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 Congo Côte d'Ivoire Democratic Republic of the Congo Ethiopia Guinea Kenya Madagascar Malawi Niger Senegal South Africa Uganda United Republic of Tanzania Zambia ZimbabweThreats
Illegal activities 19 Management systems/ management plan 18 Mining 14 Land conversion 9 Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals 9 Civil unrest 7 Water infrastructure 6 Oil and gas 6 Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community 6 Ground transport infrastructure 5 Forestry /wood production 4 War 4 Financial resources 4 Governance 4 Human resources 4 Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure 3 Major linear utilities 3 Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation 3 Drought 3 Invasive / alien freshwater species 3 Invasive/alien terrestrial species 3 Housing 2 Surface water pollution 2 Commercial hunting 2 Fishing/collecting aquatic resources 2 Subsistence hunting 2 Water (extraction) 2 Other climate change impacts 2 Fire (widlfires) 2 Air transport infrastructure 1 Air pollution 1 Solid waste 1 Crop production 1 Indigenous hunting, gathering and collecting 1 Society's valuing of heritage 1 Terrorism 1 Erosion and siltation/ deposition 1 Translocated species 1 Legal framework 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.