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 32 Management systems/ management plan 27 Mining 22 Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals 16 Land conversion 15 Civil unrest 12 Water infrastructure 11 Ground transport infrastructure 10 Oil and gas 10 Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community 10 Financial resources 8 Forestry /wood production 7 War 7 Invasive/alien terrestrial species 7 Human resources 7 Surface water pollution 6 Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure 5 Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation 5 Drought 5 Governance 5 Major linear utilities 4 Subsistence hunting 4 Invasive / alien freshwater species 4 Housing 3 Commercial hunting 3 Fishing/collecting aquatic resources 3 Water (extraction) 3 Fire (widlfires) 3 Air transport infrastructure 2 Air pollution 2 Solid waste 2 Society's valuing of heritage 2 Terrorism 2 Other climate change impacts 2 Erosion and siltation/ deposition 2 Translocated species 2 Legal framework 2 Management activities 2 Ground water pollution 1 Crop production 1 Indigenous hunting, gathering and collecting 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.