. The Sub-Regional ...
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Havana, Cuba,,The workshop, which is jointly organized by the UNESCO Havana and Kingston offices, aims at strengthening capacities in the Caribbean to implement the 1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (the World Heritage Convention).
By using the training modules developed under the Caribbean Capacity Building programme ...
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,In the framework of the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the UNESCO Office in Moscow, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus, the National Commission of the Republic of Belarus for UNESCO and Naysvizh National History and Culture Museum-Reserve are jointly organizing the International capacity-building ...
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Jeongok Prehistory Museum, Republic of Korea.,Within the framework of the World Heritage Centre Thematic Programme Human Evolution Adaptations, Dispersals and Social Developments (HEADS), the Government of Korea and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre organize the International meeting of Experts "Human Origin Sites in Asia and the World Heritage Convention" at the Jeongok ...