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 Eritrea Ethiopia Ghana Guinea Kenya Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritius Mozambique Niger Nigeria Senegal South Africa Togo Uganda United Republic of Tanzania Zambia ZimbabweThreats
Management systems/ management plan 43 Illegal activities 26 Mining 16 Land conversion 15 Housing 13 Financial resources 12 Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals 11 Ground transport infrastructure 10 Civil unrest 10 Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure 9 Human resources 8 Legal framework 8 Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community 7 Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation 7 Governance 7 Management activities 7 Interpretative and visitation facilities 6 Water infrastructure 6 Oil and gas 6 War 6 Solid waste 5 Forestry /wood production 5 Water (rain/water table) 5 Other climate change impacts 5 Fire (widlfires) 5 Invasive/alien terrestrial species 5 Surface water pollution 4 Commercial development 3 Major linear utilities 3 Drought 3 Erosion and siltation/ deposition 3 Invasive / alien freshwater species 3 Air transport infrastructure 2 Ground water pollution 2 Commercial hunting 2 Crop production 2 Fishing/collecting aquatic resources 2 Subsistence hunting 2 Water (extraction) 2 Deliberate destruction of heritage 2 Industrial areas 1 Marine transport infrastructure 1 Non-renewable energy facilities 1 Air pollution 1 Relative humidity 1 Wind 1 Indigenous hunting, gathering and collecting 1 Society's valuing of heritage 1 Terrorism 1 Changes to oceanic waters 1 Earthquake 1 Translocated species 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.