Serra da Capivara National Park
Factors affecting the property in 1994*
- Illegal activities
- Management systems/ management plan
- Other Threats:
Fire
International Assistance: requests for the property until 1994
Total amount approved : 43,000 USD
1993 | Protection of the paintings at Serra da Capivara: study ... (Approved) | 43,000 USD |
Missions to the property until 1994**
1994: UNDP/UNESCO Project mission
Conservation issues presented to the World Heritage Committee in 1994
[Oral report by the UNDP/UNESCO Regional Project to the World Heritage Committee]
Summary of the interventions
Decisions adopted by the Committee in 1994
18 COM IX
SOC: Serra da Capivara (Brazil)
Serra da Capivara (Brazil)
The UNDP/UNESCO Regional Project presented a report on this complex site that contains 380 sites of historical interest and where the greatest threats come from fire and poaching. Tourism, although in the increase, had not had a negative impact on the site yet. A zoning plan was being introduced which defined the degree of access to five different types of area with various levels of access.
The monitoring mission recommended that:
- the zoning plan should be extended so as to cover the whole area of the park and that buffer zones be established to limit the threats form fires;
- barriers be constructed at the more accessible sites to prevent visitors from damaging them and that interpretation panels should also be installed.
No draft Decision
* :
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.