State of Conservation
Category of site
Cultural site Natural site Mixed site
Site inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
Cultural site Natural site Mixed site
States Parties
Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Congo Côte d'Ivoire Democratic Republic of the Congo Ethiopia Guinea Kenya Madagascar Malawi Niger Senegal Seychelles South Africa Uganda United Republic of Tanzania Zambia ZimbabweThreats
Illegal activities 348 Management systems/ management plan 208 Mining 172 Civil unrest 151 Land conversion 134 Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community 131 Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals 116 Financial resources 96 War 91 Ground transport infrastructure 87 Water infrastructure 63 Human resources 57 Oil and gas 39 Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation 32 Fire (widlfires) 32 Forestry /wood production 29 Commercial hunting 24 Fishing/collecting aquatic resources 24 Drought 21 Invasive/alien terrestrial species 21 Crop production 20 Housing 17 Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure 17 Subsistence hunting 17 Surface water pollution 16 Erosion and siltation/ deposition 16 Indigenous hunting, gathering and collecting 14 Invasive / alien freshwater species 14 Water (extraction) 13 Translocated species 13 Management activities 12 Major linear utilities 10 Water (rain/water table) 10 Governance 9 Air pollution 7 Other climate change impacts 7 Legal framework 7 Air transport infrastructure 4 Deliberate destruction of heritage 4 Avalanche/ landslide 4 Input of excess energy 3 Solid waste 3 Society's valuing of heritage 3 Effects arising from use of transportation infrastructure 2 Renewable energy facilities 2 Volcanic eruption 2
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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.