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 Gabon Guinea Kenya Madagascar Malawi Niger Senegal South Africa Uganda United Republic of Tanzania Zambia ZimbabweThreats
Illegal activities 53 Management systems/ management plan 46 Mining 37 Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals 26 Land conversion 25 Civil unrest 19 Water infrastructure 17 Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community 16 Ground transport infrastructure 15 Oil and gas 15 Financial resources 13 Forestry /wood production 11 War 11 Invasive/alien terrestrial species 11 Human resources 11 Governance 10 Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure 8 Surface water pollution 8 Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation 8 Drought 8 Major linear utilities 7 Fire (widlfires) 7 Invasive / alien freshwater species 7 Subsistence hunting 6 Housing 5 Commercial hunting 5 Fishing/collecting aquatic resources 5 Water (extraction) 5 Other climate change impacts 5 Air transport infrastructure 3 Air pollution 3 Solid waste 3 Society's valuing of heritage 3 Terrorism 3 Erosion and siltation/ deposition 3 Translocated species 3 Legal framework 3 Management activities 3 Crop production 2 Indigenous hunting, gathering and collecting 2 Ground water pollution 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.