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State of Conservation

474
Reports
65
Properties concerned
30
States Parties with SOC reports
Date Start: 2010close
Region: Africaclose
States Parties: South Africa
Year: 2021
Document Source: WHC/21/44.COM/7B
Threats*: Ground water pollution Interpretative and visitation facilities Management systems/ management plan Mining Other climate change impacts Surface water pollution Water (rain/water table)
Other Threats: Acid mine drainage
States Parties: South Africa
Year: 2019
Document Source: WHC/19/43.COM/7B,WHC/19/43.COM/INF.7.Rev.4
Threats*: Ground water pollution Mining Other climate change impacts Surface water pollution Water (rain/water table)
Other Threats: Acid mine drainage
States Parties: South Africa
Year: 2017
Document Source: WHC/17/41.COM/7B
Threats*: Ground water pollution Mining Surface water pollution Water (rain/water table)
Other Threats: Acid mine drainage; Climate change and severe weather events
States Parties: South Africa
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Ground water pollution Mining Surface water pollution
Other Threats: Acid mine drainage
States Parties: South Africa
Year: 2013
Document Source: WHC-13/37.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Ground water pollution Mining Surface water pollution
Other Threats: Acid mine drainage
States Parties: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7A.Add.2
Threats*: Civil unrest Illegal activities Management systems/ management plan War
Other Threats: Probable extinction of the northern white rhinoceros subspecies within the property
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 Illegal activities Management systems/ management plan War
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Year: 2021
Initialy proposed for examination in 2020
Document Source: WHC/21/44.COM/7A
Threats*: Civil unrest Illegal activities War
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Year: 2019
Document Source: WHC/19/43.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Civil unrest Illegal activities Management systems/ management plan War
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Year: 2018
Document Source: WHC/18/42.COM/7A
Threats*: Civil unrest Illegal activities Management systems/ management plan War
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Year: 2017
Document Source: WHC/17/41.COM/7A
Threats*: Civil unrest Illegal activities Management systems/ management plan War
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Year: 2016
Document Source: WHC/16/40.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Civil unrest Illegal activities Management systems/ management plan War
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7A,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7Rev
Threats*: Civil unrest Illegal activities Management systems/ management plan War
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Year: 2014
Document Source: WHC-14/38.COM/7A
Threats*: Civil unrest Illegal activities Management activities War
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Year: 2013
Document Source: WHC-13/37.COM/7A
Threats*: Civil unrest Human resources Illegal activities Management activities War
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Year: 2012
Document Source: WHC-12/36.COM/7A
Threats*: Civil unrest Human resources Illegal activities Management activities War
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Year: 2011
Document Source: WHC-11/35.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Civil unrest Illegal activities Management systems/ management plan War
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Year: 2010
Document Source: WHC-10/34.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Civil unrest Human resources Illegal activities Management systems/ management plan War
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Niger
Year: 2016
Document Source: WHC/16/40.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Low impact research / monitoring activities Management systems/ management plan
States Parties: Niger
Year: 2014
Document Source: WHC-14/38.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: Need to describe in a unified and practical form the indicators for monitoring the property and the results of their application
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Threats
Management systems/ management plan 313 Illegal activities 249 Mining 146 Land conversion 136 Housing 110 Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals 108 Civil unrest 108 Ground transport infrastructure 83 War 82 Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community 79 Financial resources 78 Human resources 66 Management activities 65 Water infrastructure 63 Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation 60 Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure 57 Oil and gas 56 Solid waste 44 Legal framework 42 Invasive/alien terrestrial species 41 Erosion and siltation/ deposition 36 Fire (widlfires) 36 Water (rain/water table) 35 Governance 35 Surface water pollution 32 Interpretative and visitation facilities 29 Forestry /wood production 29 Drought 28 Deliberate destruction of heritage 27 Major linear utilities 21 Commercial hunting 18 Crop production 18 Subsistence hunting 16 Other climate change impacts 16 Industrial areas 15 Marine transport infrastructure 15 Water (extraction) 15 Invasive / alien freshwater species 14 Indigenous hunting, gathering and collecting 13 Translocated species 13 Air transport infrastructure 11 Commercial development 10 Ground water pollution 10 Air pollution 8 Fishing/collecting aquatic resources 8 Society's valuing of heritage 7 Relative humidity 5 Earthquake 5 Wind 4 Changes to oceanic waters 4 Non-renewable energy facilities 3 Renewable energy facilities 3 Terrorism 3 Flooding 3 Effects arising from use of transportation infrastructure 2 Subsistence wild plant collection 1 Storms 1 Low 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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