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State of Conservation

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29
Properties concerned
21
States Parties with SOC reports
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Date Start: 2018close
Region: Africaclose
Salonga National Park (2019)
States Parties: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Year: 2019
Document Source: WHC/19/43.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Civil unrest Illegal activities Indigenous hunting, gathering and collecting Management systems/ management plan Oil and gas War
Danger List:  Yes
Salonga National Park (2018)
States Parties: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Civil unrest Illegal activities Indigenous hunting, gathering and collecting Management systems/ management plan Oil and gas War
Danger List:  Yes
Sangha Trinational (2023)
States Parties: Central African Republic Congo Cameroon
Year: 2023
Document Source: WHC/23/45.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Civil unrest Forestry /wood production Ground transport infrastructure Illegal activities Major linear utilities Mining
Sangha Trinational (2021)
States Parties: Central African Republic Congo Cameroon
Year: 2021
Document Source: WHC/21/44.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Civil unrest Forestry /wood production Ground transport infrastructure Illegal activities Major linear utilities Mining
Sangha Trinational (2019)
States Parties: Central African Republic Congo Cameroon
Year: 2019
Document Source: WHC/19/43.COM/7B
Threats*: Civil unrest Forestry /wood production Ground transport infrastructure Illegal activities Major linear utilities Mining
Selous Game Reserve (2024)
States Parties: United Republic of Tanzania
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7A.Add.2
Threats*: Financial resources Forestry /wood production Illegal activities Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Invasive/alien terrestrial species Land conversion Legal framework Management systems/ management plan Mining Oil and gas Water infrastructure
Other Threats: Significant decline of wildlife populations due to poaching ; Need for increased involvement of local communities
Danger List:  Yes
Selous Game Reserve (2023)
States Parties: United Republic of Tanzania
Year: 2023
Initialy proposed for examination in 2022
Document Source: WHC/23/45.COM/7A.Add.2
Threats*: Financial resources Forestry /wood production Illegal activities Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Land conversion Legal framework Management systems/ management plan Mining Oil and gas Water infrastructure
Other Threats: Significant decline of wildlife populations due to poaching ; Need for increased involvement of local communities
Danger List:  Yes
Selous Game Reserve (2021)
States Parties: United Republic of Tanzania
Year: 2021
Initialy proposed for examination in 2020
Document Source: WHC/21/44.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Financial resources Forestry /wood production Illegal activities Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Land conversion Legal framework Management systems/ management plan Mining Oil and gas Water infrastructure
Other Threats: Significant decline of wildlife populations due to poaching ; Need for increased involvement of local communities
Danger List:  Yes
Selous Game Reserve (2019)
States Parties: United Republic of Tanzania
Year: 2019
Document Source: WHC/19/43.COM/7A.add.2,WHC/19/43.COM/INF.7.Rev.4
Threats*: Financial resources Illegal activities Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Land conversion Legal framework Management systems/ management plan Mining Oil and gas Water infrastructure
Other Threats: Significant decline of wildlife populations due to poaching ; Need for increased involvement of local communities
Danger List:  Yes
Selous Game Reserve (2018)
States Parties: United Republic of Tanzania
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Financial resources Illegal activities Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Invasive/alien terrestrial species Management systems/ management plan Mining Oil and gas Water infrastructure
Other Threats: Significant decline of wildlife populations due to poaching
Danger List:  Yes
Serengeti National Park (2024)
States Parties: United Republic of Tanzania
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7B.Add.3
Threats*: Air transport infrastructure Ground transport infrastructure Illegal activities Major linear utilities Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure Surface water pollution Water infrastructure
Serengeti National Park (2023)
States Parties: United Republic of Tanzania
Year: 2023
Document Source: WHC/23/45.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Air transport infrastructure Drought Ground transport infrastructure Illegal activities Major linear utilities Water (extraction) Water infrastructure
Serengeti National Park (2021)
States Parties: United Republic of Tanzania
Year: 2021
Initialy proposed for examination in 2020
Document Source: WHC/21/44.COM/7B
Threats*: Air transport infrastructure Drought Ground transport infrastructure Illegal activities Major linear utilities Water (extraction) Water infrastructure
Serengeti National Park (2018)
States Parties: United Republic of Tanzania
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B
Threats*: Air transport infrastructure Drought Ground transport infrastructure Illegal activities Major linear utilities Water (extraction) Water infrastructure
Simien National Park (2023)
States Parties: Ethiopia
Year: 2023
Document Source: WHC/23/45.COM/7B
Threats*: Crop production Financial resources Governance Human resources Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community Illegal activities Land conversion Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals Major linear utilities Management systems/ management plan Other climate change impacts
Other Threats: Declining populations of Walia ibex, Ethiopian wolf and other large mammal species; Human wildlife conflicts
Simien National Park (2021)
States Parties: Ethiopia
Year: 2021
Initialy proposed for examination in 2020
Document Source: WHC/21/44.COM/7B
Threats*: Crop production Financial resources Governance Human resources Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community Illegal activities Land conversion Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals Major linear utilities Management systems/ management plan Other climate change impacts
Other Threats: Declining populations of Walia ibex, Ethiopian wolf and other large mammal species; Human wildlife conflicts;
Simien National Park (2018)
States Parties: Ethiopia
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7B
Threats*: Crop production Financial resources Governance Human resources Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community Illegal activities Land conversion Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals Major linear utilities Management systems/ management plan Other climate change impacts
Other Threats: Declining populations of Walia ibex, Ethiopian wolf and other large mammal species; Human wildlife conflicts;
Taï National Park (2021)
States Parties: Côte d'Ivoire
Year: 2021
Document Source: WHC/21/44.COM/7B
Threats*: Illegal activities Mining
Taï National Park (2019)
States Parties: Côte d'Ivoire
Year: 2019
Document Source: WHC/19/43.COM/7B
Threats*: Illegal activities Mining
Virunga National Park (2024)
States Parties: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Civil unrest Ground transport infrastructure Illegal activities Land conversion Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals Oil and gas War
Danger List:  Yes
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Threats
Illegal activities 86 Management systems/ management plan 70 Mining 57 Land conversion 40 Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals 40 Civil unrest 32 Water infrastructure 27 Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community 26 Oil and gas 24 Ground transport infrastructure 22 War 19 Financial resources 19 Invasive/alien terrestrial species 17 Forestry /wood production 16 Governance 16 Human resources 16 Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation 12 Drought 12 Fire (widlfires) 12 Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure 11 Major linear utilities 10 Surface water pollution 10 Commercial hunting 9 Invasive / alien freshwater species 9 Subsistence hunting 8 Other climate change impacts 8 Housing 7 Water (extraction) 7 Fishing/collecting aquatic resources 6 Society's valuing of heritage 5 Erosion and siltation/ deposition 5 Translocated species 5 Management activities 5 Air transport infrastructure 4 Air pollution 4 Solid waste 4 Indigenous hunting, gathering and collecting 4 Legal framework 4 Crop production 3 Terrorism 3 Ground water pollution 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.


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