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States Parties with SOC reports
Date Start: 2024close
Date end:2024close
States Parties: Senegal
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7A.Add.3
Threats*: Drought Ground transport infrastructure Ground water pollution Illegal activities Invasive/alien terrestrial species Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals Mining Surface water pollution Translocated species Water infrastructure
Other Threats: Loss of chimpanzee habitat
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Belgium
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7B
Threats*: Interpretative and visitation facilities Management systems/ management plan
States Parties: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Ground transport infrastructure Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community Illegal activities Mining
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Yemen
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Civil unrest Commercial development Desertification Housing Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community Land conversion Management activities War Water infrastructure
Other Threats: Functional decay of the residential neighborhoods; Physical damage and instability of buildings; Problems with the network for the evacuation of rainwater
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Sri Lanka
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7B
Threats*: Commercial development Illegal activities Management systems/ management plan Marine transport infrastructure
States Parties: Libya
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7A
Threats*: Financial resources Fire (widlfires) Human resources Management systems/ management plan War Water (rain/water table)
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Mali
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7A
Threats*: Civil unrest Housing Land conversion Management systems/ management plan Solid waste
Other Threats: Deterioration of dwellings
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Yemen
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Civil unrest Financial resources Human resources War Water (rain/water table)
Other Threats: Damage to historic buildings
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Nigeria
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7B.Add.3
Threats*: Fire (widlfires) Ground transport infrastructure Housing Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure Surface water pollution
Other Threats: Fragility of spiritual, symbolic and ritual qualities of the Grove in the face of a growth in visitor numbers; Inappropriate restoration and reconstruction
States Parties: France
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7B.Add
Other Threats: Fire
States Parties: Kiribati
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7B
Threats*: Fishing/collecting aquatic resources
Other Threats: Degradation of seamounts
States Parties: Lebanon
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7A
Threats*: Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: - state of critical conservation conditions and need for emergency stabilisation measures - vulnerability to potential inappropriate developments
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Madagascar
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Fire (widlfires) Governance Illegal activities Land conversion Mining Society's valuing of heritage Subsistence hunting
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Honduras
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7A
Threats*: Financial resources Human resources Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community Illegal activities Invasive/alien terrestrial species Land conversion Legal framework Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals Management systems/ management plan Water infrastructure
Other Threats: Overlap with important archaeological sites implying a need to harmonize management of cultural and natural heritage
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Libya
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7A
Threats*: Deliberate destruction of heritage Human resources Illegal activities Management systems/ management plan War
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Romania
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Management systems/ management plan Mining
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Republic of Korea
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7B
Threats*: Commercial development Housing Management systems/ management plan
States Parties: Iraq
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7A
Threats*: Management systems/ management plan War
Other Threats: Weathering and lack of maintenance affecting the fragile structures Encroachment, urban sprawl and bulldozing activities
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Portugal
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7B.Add.2
Threats*: Legal framework Low impact research / monitoring activities Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: Need to remove the terrace bar
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
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Management systems/ management plan 85 Housing 48 Illegal activities 38 Ground transport infrastructure 30 Legal framework 27 War 26 Land conversion 22 Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation 22 Financial resources 17 Human resources 17 Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure 16 Water infrastructure 16 Management activities 16 Mining 15 Civil unrest 13 Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals 12 Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community 12 Deliberate destruction of heritage 12 Invasive/alien terrestrial species 12 Surface water pollution 11 Governance 10 Commercial development 9 Flooding 9 Erosion and siltation/ deposition 9 Water (rain/water table) 8 Fishing/collecting aquatic resources 7 Interpretative and visitation facilities 6 Solid waste 6 Other climate change impacts 6 Earthquake 6 Fire (widlfires) 6 Renewable energy facilities 5 Forestry /wood production 5 Desertification 5 Effects arising from use of transportation infrastructure 4 Marine transport infrastructure 4 Major linear utilities 4 Oil and gas 4 Society's valuing of heritage 4 Storms 4 Air transport infrastructure 3 Underground transport infrastructure 3 Localised utilities 3 Ground water pollution 3 Crop production 3 Relative humidity 3 Changes in traditional ways of life and knowledge system 3 Changes to oceanic waters 3 Industrial areas 2 Non-renewable energy facilities 2 Air pollution 2 Pollution of marine waters 2 Subsistence hunting 2 Quarrying 2 Wind 2 Drought 2 Invasive / alien freshwater species 2 Low impact research / monitoring activities 2 Commercial hunting 1 Water (extraction) 1 Indigenous hunting, gathering and collecting 1 Ritual / spiritual / religious and associative uses 1 Military training 1 Terrorism 1 Temperature change 1 Invasive / alien marine species 1 Translocated species 1 High impact research / monitoring activities 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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