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World Heritage 27 COM Distribution limited WHC-03/27.COM/7B Paris, 12 June 2003 Original : English/French UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE Twenty-seventh session Paris, UNESCO Headquarters, Room XII 30 June – 5 July 2003 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. Decision required: The Committee is requested to review the reports on the state of conservation of properties contained in this document The Committee may wish to adopt the draft decision presented at the end of each state of conservation report. I. INTRODUCTION This document deals with reactive monitoring as it is defined in the Operational Guidelines: "The reporting by the Centre, other sectors of UNESCO and the Advisory Bodies to the Bureau and the Committee on the state of conservation of specific World Heritage sites that are under threat". Reactive monitoring is foreseen in the procedures for the eventual deletion of properties from the World Heritage List (paragraphs 48-56 of the current Operational Guidelines) and for the inclusion of properties in the List of World Heritage in Danger (paragraphs 86-93 of the current Operational Guidelines). II. STRUCTURE OF THE DOCUMENT To facilitate the work of the Committee, a standard format has been used for all state of conservation reports as follows: Name of property (State Party) •= Year of inscription on the World Heritage List and on the List of World Heritage in Danger, respectively; •= Inscription criteria; •= International assistance provided to the property to date; •= Previous deliberations. Reference is made to relevant paragraph numbers from the Report of the 26th session of the Bureau of the World Heritage Committee and 26th ordinary session of the Committee (June, Budapest 2002). In order to limit the length of this working document to a minimum number of pages, texts from this and other previous reports have not been repeated in this document). •= New information; •= Main issues/threats addressed in the report; and •= Draft Decision. State of conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List WHC-03/27.COM/7B, p. i TABLE OF CONTENTS NATURAL HERITAGE B. MIXED HERITAGE AFRICA AFRICA 1. Dja Faunal Reserve (Cameroon) 27. Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons) 2. Taï National Park (Côte d'Ivoire) (Mali) 3. Comoé National Park (Côte d'Ivoire) 4. Mount Kenya National Park/Natural ASIA AND THE PACIFIC Forest (Kenya) 5. W National Park of Niger (Niger) 28. Kakadu National Park (Australia) 6; Greater St Lucia Wetland Park (South 29. Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Africa) Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area (China) ARAB STATES LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN 7. Banc d'Arguin National Park (Mauritania) 30. Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu ASIA AND THE PACIFIC (Peru) 8. Lorentz National Park (Indonesia) C. CULTURAL HERITAGE 9. Royal Chitwan National Park (Nepal) 10. Sagarmatha National Park (Nepal) AFRICA 11. Tubbataha Reef Marine Park (Philippines) 12. Ha Long Bay (Viet Nam) 31. Lamu Old Town (Kenya) 13. East Rennell (Solomon Islands) 32. Royal Hill of Ambohimanga (Madagascar) EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA 33. Island of Gorée (Senegal) 34. Robben Island (South Africa) 14. Belovezhskaya Pushcha /Bialowieza Forest (Belarus and Poland) ARAB STATES 15. Pirin National Park (Bulgaria) 16. Nahanni National Park (Canada) 35. Kasbah of Algiers (Algeria) 17. Wood Buffalo National Park (Canada) 36. Islamic Cairo (Egypt) 18. Aeolian Islands (Italy) 37. Memphis and its Necropolis - the Pyramid 19. Lake Baikal (Russian Federation) Fields from Giza to Dahshur (Egypt) 20. Volcanoes of Kamchatka (Russian 38. Byblos (Lebanon) Federation) 39. Tyre (Lebanon) 21. Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast 40. Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, (United Kingdom) Tichitt and Oualata (Mauritania) 22. Henderson Island (United Kingdom) 41. Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou (Morocco) LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC 23. Iguaçu National Park (Brazil) 42. Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur 24. Talamanca Range - La Amistad (Bangladesh) Reserves/La Amistad National Park 43. Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing (Costa Rica and Panama) Dynasties (China) 25. Galápagos Islands (Ecuador) 44. Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang 26. Sian Ka'an (Mexico) Mountains (China) 45. Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace, Lhasa (China) 46. Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya (India) State of conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List WHC-03/27.COM/7B, p. iii 47. Borobudur Temple Compounds 80. Kiev: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related (Indonesia) Monastic Buildings, Kiev-Pechersk Lavra 48. Meidan Emam, Esfahan (Iran) (Ukraine) 49. Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara 81. Old and New Towns of Edinburgh (Japan) (United Kingdom) 50. Town of Luang Prabang (Lao People’s 82. Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Democratic Republic) Sites (United Kingdom) 51. Vat Phou and Associated Ancient 83. Tower of London (United Kingdom) Settlements within the Champasak Cultural Landscape (Lao People’s LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Democratic Republic) 52. Kathmandu Valley (Nepal) 84. Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis: San 53. Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Ignacio Mini, Santa Ana, Nuestra Señora Buddha (Nepal) de Loreto and Santa Maria Mayor 54. Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple (Argentina), Ruins of Sao Miguel das (Republic of Korea) Missoes (Brazil) (Argentina/Brazil) 55. State Historical and Cultural Park 85. Brasilia (Brazil) “Ancient Merv” (Turkmenistan) 86. Historic Centre of the Town of Goiás 56. Historic Centre of Shakhrisyabz (Brazil) (Uzbekistan) 87. Historic Town of Ouro Preto Brazil) 88. Churches of Chiloé (Chile) EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA 89. Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena (Colombia) 57. Historic Centre of Vienna (Austria) 90. Colonial City of Santo Domingo 58. Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg (Dominican Republic) (Austria) 91. Joya de Ceren Archaeological Site 59. Walled City of Baku with the (El Salvador) Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower 92. Antigua Guatemala (Guatemala) (Azerbaijan) 93. Maya Site of Copan (Honduras) 60. Historic District of Québec (Canada) 94. Historic Centre of Puebla (Mexico) 61. Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay (France) 95. Historic Centre of Mexico City and 62. City-Museum Reserve of Mtskheta Xochimilco (Mexico) (Georgia) 96. Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of 63. Cologne Cathedral (Germany) Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo 64. Hanseatic City of Lübeck (Germany) (Panama) 65. Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin 97. Chavin (Archaeological Site) (Peru) (Germany) 98. City of Cuzco (Peru) 66. Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 99. Historic Centre of Lima (Peru) (Germany) 100. Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa 67. Acropolis, Athens (Greece) (Peru) 68. Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of 101. Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia del the Boyne (Ireland) Sacramento (Uruguay) 69. Curonian Spit (Lithuania and Russian 102. Coro and its Port (Venezuela) Federation) 70. Historic Centre of Riga (Latvia) 71. Auschwitz Concentration Camp (Poland) 72. Cultural Landscape of Sintra (Portugal) 73. Historic Centre of Sighisoara (Romania) 74. Kizhi Pogost (Russian Federation) 75 Spissky Hrad and its Associated Cultural Monuments (Slovakia) 76. Old City of Salamanca (Spain) 77. Route of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) 78. Old Town of Avila with its Extra-Muros Churches (Spain) 79. Historic Areas of Istanbul (Turkey) State of conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List WHC-03/27.COM/7B, p. iv Reports on the State of conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List A. NATURAL HERITAGE mentioned workshop. The State Party has already submitted a preliminary biodiversity assessment report. AFRICA Issues: 1.Dja Faunal Reserve (Cameroon) Poaching/Hunting; Lack of capacity in conservation techniques, Lack of management mechanism (including Year of inscription on the World Heritage List: 1987 legislation), Lack of monitoring system Criteria N (ii) (iv) Additional Details: Previous International Assistance: Wildlife hunting and human encroachment US$ 47,000 under Technical Assistance; US$ 34,700 for Training Assistance Draft Decision: 27 COM 7 (b) 1 Previous Bureau/Committee Deliberations: The World Heritage Committee, Twenty-fourth session of the Bureau (IV.27); Twenty-fifth session of the World Heritage Committee (para III.6) 1. Recalling that requests have been made by the Committee and its Bureau to the State Party to take urgent New Information: actions to stop illegal poaching in the Reserve and to WHC: implement the recommendations of the Sangmelima Dja Faunal Reserve is one of the World Heritage sites that workshop; has been reported in the last years to be heavily impacted by wildlife extraction as bush meat, and encroachment on 2. Noting that the State Party has renewed efforts to the buffer zone by timber concessions. The Committee at improve the management of Dja Reserve by drafting a its twenty-fifth session was informed by the Centre and Management Plan; IUCN of the new Forest Initiative for African World Heritage (AWHFI) of UNESCO/FAO, which was under 3. Welcomes the actions being undertaken by the State preparation for submission to United Nations Foundations Party to implement the recommendations of the in