World Heritage 43 COM WHC/19/43.COM/7B Paris, 20 May 2019 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-third session Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan 30 June - 10 July 2019 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/43COM/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 ARAB STATES .................................................................................................................................... 6 1. Socotra Archipelago (Yemen) (N 1263) ................................................................................... 6 ASIA-PACIFIC ..................................................................................................................................... 7 2. Greater Blue Mountains Area (Australia) (N 917) .................................................................... 7 3. The Sundarbans (Bangladesh) (N 798) ................................................................................... 7 4. South China Karst Phase II (China) (N 1248bis) ..................................................................... 7 5. Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Area (China) (N 1083bis) ..................................... 7 6. Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area (China) (N 640) ............................................... 7 7. Manas Wildlife Sanctuary (India) (N 338) .............................................................................. 10 8. Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area (India) (N 1406rev) ............................... 13 9. Lorentz National Park (Indonesia) (N 955) ............................................................................ 16 10. Shiretoko (Japan) (N 1193) .................................................................................................... 19 11. Chitwan National Park (Nepal) (N 284) .................................................................................. 22 12. Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park (Viet Nam) (N 951bis) ................................................... 25 EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA .................................................................................................... 29 13. Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe (Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Ukraine) (N 1133ter) ................................................................................................... 29 14. Białowieża Forest (Belarus, Poland) (N 33ter)....................................................................... 33 15. Wood Buffalo National Park (Canada) (N 256) ...................................................................... 36 16. Golden Mountains of Altai (Russian Federation) (N 768rev) ................................................. 37 17. Natural System of Wrangel Island Reserve (Russian Federation) (N 1023rev) .................... 40 18. Western Caucasus (Russian Federation) (N 900) ................................................................. 42 19. Durmitor National Park (Montenegro) (N 100bis) .................................................................. 45 20. Doñana National Park (Spain) (N 685bis) .............................................................................. 45 LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN ........................................................................................ 50 21. Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System (Belize) (N 764) ........................................................... 50 22. Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks (Brazil) (N 1035) ............................................................................................................................................... 52 23. Los Katíos National Park (Colombia) (N 711) ........................................................................ 54 24. Area de Conservación Guanacaste (Costa Rica) (N 928bis) ................................................ 57 25. Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park (Costa Rica, Panama) (N 205bis) ............................................................................................................................... 61 26. Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California (Mexico) (N 1182ter) .......................... 63 27. Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (Mexico) (N 1290) ..................................................... 64 28. Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection (Panama) (N 1138rev) ....... 66 State of conservation of properties WHC/19/43.COM/7B, p. 2 Inscribed on the World Heritage List AFRICA .............................................................................................................................................. 67 29. Dja Faunal Reserve (Cameroon) (N 407) .............................................................................. 67 30. Sangha Trinational (Cameroon,Central African Republic,Congo) (N 1380rev) ..................... 67 31. Taï National Park (Côte d'Ivoire) (N 195) ............................................................................... 70 32. Comoé National Park (Côte d'Ivoire) (N 227) ........................................................................ 72 33. Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley (Kenya) (N 1060rev) ........................................ 75 34. Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls (Zambia, Zimbabwe) (N 509) ................................................ 77 MIXED PROPERTIES ........................................................................................................................... 82 ARAB STATES .................................................................................................................................. 82 35. The Ahwar of Southern Iraq: Refuge of Biodiversity and the Relict Landscape of the Mesopotamian Cities (Iraq) (C/N 1481) ................................................................................. 82 EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA .................................................................................................... 83 36. Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region (North Macedonia) (C/N 99ter) ................ 83 LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN ........................................................................................ 88 37. Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu (Peru) (C/N 274) .......................................................... 88 AFRICA .............................................................................................................................................. 93 38. Maloti-Drakensberg Park (Lesotho, South Africa) (C/N 985bis) ............................................ 93 39. Ngorongoro Conservation Area (United Republic of Tanzania) (C/N 39bis) .......................... 96 CULTURAL PROPERTIES ................................................................................................................... 97 ARAB STATES .................................................................................................................................. 97 40. Kasbah of Algiers (Algeria) (C 565) ....................................................................................... 97 41. Tipasa (Algeria) (C 193) ....................................................................................................... 100 42. Qal’at al-Bahrain – Ancient Harbour and Capital of Dilmun (Bahrain) (C 1192ter) .............. 103 43. Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis (Egypt) (C 87) .............................................................. 106 44. Historic Cairo (C 89) ............................................................................................................. 109 45. Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur (Egypt) (C 86) .... 109 46. Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” (Al-Maghtas) (Jordan) (C 1446) ...................... 109 47. Um er-Rasas (Kastrom Mefa'a) (Jordan) (C 1093) ............................................................... 112 48. Byblos (Lebanon) (C 295) ..................................................................................................... 114 49. Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy