Tasmanian Wilderness
Factors affecting the property in 1984*
- Water infrastructure
Factors* affecting the property identified in previous reports
Potential construction of a dam
International Assistance: requests for the property until 1984
Total amount approved : 0 USD
Missions to the property until 1984**
Conservation issues presented to the World Heritage Committee in 1984
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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"The Committee is seriously concerned at the likely effect of dam construction in the area on those natural and cultural characteristics which make the property of outstanding universal value. In particular, it considers that flooding of parts of the river valleys would destroy a number of cultural and natural features of great significance, as identified in the ICOMOS and IUCN reports. The Committee therefore recommends that the Australian authorities take all possible measures to protect the integrity of the property. The Committee suggests that the Australian authorities should ask the Committee to place the pro-perty on the List of World Heritage in Danger until the question of dam construction is resolved."
Analysis and Conclusion by World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies in 1984
The Committee took note of document SC/84/CONF.004/7.
The Committee agreed that the Tasmanian case gave an example of the strength of the Convention, particularly for States Parties having a similar system of Federal Government.
The Committee requested the Secretariat to distribute this document to all the other States Parties to the Convention (see Document SC.84/CONF.004/07).
Summary of the interventions
Decisions adopted by the Committee in 1984
8 COM XIII.39
SOC: Western Tasmanian National Parks (Australia)
39. The Committee took note of document SC-84/CONF.004/7 in which the Australian authorities, at the request of the Bureau at its eighth session, submitted a brief commentary on the judgment of the High Court of Australia regarding Western Tasmanian National Parks. The Committee agreed that the Tasmanian case gave an example of the strength of the Convention, particularly for States Parties having a similar system of Federal Government. The Committee requested the Secretariat to distribute this document to all the other States Parties to the Convention.
No draft decision proposed
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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.
