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State of Conservation

380
Reports
274
Properties concerned
119
States Parties with SOC reports
Date Start: 2023close
States Parties: Republic of Korea
Year: 2023
Initialy proposed for examination in 2022
Document Source: WHC/23/45.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Management systems/ management plan
States Parties: United Republic of Tanzania
Year: 2023
Document Source: WHC/23/45.COM/7B.Add.2
Threats*: Erosion and siltation/ deposition Housing Illegal activities Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Management activities Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: Deterioration of the architectural heritage fabric
States Parties: Uganda
Year: 2023
Document Source: WHC/23/45.COM/7B.Add.2
Threats*: Fire (widlfires) Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Management systems/ management plan Mining Other climate change impacts
States Parties: Nepal
Year: 2023
Document Source: WHC/23/45.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Air pollution Forestry /wood production Illegal activities Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Input of excess energy Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure Mining Other climate change impacts Quarrying Solid waste Subsistence wild plant collection
Other Threats: Human-wildlife conflict
States Parties: Egypt
Year: 2023
Document Source: WHC/23/45.COM/7B.Add.2
Threats*: Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Management systems/ management plan
States Parties: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Year: 2023
Initialy proposed for examination in 2022
Document Source: WHC/23/45.COM/7B
Threats*: Civil unrest Illegal activities Indigenous hunting, gathering and collecting Management systems/ management plan Oil and gas War
States Parties: Uzbekistan
Year: 2023
Initialy proposed for examination in 2022
Document Source: WHC/23/45.COM/7B
Threats*: Ground transport infrastructure Housing Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure Management activities Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: Conservation of urban fabric
States Parties: Iraq
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7A
Threats*: Management systems/ management plan War
Other Threats: Weathering and lack of maintenance affecting the fragile structures Encroachment, urban sprawl and bulldozing activities
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Iraq
Year: 2023
Initialy proposed for examination in 2022
Document Source: WHC/23/45.COM/7A.Add.2
Threats*: Management systems/ management plan War
Other Threats: Weathering and lack of maintenance affecting the fragile structures
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: Portugal
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7B.Add.2
Threats*: Legal framework Low impact research / monitoring activities Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: Need to remove the terrace bar
States Parties: Sudan
Year: 2023
Document Source: WHC/23/45.COM/7B
Threats*: Financial resources Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: Need to establish a code of conduct including formal rules and regulations for all dive operators
States Parties: Central African Republic Congo Cameroon
Year: 2023
Document Source: WHC/23/45.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Civil unrest Forestry /wood production Ground transport infrastructure Illegal activities Major linear utilities Mining
States Parties: United Republic of Tanzania
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7A.Add.2
Threats*: Financial resources Forestry /wood production Illegal activities Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Invasive/alien terrestrial species Land conversion Legal framework Management systems/ management plan Mining Oil and gas Water infrastructure
Other Threats: Significant decline of wildlife populations due to poaching ; Need for increased involvement of local communities
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: United Republic of Tanzania
Year: 2023
Initialy proposed for examination in 2022
Document Source: WHC/23/45.COM/7A.Add.2
Threats*: Financial resources Forestry /wood production Illegal activities Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Land conversion Legal framework Management systems/ management plan Mining Oil and gas Water infrastructure
Other Threats: Significant decline of wildlife populations due to poaching ; Need for increased involvement of local communities
Danger List:  Yes
States Parties: United Republic of Tanzania
Year: 2024
Document Source: WHC/24/46.COM/7B.Add.3
Threats*: Air transport infrastructure Ground transport infrastructure Illegal activities Major linear utilities Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure Surface water pollution Water infrastructure
States Parties: United Republic of Tanzania
Year: 2023
Document Source: WHC/23/45.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Air transport infrastructure Drought Ground transport infrastructure Illegal activities Major linear utilities Water (extraction) Water infrastructure
States Parties: Chile
Year: 2023
Document Source: WHC/23/45.COM/7B
Threats*: Governance Housing Industrial areas Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: General maintenance, including for unprotected archaeological remains on the surface
States Parties: Japan
Year: 2023
Document Source: WHC/23/45.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Aquaculture Hyper-abundant species Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Management systems/ management plan Other climate change impacts Water infrastructure
States Parties: China Kyrgyzstan Kazakhstan
Year: 2023
Document Source: WHC/23/45.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Ground transport infrastructure Housing Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Management systems/ management plan
Other Threats: Comparative fragility of many sites
States Parties: Ethiopia
Year: 2023
Document Source: WHC/23/45.COM/7B
Threats*: Crop production Financial resources Governance Human resources Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community Illegal activities Land conversion Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals Major linear utilities Management systems/ management plan Other climate change impacts
Other Threats: Declining populations of Walia ibex, Ethiopian wolf and other large mammal species; Human wildlife conflicts
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Threats
Management systems/ management plan 282 Housing 141 Illegal activities 96 Ground transport infrastructure 84 Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation 84 Legal framework 75 Land conversion 59 Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure 53 Management activities 50 Mining 48 War 48 Financial resources 47 Human resources 47 Water infrastructure 44 Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community 38 Governance 38 Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals 30 Civil unrest 30 Invasive/alien terrestrial species 30 Commercial development 28 Interpretative and visitation facilities 26 Deliberate destruction of heritage 26 Water (rain/water table) 25 Erosion and siltation/ deposition 21 Surface water pollution 20 Solid waste 19 Fishing/collecting aquatic resources 19 Other climate change impacts 18 Effects arising from use of transportation infrastructure 17 Flooding 17 Oil and gas 16 Marine transport infrastructure 15 Forestry /wood production 15 Fire (widlfires) 15 Major linear utilities 13 Changes in traditional ways of life and knowledge system 13 Renewable energy facilities 12 Underground transport infrastructure 11 Earthquake 11 Society's valuing of heritage 10 Storms 10 Air transport infrastructure 9 Crop production 9 Non-renewable energy facilities 8 Quarrying 8 Desertification 8 Industrial areas 7 Ground water pollution 7 Water (extraction) 7 Changes to oceanic waters 7 Invasive / alien freshwater species 7 Air pollution 6 Commercial hunting 6 Relative humidity 6 Localised utilities 5 Subsistence hunting 5 Drought 5 High impact research / monitoring activities 5 Wind 4 Pollution of marine waters 3 Ritual / spiritual / religious and associative uses 3 Military training 3 Low impact research / monitoring activities 3 Input of excess energy 2 Indigenous hunting, gathering and collecting 2 Terrorism 2 Temperature change 2 Invasive / alien marine species 2 Translocated species 2 Aquaculture 1 Subsistence wild plant collection 1 Pests 1 Avalanche/ landslide 1 Hyper-abundant species 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.


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