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
Botswana Cameroon Central African Republic Côte d'Ivoire Democratic Republic of the Congo Ethiopia Guinea Kenya Madagascar Malawi Niger Senegal South Africa Uganda United Republic of Tanzania ZimbabweThreats
Illegal activities 17 Management systems/ management plan 13 Mining 10 Land conversion 7 Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals 7 Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community 6 Civil unrest 6 Water infrastructure 5 Oil and gas 5 War 4 Financial resources 4 Governance 4 Ground transport infrastructure 3 Other climate change impacts 3 Fire (widlfires) 3 Invasive/alien terrestrial species 3 Human resources 3 Major linear utilities 2 Commercial hunting 2 Forestry /wood production 2 Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation 2 Drought 2 Invasive / alien freshwater species 2 Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure 1 Air transport infrastructure 1 Surface water pollution 1 Crop production 1 Fishing/collecting aquatic resources 1 Subsistence hunting 1 Water (extraction) 1 Indigenous hunting, gathering and collecting 1 Society's valuing of heritage 1 Erosion and siltation/ deposition 1 Translocated species 1 Management activities 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.