Natural System of Wrangel Island Reserve
Factors affecting the property in 2008*
- Management systems/ management plan
Factors* affecting the property identified in previous reports
Lack of management plan
International Assistance: requests for the property until 2008
Total amount approved : 0 USD
Missions to the property until 2008**
Conservation issues presented to the World Heritage Committee in 2008
When the property was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2004, the World Heritage Committee requested the State Party to urgently prepare a management plan and implementation strategy, and requested the World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies to undertake a mission, in co-operation with the State Party, in 2006/2007 to report on the status of the management plan and review its implementation. The World Heritage Committee also encouraged the State Party to consider the extension of the marine component of this property by a further 12 nautical miles to strengthen protection of the marine biodiversity of the Wrangel Island Reserve.
There is no reported progress on these issues since the inscription of the property. The World Heritage Centre has requested the State Party to prepare and forward a copy of the necessary management plan, and provide a translation of it in French or English for review by the World Heritage Centre and IUCN. The State Party has not yet done this, nor indicated the date the plan will be completed. IUCN and the World Heritage Centre consider that the management plan should be urgently completed.
The potential marine extension of the property should also be addressed through the management planning process as a high priority. It is therefore suggested that the State Party should be requested to complete a plan, and to then invite the requested monitoring mission by the World Heritage Centre and IUCN. Given the seasonal constraints in arranging such a mission, it is suggested that this should take place in July or August 2009.
Summary of the interventions
Decisions adopted by the Committee in 2008
32 COM 7B.26
Natural System of "Wrangel Island" Reserve (Russian Federation) (N 1023)
The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Document WHC-08/32.COM/7B,
2. Recalling Decision 28 COM 14B.14, adopted at its 28th session (Suzhou, 2004),
3. Regrets that there has been no reported progress made by the State Party in implementing the World Heritage Committee's decision at the time of inscription;
4. Requests the State Party to take the necessary steps to complete the management plan for the property as soon as possible, and send it in three copies to the World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies for review, before the 33rd session of the World Heritage Committee in 2009;
5. Further requests the State Party to submit to the World Heritage Centre, by 1 February 2009, a progress report on the above issues, for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 33rd session in 2009.
Draft Decision: 32 COM 7B.26
The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Document WHC-08/32.COM/7B,
2. Recalling Decision 28 COM 14B.14, adopted at its 28th session (Suzhou, 2004),
3. Regrets that there has been no reported progress made by the State Party in implementing the World Heritage Committee’s decision at the time of inscription;
4. Requests the State Party to take the necessary steps to complete the management plan for the property as soon as possible, and send it in three copies to the World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies for review, before the 33rd session of the World Heritage Committee in 2009;
5. Also requests the State Party to invite a joint World Heritage Centre / IUCN reactive monitoring mission to review progress on the implementation of the management plan;
6. Further requests the State Party to submit to the World Heritage Centre, by 1 February 2010, a progress report on the above issues, for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 34th session in 2010.
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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.
