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Criteria
  • (vii) Superlative beauty
  • (viii) Earth’s history
  • (ix) Ecosystems
  • (x) Species
Rating
  • Good
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Threat
  • Residential, Commercial & Recreation Areas
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  • Human Intrusions & Disturbance
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    • Changes in Physical & Chemical Regimes
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  • Social/ Cultural Changes
    • Changes in traditional ways of life and knowledge systems that result in negative impact
    • Identity/social cohesion/ changes in local population and community that result in negative impact
  • Unknown Threats
Benefit
  • Food
    • Legal subsistence hunting of wild game
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    • Access to drinking water
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  • Cultural and spiritual values
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    • Importance for research
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    • Carbon sequestration
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    • Flood prevention
    • Water provision (importance for water quantity and quality)
    • Pollination
  • Materials
    • Collection of timber, e.g. fuelwood
    • Sustainable extraction of materials (e.g. coral, shells, resin, rubber, grass, rattan, etc)
  • Contribution to local economy
    • Provision of jobs
    • Tourism-related income
Designation
  • ASEAN Heritage
  • AZE
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  • European Diploma of Protected Areas
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  • Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)
  • IBA
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  • Ramsar site
Theme
  • Coastal
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International designation
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  • ASEAN Heritage
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  • Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)

Conservation outlook assessments

Search all natural World Heritage sites and learn how likely they are to maintain Outstanding Universal Value over time. The Conservation Outlook Assessments are based on best available information mobilized from a wide range of sources, and we welcome feedback to help improve them.

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The gauge

the gauge

The gauge reflects the conservation outlook of sites inscribed as World Heritage under the natural criteria vii, viii, ix and x. Each site has received a rating according to the state and trends of its values, threats, and protection and management

>> More details on ratings

RESULTS: 271 SITES
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Significant concern

Sinharaja Forest Reserve

Sri Lanka
Inscribed in
1988
Criteria
(ix)
(x)
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Good with some concerns

Škocjan Caves

Slovenia
Inscribed in
1986
Criteria
(vii)
(ix)
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Significant concern

Socotra Archipelago

Yemen
Inscribed in
2008
Criterion
(x)
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Good with some concerns

South China Karst

China
Inscribed in
2007
Criteria
(vii)
(viii)
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Good with some concerns

Srebarna Nature Reserve

Bulgaria
Inscribed in
1983
Criterion
(x)
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Good

St Kilda

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK)
Inscribed in
1986
Criteria
(iii)
(v)
(vii)
(ix)
(x)
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Good

Stevns Klint

Denmark
Inscribed in
2014
Criterion
(viii)
Read more
Significant concern

Sundarbans National Park

India
Inscribed in
1987
Criteria
(ix)
(x)
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Good

Surtsey

Iceland
Inscribed in
2008
Criterion
(ix)
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Good with some concerns

Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch

Switzerland
Inscribed in
2001
Criteria
(vii)
(viii)
(ix)
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Good

Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona

Switzerland
Inscribed in
2008
Criterion
(viii)
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Good with some concerns

Taï National Park

Côte d'Ivoire
Inscribed in
1982
Criteria
(vii)
(x)
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Good with some concerns

Tajik National Park (Mountains of the Pamirs)

Tajikistan
Inscribed in
2013
Criteria
(vii)
(viii)
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Significant concern

Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park

Costa Rica
Panama
Inscribed in
1983
Criteria
(vii)
(viii)
(ix)
(x)
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Good with some concerns

Tasmanian Wilderness

Australia
Inscribed in
1989
Criteria
(iii)
(iv)
(vi)
(vii)
(viii)
(ix)
(x)
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Good with some concerns

Tassili n'Ajjer

Algeria
Inscribed in
1982
Criteria
(i)
(iii)
(vii)
(viii)
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Good with some concerns

Te Henua Enata – The Marquesas Islands

France
Inscribed in
2024
Criteria
(iii)
(vi)
(vii)
(ix)
(x)
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Good with some concerns

Te Wāhipounamu – South West New Zealand

New Zealand
Inscribed in
1986
Criteria
(vii)
(viii)
(ix)
(x)
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Good with some concerns
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Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley: originary habitat of Mesoamerica

Mexico
Inscribed in
2018
Criteria
(iv)
(x)
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Good

Teide National Park

Spain
Inscribed in
2007
Criteria
(vii)
(viii)
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Critical

The Ahwar of Southern Iraq: Refuge of Biodiversity and the Relict Landscape of the Mesopotamian Cities

Iraq
Inscribed in
2016
Criteria
(iii)
(v)
(ix)
(x)
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Good with some concerns

The Dolomites

Italy
Inscribed in
2009
Criteria
(vii)
(viii)
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Good

The Flow Country

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK)
Inscribed in
2024
Criterion
(ix)
Read more
Significant concern

The Sundarbans

Bangladesh
Inscribed in
1997
Criteria
(ix)
(x)
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Significant concern

Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas

China
Inscribed in
2003
Criteria
(vii)
(viii)
(ix)
(x)
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Good with some concerns

Thungyai - Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuaries

Thailand
Inscribed in
1991
Criteria
(vii)
(ix)
(x)
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Good with some concerns

Tikal National Park

Guatemala
Inscribed in
1979
Criteria
(i)
(iii)
(iv)
(ix)
(x)
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Good

Tongariro National Park

New Zealand
Inscribed in
1993
Criteria
(vi)
(vii)
(viii)
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Good with some concerns

Trang An Landscape Complex

Viet Nam
Inscribed in
2014
Criteria
(v)
(vii)
(viii)
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Critical

Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra

Indonesia
Inscribed in
2004
Criteria
(vii)
(ix)
(x)
Read more

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