State of Conservation
77
Reports
53
Properties concerned
30
States Parties with SOC reports
Date Start:
2023close
Region:
Africaclose
States Parties: | Senegal |
Year: | 2023 |
Document Source: | WHC/23/45.COM/7B.Add |
Threats*: | Housing Management activities Management systems/ management plan Water (rain/water table) |
Other Threats: | Extremely poor state of conservation of numerous derelict buildings endangering occupants |
States Parties: | Gabon |
Year: | 2024 |
Document Source: | WHC/24/46.COM/7B.Add |
Threats*: | Forestry /wood production Management systems/ management plan |
States Parties: | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Year: | 2024 |
Document Source: | WHC/24/46.COM/7A.Add.2 |
Threats*: | Civil unrest Commercial hunting Illegal activities Land conversion Mining War |
Other Threats: | Villages in the ecological corridor between the highland and lowland sectors of the park |
Danger List: | Yes |
States Parties: | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Year: |
2023
Initialy proposed for examination in 2022
|
Document Source: | WHC/23/45.COM/7A.Add |
Threats*: | Civil unrest Commercial hunting Illegal activities Land conversion Mining War |
Other Threats: | Villages in the ecological corridor between the highland and lowland sectors of the park |
Danger List: | Yes |
States Parties: | Kenya |
Year: |
2023
Initialy proposed for examination in 2022
|
Document Source: | WHC/23/45.COM/7B |
Threats*: | Governance Housing Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure Management systems/ management plan |
States Parties: | Benin Togo |
Year: | 2023 |
Document Source: | WHC/23/45.COM/7B.Add |
Threats*: | Financial resources Forestry /wood production Housing Legal framework Management systems/ management plan |
Other Threats: | Emergence of new forms of construction; Destruction of several Sikien during the 2018 rainy season |
States Parties: | Malawi |
Year: | 2023 |
Document Source: | WHC/23/45.COM/7B.Add |
Threats*: | Fishing/collecting aquatic resources Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community Illegal activities Invasive / alien freshwater species Management systems/ management plan Oil and gas Surface water pollution |
States Parties: | Kenya |
Year: | 2024 |
Document Source: | WHC/24/46.COM/7A.Add.2 |
Threats*: | Illegal activities Land conversion Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals Management systems/ management plan Oil and gas Water infrastructure |
Other Threats: | Conflict between local communities and park management |
Danger List: | Yes |
States Parties: | Kenya |
Year: |
2023
Initialy proposed for examination in 2022
|
Document Source: | WHC/23/45.COM/7A.Add |
Threats*: | Illegal activities Land conversion Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals Management systems/ management plan Oil and gas Water infrastructure |
Danger List: | Yes |
States Parties: | Kenya |
Year: | 2023 |
Document Source: | WHC/23/45.COM/7B.Add |
Threats*: | Air transport infrastructure Housing Land conversion Management systems/ management plan Marine transport infrastructure Non-renewable energy facilities Solid waste |
Other Threats: | Deterioration of dwellings |
States Parties: | Ethiopia |
Year: | 2023 |
Document Source: | WHC/23/45.COM/7B |
Threats*: | Erosion and siltation/ deposition Housing Industrial areas Land conversion Management systems/ management plan |
States Parties: | Lesotho South Africa |
Year: | 2023 |
Document Source: | WHC/23/45.COM/7B.Add |
Threats*: | Interpretative and visitation facilities Legal framework Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure Management activities Management systems/ management plan Oil and gas |
Other Threats: | Buffer zones not yet formalized |
States Parties: | Zimbabwe |
Year: | 2023 |
Document Source: | WHC/23/45.COM/7B.Add |
Threats*: | Illegal activities Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure Management systems/ management plan Mining |
States Parties: | Central African Republic |
Year: | 2024 |
Document Source: | WHC/24/46.COM/7A.Add |
Threats*: | Civil unrest Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community Illegal activities Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals Management systems/ management plan Mining Oil and gas |
Danger List: | Yes |
States Parties: | Central African Republic |
Year: |
2023
Initialy proposed for examination in 2022
|
Document Source: | WHC/23/45.COM/7A.Add |
Threats*: | Civil unrest Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community Illegal activities Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals Management systems/ management plan Mining Oil and gas |
Danger List: | Yes |
States Parties: | Zambia Zimbabwe |
Year: | 2024 |
Document Source: | WHC/24/46.COM/7B.Add.2 |
Threats*: | Air pollution Drought Housing Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Invasive/alien terrestrial species Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure Management systems/ management plan Solid waste Surface water pollution Water (extraction) Water infrastructure |
States Parties: | Zambia Zimbabwe |
Year: |
2023
Initialy proposed for examination in 2022
|
Document Source: | WHC/23/45.COM/7B.Add |
Threats*: | Air pollution Drought Housing Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Invasive/alien terrestrial species Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure Management systems/ management plan Solid waste Surface water pollution Water (extraction) Water infrastructure |
States Parties: | Côte d'Ivoire Guinea |
Year: | 2024 |
Document Source: | WHC/24/46.COM/7A.Add.2 |
Threats*: | Financial resources Ground transport infrastructure Human resources Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community Illegal activities Land conversion Management systems/ management plan Mining |
Danger List: | Yes |
States Parties: | Côte d'Ivoire Guinea |
Year: |
2023
Initialy proposed for examination in 2022
|
Document Source: | WHC/23/45.COM/7A.Add.2 |
Threats*: | Financial resources Ground transport infrastructure Human resources Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community Illegal activities Land conversion Management systems/ management plan Mining |
Danger List: | Yes |
States Parties: | United Republic of Tanzania |
Year: | 2024 |
Document Source: | WHC/24/46.COM/7B.Add.4 |
Threats*: | Crop production Governance Ground transport infrastructure Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community Illegal activities Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Interpretative and visitation facilities Invasive/alien terrestrial species Land conversion Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure Management activities Management systems/ management plan |
Other Threats: | Challenging situation of community livelihoods; Condition and conservation of the Laetoli hominid footprints |
States Parties
Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Congo Côte d'Ivoire Democratic Republic of the Congo Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Ghana Guinea Kenya Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritius Mozambique Niger Nigeria Senegal South Africa Togo Uganda United Republic of Tanzania Zambia ZimbabweThreats
Management systems/ management plan 60 Illegal activities 39 Mining 23 Land conversion 22 Housing 18 Ground transport infrastructure 18 Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals 18 Civil unrest 18 Financial resources 17 Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure 15 Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community 12 Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation 12 Human resources 12 Legal framework 12 Water infrastructure 11 Oil and gas 11 War 11 Interpretative and visitation facilities 9 Surface water pollution 9 Invasive/alien terrestrial species 9 Management activities 9 Solid waste 8 Forestry /wood production 8 Governance 8 Water (rain/water table) 7 Commercial development 5 Drought 5 Fire (widlfires) 5 Major linear utilities 4 Ground water pollution 4 Subsistence hunting 4 Deliberate destruction of heritage 4 Other climate change impacts 4 Erosion and siltation/ deposition 4 Invasive / alien freshwater species 4 Air transport infrastructure 3 Commercial hunting 3 Crop production 3 Fishing/collecting aquatic resources 3 Water (extraction) 3 Air pollution 2 Wind 2 Society's valuing of heritage 2 Terrorism 2 Changes to oceanic waters 2 Translocated species 2 Industrial areas 1 Marine transport infrastructure 1 Non-renewable energy facilities 1 Relative humidity 1 Indigenous hunting, gathering and collecting 1 Earthquake 1
* :
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.