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World Heritage 40 COM WHC/16/40.COM/INF.8B4 Istanbul, 11 July 2016 Original: English / French UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE Fortieth session Istanbul, Turkey 10 - 20 July 2016 Item 8 of the Provisional Agenda: Establishment of the World Heritage List and of the List of World Heritage in Danger INF.8B4: Factual errors letters SUMMARY This document contains the factual errors notifications received from States Parties by 24 June 2016 in compliance with paragraph 150 of the Operational Guidelines. Alphabetical list by State Party of notifications of factual errors in the evaluation reports of the Advisory Bodies relating to nominations to be examined at the 40th session of the World Heritage Committee (Istanbul, Turkey, 10 - 20 July 2016) State Party World Heritage nomination ID No. Recommen. Pp NATURAL SITES Canada Mistaken Point 1497 I 2 China Hubei Shennongjia 1509 I 3 France Tectono-volcanic Ensemble of the Chaine des Puys and Limagne 1434 Rev N 7 Fault Iran (Islamic Republic of) Lut Desert 1505 R 21 Mexico Archipiélago de Revillagigedo 1510 I 24 Sudan Sanganeb Marine National Park and Dungonab Bay - Mukkawar 262 Rev R 26 Island Marine National Park Thailand Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex 1461 Rev R 29 Turkmenistan Mountain Ecosystems of Koytendag 1521 N 30 MIXED SITES Canada Pimachiowin Aki 1415 Rev I / I 36 / 37 Chad Ennedi Massif: Natural and Cultural Landscape 1475 D / D 40 / 47 India Khangchendzonga National Park 1513 I / I 57 / 58 Iraq The Ahwar of Southern Iraq: Refuge of Biodiversity and the Relict 1481 D / D 61 / 62 Landscape of the Mesopotamian Cities CULTURAL SITES Argentina / Belgium / The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution 1321 Rev I 65 France / Germany / India to the Modern Movement / Japan / Switzerland Bosnia and Herzegovina Stećci – Medieval Tombstones 1504 D 73 / Croatia / Montenegro / Serbia China Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art Cultural Landscape 1508 I 74 Greece Archaeological Site of Philippi 1517 I 76 India Excavated remains of Nalanda Mahavihara 1502 D 79 Iran (Islamic Republic of) The Persian Qanat 1506 D 81 Micronesia (Federated Nan Madol: Ceremonial Centre of Eastern Micronesia 1503 I 83 States of) Turkey Archaeological Site of Ani 1518 D 85 United Kingdom of Great Gibraltar Neanderthal Caves and Environments 1500 I 90 Britain and Northern Ireland United States of America Key Works of Modern Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright 1496 D 93 Minor boundary modifications State Party World Heritage nomination ID No. Recommen. Pp Japan Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range 1142 Bis OK 96 Factual errors notifications are presented in the language in which they have been submitted by the State Party Factual errors letters WHC/16/40.COM/INF.8B4 p. 1 ONIO MU M ND RI T IA A L • P • W L O A I R FORM FOR THE SUBMISSION OF D L D N H O E M R I E T IN AG O E • PATRIM FACTUAL ERRORS IN United Nations World Heritage THE ADVISORY BODIES EVALUATIONS Cultural Organization Convention (in compliance with Paragraph 150 of the Operational Guidelines) STATE(S) PARTY(IES): Canada EVALUATION OF THE NOMINATION OF THE SITE: Mistaken Point RELEVANT ADVISORY BODY’S EVALUATION: IUCN Page, column, Sentence including the Proposed correction by the Comment (if any) by the line of the factual error State Party Advisory Body and/or the Advisory Body (the factual error should be World Heritage Centre Evaluation highlighted in bold) P. 56; LC; Para. 4 – Since they have no shells or hard parts This statement is incorrect with respect to Factual error final sentence they are only preserved in anoxic, Ediacaran fauna and therefore should be quiet-water environments. deleted. Delete this sentence as proposed by the State Party. P. 57; RC; Para. 4; A Fossil Protection Zone overlays the A Fossil Protection Zone, overlays the Not a factual error final sentence nominated area and extends further nominated area and extends further landward some 15 meters to account landward some 15 meters. This Zone Clarification for the retreating profile over time. serves to provide additional security for IUCN has no objection to the the property’s fossil-bearing strata and amendment which provides enhance visitor safety. additional information regarding the rationale for the inland boundary. P. 58: LC; Para. 4 As noted above, a Fossil Protection As noted above, the nominated Not a factual error Zone has been established to provide property’s buffer zone has been dynamic protection. established to provide dynamic protection. Clarification IUCN agrees this would be a more precise reference for the Committee in understanding the proposal regarding the buffer zone. P. 59; LC; Para. 1 The Interpretive Centre, Interpretive The Interpretive Centre is owned and Not a factual error Guide Team, and the Fossil operated by Cape Race-PCS