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 Gabon 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 60 Illegal activities 39 Mining 23 Land conversion 22 Housing 18 Ground transport infrastructure 18 Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals 18 Civil unrest 18 Financial resources 17 Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure 15 Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community 12 Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation 12 Human resources 12 Legal framework 12 Water infrastructure 11 Oil and gas 11 War 11 Interpretative and visitation facilities 9 Surface water pollution 9 Invasive/alien terrestrial species 9 Management activities 9 Solid waste 8 Forestry /wood production 8 Governance 8 Water (rain/water table) 7 Commercial development 5 Drought 5 Fire (widlfires) 5 Major linear utilities 4 Ground water pollution 4 Subsistence hunting 4 Deliberate destruction of heritage 4 Other climate change impacts 4 Erosion and siltation/ deposition 4 Invasive / alien freshwater species 4 Air transport infrastructure 3 Commercial hunting 3 Crop production 3 Fishing/collecting aquatic resources 3 Water (extraction) 3 Air pollution 2 Wind 2 Society's valuing of heritage 2 Terrorism 2 Changes to oceanic waters 2 Translocated species 2 Industrial areas 1 Marine transport infrastructure 1 Non-renewable energy facilities 1 Relative humidity 1 Indigenous hunting, gathering and collecting 1 Earthquake 1
* :
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.