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 Congo Côte d'Ivoire Democratic Republic of the Congo Ethiopia Guinea Kenya Madagascar Malawi Niger Senegal South Africa Uganda United Republic of Tanzania Zambia ZimbabweThreats
Illegal activities 21 Management systems/ management plan 19 Mining 15 Land conversion 10 Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals 10 Civil unrest 7 Water infrastructure 6 Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community 6 Ground transport infrastructure 5 Oil and gas 5 Financial resources 5 Governance 5 Forestry /wood production 4 War 4 Fire (widlfires) 4 Invasive/alien terrestrial species 4 Human resources 4 Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure 3 Major linear utilities 3 Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation 3 Drought 3 Other climate change impacts 3 Invasive / alien freshwater species 3 Housing 2 Surface water pollution 2 Commercial hunting 2 Fishing/collecting aquatic resources 2 Subsistence hunting 2 Water (extraction) 2 Air transport infrastructure 1 Air pollution 1 Solid waste 1 Crop production 1 Indigenous hunting, gathering and collecting 1 Society's valuing of heritage 1 Terrorism 1 Erosion and siltation/ deposition 1 Translocated species 1 Legal framework 1 Management activities 1
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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.