Heritage Inc. Guardian Team are all created and Volunteers drawn from local communities Clarification. run by the local community. comprise the nominated property’s Fossil IUCN was noting that these aspects Guardians Team. are provided by local stakeholders, rather than the State Party. The precision in the SP is helpful. P. 61; LC Para. 3. Monitoring processes should trigger Monitoring processes should trigger Not a factual error Lines 8-11. appropriately considered management appropriately considered management responses to document fossil evidence, responses if any significant losses due to Clarification if any significant losses from erosion erosion are identified at specific fossil The State Party addition adds further are identified. sites. precision but does not change the factual point. P. 55; LC; Para. ‘c’. “Liu, A.G., D. and…”;“Naborne” “Liu, A.G., and …”; “Narbonne” Factual error - typographic error L 13 ; Line 15 Factual errors letters WHC/16/40.COM/INF.8B4 p. 2 ONIO MU M ND RI T IA A L • P • W L O A I R D L D N H O E M FORM FOR THE SUBMISSION OF R I E T IN AG O E • PATRIM United Nations World FACTUAL ERRORS IN Heritage Cultural Organization Convention THE ADVISORY BODIES EVALUATIONS (in compliance with Paragraph 150 of the Operational Guidelines) STATE(S) PARTY(IES): China EVALUATION OF THE NOMINATION OF THE SITE: Hubei Shennongjia RELEVANT ADVISORY BODY’S EVALUATION: IUCN Page, Sentence including the factual Proposed correction by Comment (if any) by the column, error the State Party Advisory Body and/or the World line of the (the factual error should be Heritage Centre Advisory highlighted in bold) Body Evaluation Page 5, Ying JS (2001). Species diversity and Ying JS (2001). Species diversity Not a factual error column 1, line distribution pattern of seed plants in China. and distribution pattern of seed 36 Biodiv Sci 9, 393 398 (in Chinese with an plants in China. Biodiv Sci 9, 393- English abstract). 398 (in Chinese with an English abstract). Page 6, Shennongjia National Nature Reserve in Shennongjia National Nature Factual error column 1, line Fang County and Shennongjia Forestry Reserve in Shennongjia Forestry 17 District District The maps in the nomination don’t allow this to be checked, but IUCN accepts the deletion. Page 6, Mt. Shennongjia, at 3,206m is the highest Mt. Shennongjia, at 3,106m is the Factual error - typographic error column 1, line peak in central China and the surrounding highest peak in central China and 41 terrain protects a diversity of karst and the surrounding terrain protects a fluvial landforms with geomorphology diversity of karst and fluvial derived from glacial and tectonic landforms with geomorphology influences. derived from glacial and tectonic influences. Page 6, The region is considered to be one of three The region is considered to be one Clarification column 1, line centres of biodiversity in China: the of three centres of endemic plant 47 Hengduan; Southern China; and Central species in China: the Hengduan; IUCN considers a better wording for this China (Shennongjia) regions Lingnan; and Central China clarification would be to refer to “three (Shennongjia) regions centres of plant diversity with high levels of endemism” (see for instance Tang, C. (2015). The Lingnan region is in Southern China. Page 6, years. The nominated property includes 13 years. The nominated property New information which contradicts column 2, line types of vegetation and an intact altitudinal includes 11 types of vegetation and information provided at earlier stages of the 6 vegetation spectrum across six gradients an intact altitudinal vegetation evaluation. including evergreen spectrum across six gradients including evergreen The nomination dossier notes there are 11 vegetation types (p 81). The supplementary information of November 2015 notes the Badong County has 10 vegetation types (p45) and all of these are the same as occur within Hubei Shennongjia as originally nominated so it is hard to see how this information allows us to conclude there are two additional vegetation types added in Factual errors letters WHC/16/40.COM/INF.8B4 p. 3 Badong. IUCN Comment: The SP has updated a lot of the species data below. Some of these figures were documented in the earlier supplementary information of November 2015 after the mission when they added the Badong County area. With the exception of some noted factual errors (some of which are the same error repeated) IUCN proposes that these details should be checked directly between IUCN and the State Party, and any necessary amends made to the Statement of OUV in the draft decision for the nominated property. Page 6, 3,644 vascular plant species have been 3,767 vascular plant species have Factual error/clarification – proposed to be column 2, line recorded in the nominated property, an been recorded in the nominated further checked between IUCN and the State 27-35 impressive 12.5% of China's total flora.