State of Conservation of Properties Inscribed on the World Heritage List
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World Heritage 41 COM WHC/17/41.COM/7B Paris, 19 May 2017 Original: English / French UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE Forty-first session Krakow, Poland 2-12 July 2017 Item 7B of the Provisional Agenda: State of conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List SUMMARY This document contains information on the state of conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List. The World Heritage Committee is requested to review the reports on the state of conservation of properties contained in this document. The full reports of Reactive Monitoring missions requested by the World Heritage Committee are available at the following Web address in their original language: http://whc.unesco.org/en/sessions/41COM/documents All previous state of conservation reports are available through the World Heritage State of conservation Information System at the following Web address: http://whc.unesco.org/en/soc Decision required: The World Heritage Committee may wish to adopt the draft Decision presented at the end of each state of conservation report. Table of content REPORTS ON THE STATE OF CONSERVATION OF PROPERTIES INSCRIBED ON THE WORLD HERITAGE LIST...................................................................................................................................... 6 NATURAL PROPERTIES ....................................................................................................................... 6 EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA ...................................................................................................... 6 1. Bialowieza Forest (Belarus / Poland) (N 33ter) ....................................................................... 6 2. Wood Buffalo National Park (Canada) (N 256) ........................................................................ 6 3. Plitvice Lakes National Park (Croatia) (N 98bis) ...................................................................... 6 4. Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany (Germany,Slovakia,Ukraine) (N 1133bis) ................................................................................. 9 5. Golden Mountains of Altai (Russian Federation) (N 768rev) ................................................. 12 6. Lake Baikal (Russian Federation) (N 754) ............................................................................. 15 7. Natural System of Wrangel Island Reserve (Russian Federation) (N 1023rev) .................... 19 8. Western Caucasus (Russian Federation) (N 900) ................................................................. 21 9. Doñana National Park (Spain) (N 685bis).............................................................................. 21 LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN ........................................................................................ 25 10. Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks (Brazil) (N 1035) ...................................................................................................................................... 25 11. Los Katíos National Park (Colombia) (N 711) ........................................................................ 27 12. Area de Conservación Guanacaste (Costa Rica) (N 928bis) ................................................ 31 13. Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park (Costa Rica, Panama) (N 205bis) ............................................................................................................................... 34 14. Morne - Trois Pitons National Park (Dominica) (N 814) ......................................................... 36 15. Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California (Mexico) (N 1182ter) .......................... 36 16. Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (Mexico) (N 1290) ..................................................... 37 17. Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection (Panama) (N 1138rev) ....... 39 AFRICA .............................................................................................................................................. 43 18. Dja Wildlife Reserve (Cameroon) (N 407) ............................................................................. 43 19. Sangha Trinational (Cameron / Central African Republic / Congo) (N 1380rev) ................... 43 20. Tai National Park (Côte d’Ivoire) (N 195) ............................................................................... 46 21. Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley (Kenya) (N 1060rev) ........................................ 48 22. Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls (Zambia, Zimbabwe) (N 509) ................................................ 50 ARAB STATES .................................................................................................................................. 54 23. Socotra Archipelago (Yemen) (N 1263) ................................................................................. 54 ASIA-PACIFIC ................................................................................................................................... 55 24. Great Barrier Reef (Australia) (N 154) ................................................................................... 55 25. The Sundarbans (Bangladesh) (N 798) ................................................................................. 55 26. South China Karst (China) (N 1248bis) ................................................................................. 59 27. Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas (China) (N 1083bis) ................................. 61 28. Manas Wildlife Sanctuary (India) (N 338) .............................................................................. 64 State of conservation of properties WHC/17/41.COM/7B, p. 2 Inscribed on the World Heritage List 29. Lorentz National Park (Indonesia) (N 955) ............................................................................ 67 30. Shiretoko (Japan) (N 1193) .................................................................................................... 70 31. Chitwan National Park (Nepal) (N 284) .................................................................................. 72 32. Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex (Thailand) (N 590rev) ........................................ 75 33. Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park (Viet Nam) (N 951bis) ................................................... 76 MIXED PROPERTIES ........................................................................................................................... 79 EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA .................................................................................................... 79 34. Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region (the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) (C/N 99ter).......................................................................................................... 79 LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN ........................................................................................ 80 35. Blue and John Crow Mountains (Jamaica) (C/N 1356rev) .................................................... 80 36. Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu (Peru) (C/N 274) .......................................................... 82 AFRICA .............................................................................................................................................. 83 37. Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda (Gabon) (C/N 1147rev) ............ 83 38. Maloti-Drakensberg Park (Lesotho, South Africa) (C/N 985bis) ............................................ 86 39. Ngorongoro Conservation Area (United Republic of Tanzania) (C/N 39bis) .......................... 89 CULTURAL PROPERTIES ................................................................................................................... 93 EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA .................................................................................................... 93 40. Historic Centres of Berat and Gjirokastra (Albania) (C 569bis) ............................................. 93 41. Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg (Austria) (C 784) ....................................................... 96 42. Historic Centre of Vienna (Austria) (C 1033) ......................................................................... 99 43. Ancient City of Nessebar (Bulgaria) (C 217) .......................................................................... 99 44. Historical Monuments of Mtskheta (Georgia) (C 708) ........................................................... 99 45. Upper Middle Rhine Valley (Germany) (C 1066) ................................................................. 103 46. Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue (Hungary) (C 400bis) .............................................................................................. 105 47. Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata (Italy) (C 829) ........ 106 48. Venice and its lagoon (Italy) (C 394) .................................................................................... 108 49. Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands (Russian Federation) (C 632) ... 108 50. Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape (Turkey) (C 1488) ............... 109 51. Ephesus (Turkey) (C