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 24 Mining 16 Housing 14 Land conversion 14 Civil unrest 12 Financial resources 11 Ground transport infrastructure 10 Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals 10 Human resources 9 Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure 8 Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation 8 Legal framework 8 Oil and gas 7 Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community 7 Management activities 7 Interpretative and visitation facilities 6 Water infrastructure 6 Water (rain/water table) 6 War 6 Governance 6 Solid waste 5 Forestry /wood production 5 Other climate change impacts 5 Surface water pollution 4 Invasive/alien terrestrial species 4 Commercial development 3 Drought 3 Erosion and siltation/ deposition 3 Fire (widlfires) 3 Invasive / alien freshwater species 3 Major linear utilities 2 Ground water pollution 2 Commercial hunting 2 Crop production 2 Fishing/collecting aquatic resources 2 Subsistence hunting 2 Water (extraction) 2 Society's valuing of heritage 2 Deliberate destruction of heritage 2 Industrial areas 1 Air transport infrastructure 1 Marine transport infrastructure 1 Non-renewable energy facilities 1 Air pollution 1 Relative humidity 1 Wind 1 Changes in traditional ways of life and knowledge system 1 Indigenous hunting, gathering and collecting 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.