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Reactive Monitoring Mission to Volcanoes of Kamchatka Russian Federation 29 August – 7 September 2007 World Heritage 32 COM Patrimoine mondial Paris, 20 May / mai 2007 Original: English Distribution limited / limitée UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION ORGANISATION DES NATIONS UNIES POUR L'EDUCATION, LA SCIENCE ET LA CULTURE CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE CONVENTION CONCERNANT LA PROTECTION DU PATRIMOINE MONDIAL, CULTUREL ET NATUREL WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE / COMITE DU PATRIMOINE MONDIAL Thirty-second session / Trente deuxième session Quebec, Canada / Quebec, Canada 2 -10 July 2008 / 2-10 juillet 2008 Item 7 of the Provisional Agenda: State of conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List and/or on the List of World Heritage in Danger. Point 7 de l’Ordre du jour provisoire: Etat de conservation de biens inscrits sur la Liste du patrimoine mondial et/ou sur la Liste du patrimoine mondial en péril MISSION REPORT / RAPPORT DE MISSION Volcanoes of Kamchatka (Russian Federation) (N 765 bis) / Volcans du Kamchatka (Fédération de Russie) (N 765 bis) 29 August - 7 September 2007 / 29 Août – 7 Septembre 2007 This mission report should be read in conjunction with Document: Ce rapport de mission doit être lu conjointement avec le document suivant: WHC-07/31.COM/7A WHC-07/31.COM/7A.Add WHC-07/31.COM/7B WHC-07/31.COM/7B.Add UNESCO World Heritage Centre – IUCN MISSION REPORT Reactive Monitoring Mission to Volcanoes of Kamchatka Russian Federation 29 August – 7 September 2007 Guy Debonnet (UNESCO World Heritage Centre) David Mihalic (Consultant IUCN) November 2007 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Mission team would like to thank the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) of the Russian Federation, in particular Mr. Evgeny Gorschkov, head of the international department, and the Regional Administration from the Kamchatka Krai, in particular Vice Governor Vladimir Rybak, for the organisation of the mission. The team would also like to especially mention Mrs. Olga Krever of MNR and Mrs. Alevzina Poletaeva of Kamchatka Krai Administration, who accompanied the mission throughout its stay in Kamchatka, facilitated meetings with various experts, government officials, and stakeholders interested in the conservation and assisted in clarifying many of the complex issues. The mission team would also like to acknowledge with great appreciation support made available by the UNDP/GEF project “Demonstrating sustainable conservation of biodiversity in Kamchatka region”, which provided air and land transport helped organize the field visit, made arrangements and facilitated many of the meetings. Special thanks also to Mr. Nikolai Maleshin, project manager and Mr. Andrey Starikov, project assistant for the UNDP/GEF project. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS..................................................................................................................... 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS........................................................................................................................ 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...................................................................................................................... 4 1. BACKGROUND TO THE MISSION .................................................................................................. 7 2. INSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK.................................................................................. 8 3. IDENTIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT OF MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION ISSUES ....... 9 3.1 Management Issues ................................................................................................................... 9 3.1.1 Management regime, legal status and jurisdiction over the Property................................... 9 3.1.2 Management Planning ...................................................................................................... 10 3.1.3 Boundaries of the Property................................................................................................12 3.1.4 Staffing and Budget........................................................................................................... 12 3.1.5 Tourism and visitor services management ........................................................................ 14 3.1.6 Management of the impact of the June 2007 landslide in the Valley of Geysers (KSNR) .. 16 3.2 Conservation Issues ................................................................................................................. 17 3.2.1 Mining................................................................................................................................ 17 3.2.2 Salmon Poaching .............................................................................................................. 18 3.2.2 Roads and access............................................................................................................. 19 3.2.4 Other conservation issues.................................................................................................20 4. ASSESMENT OF THE STATE OF CONSERVATION OF THE PROPERTY ................................. 23 5. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................................................... 24 Management of the Property .......................................................................................................... 24 Conservation issues ....................................................................................................................... 25 ANNEXES .......................................................................................................................................... 26 Annex 1: Decisions of the World Heritage Committee at its 30th and 31st session .......................... 27 Annex 2 Terms of Reference of the mission................................................................................... 28 Annex 3: Itinerary and programme of the mission .......................................................................... 29 Annex 4: Maps ............................................................................................................................... 31 Map 4.1 Geograpfical situation of the 6 components of the property.......................................... 31 Map 4.2 Zoning in KSNR............................................................................................................ 32 Map 4.3 Zoning in SKWR........................................................................................................... 33 Map 4.4: Zoning in BNP ............................................................................................................. 34 Map 4.5: Zoning in NNP ............................................................................................................. 35 Map 4.6 Road and ATV tracks in BNP ....................................................................................... 36 Map 4.7 of BNP showing boundaries of important mineral deposits ............................................... 37 Map 4.8 of NNP showing boundaries of important hydrothermal deposits.................................. 37 Annex 5: Acronyms ........................................................................................................................ 38 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY From 30 August to 07 September 2007 a joint UNESCO/IUCN monitoring mission visited the Volcanoes of Kamchatka World Heritage Property in accordance with the decision 30 COM 7B.25 of the World Heritage Committee taken in July 2006 (Vilnius, Lithuania). The mission had discussions in Moscow with officials of the federal ministry of natural resources (MNR), the Director and staff of the UNESCO Moscou office and stakeholders and then travelled to Kamchatka Krai, where it was able to conduct field visits to four of the six components of the serial Property: Kronotskiy biosphere reserve (KSNR), South Kamchatka Nature Park (SKNP), Bystrinskiy Nature Park (BNP) and Nalychevo Nature Park (NNP). The mission team also met with Kamchatskiy regional administration officials, staff of the UNDP-GEF project in support of four of the six sites, several site managers and field staff, scientists, representatives of indigenous groups and a wide range of stakeholders including NGOs. At the end of the mission two debriefings were given to regional authorities including the Vice-Governor, federal and regional authorities as well as the Vice Minister of MNR and other ministry officials who were visiting. The mission team found that the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) for which the Volcanoes of Kamchatka were inscribed on the World Heritage List is still present. Moreover, the mission team noted that these values are, for the moment, not imminently threatened. Nevertheless, the mission identified some important issues related to the management and integrity of the Property, which if not addressed by the State Party in the near term (2-3 years) may jeopardize in the future its OUV and the fulfillment of the Conditions of Integrity. Concerns were raised about the current management regime of the 4 regional nature parks included in the Property, of which the protection status seems insufficient to guarantee an optimal conservation and protection of its OUV. Certain legal questions in relation to their creation and status also remain pending. As ownership over the federal lands in the nature parks has not been transferred to the regional administration, nature parks are subject to a complex jurisdiction, which results in different agencies
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