Skip to main content
Home World Heritage Outlook

Main navigation

  • Results
  • Explore sites
  • Partners
  • Sites benefits
  • More
    • About the IUCN World Heritage Outlook
    • Understanding ratings
    • Methodology and consultation
    • FAQ
    • News
    • Resources
    • Contact us
    • Terms of use
    • Privacy Policy
  • Log in
You are here:
  1. Home
  2. Explore sites

Search all natural sites

or
Explore map
Clear search

Filters

Choose one or more filters to refine your search.
Region
  • Africa
  • Arab States
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • Mesoamerica and the Caribbean
  • North America
  • Oceania
  • South America
Criteria
  • (vii) Superlative beauty
  • (viii) Earth’s history
  • (ix) Ecosystems
  • (x) Species
Rating
  • Good with some concerns
  • Significant concern
  • Critical
Threat
  • Housing/ Urban Areas
  • (-) Roads/ Railroads
  • Changes in traditional ways of life and knowledge systems that result in negative impact
  • Crops
  • Invasive Non-Native/ Alien Species
  • Hunting and trapping
  • Fire/ Fire Suppression
  • Tourism/ visitors/ recreation
  • Residential and Commercial Development
  • Habitat Shifting/ Alteration
  • Water Pollution
  • Dams/ Water Management or Use
  • Household Sewage/ Urban Waste Water
  • Agriculture and Aquaculture
  • Mining/ Quarrying
  • War, Civil Unrest/ Military Exercises
  • Droughts
  • Problematic Native Species
  • Identity/social cohesion/ changes in local population and community that result in negative impact
  • Commercial/ Industrial Areas
  • Utility / Service Lines
  • Forestry/ Wood production
  • Other Ecosystem Modifications
  • Shipping Lanes
  • Tourism/ Recreation Areas
  • Logging/ Wood Harvesting
  • Energy Production and Mining
  • Other Activities
  • Livestock Farming / Grazing
  • Desertification
  • Renewable Energy
  • Industrial/ Military Effluents
  • Flight Paths
  • Erosion and Siltation/ Deposition
  • Collection of non-timber forest products (NTFPs)
  • Agricultural effluents
  • Transportation and Service Corridors
  • Ocean acidification
  • Diseases/pathogens
  • Marine/ Freshwater Aquaculture
  • Biological Resource Use
  • (-) Solid Waste
  • Temperature extremes
  • Fishing / Harvesting Aquatic Resources
  • Other Biological Resource Use
  • Storms/Flooding
  • Air Pollution
  • Human Intrusions and Disturbance
  • Natural System Modifications
  • Invasive and Other Problematic Species and Genes
  • Pollution
  • Geological Events
  • Climate Change and Severe Weather
  • Social/ Cultural Changes
  • Other
Benefit
  • Other
  • Collection of timber, e.g. fuelwood
  • Legal subsistence hunting of wild game
  • Access to drinking water
  • Importance for research
  • (-) History and tradition
  • Carbon sequestration
  • Food
  • Direct employment
  • Wilderness and iconic features
  • Collection of medicinal resources for local use
  • Water
  • Collection of wild plants and mushrooms
  • (-) Sustainable extraction of materials (e.g. coral, shells, resin, rubber, grass, rattan, etc)
  • Tourism-related income
  • Soil stabilisation
  • Contribution to education
  • Commercial wells
  • Collection of genetic material
  • Sacred natural sites or landscapes
  • Fishing areas and conservation of fish stocks
  • Coastal protection
  • Provision of jobs
  • Cultural and spiritual values
  • Outdoor recreation and tourism
  • Natural beauty and scenery
  • Sacred or symbolic plants or animals
  • Health and recreation
  • Flood prevention
  • (-) Traditional agriculture
  • Knowledge
  • Livestock grazing areas
  • Water provision (importance for water quantity and quality)
  • Cultural identity and sense of belonging
  • (-) Pollination
  • Environmental services
  • Materials
  • Contribution to local economy
  • Other
Designation
  • Biosphere reserve
  • Geopark
  • IBA
  • KBA
  • (-) Ramsar site
Theme

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.

>> Learn more about the assessment process

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: 13 SITES
  • Sort Alphabetically Z-A
Clear search
Significant concern

Chitwan National Park

Nepal
Inscribed in
1984
Criteria
(vii)
(ix)
(x)
Read more
Critical

Everglades National Park

United States of America (USA)
Inscribed in
1979
Criteria
(viii)
(ix)
(x)
Read more
Good with some concerns

Fraser Island

Australia
Inscribed in
1992
Criteria
(vii)
(viii)
(ix)
Read more
Significant concern

Galápagos Islands

Ecuador
Inscribed in
1978
Criteria
(vii)
(viii)
(ix)
(x)
Read more
Critical

Great Barrier Reef

Australia
Inscribed in
1981
Criteria
(vii)
(viii)
(ix)
(x)
Read more
Significant concern

Lake Baikal

Russian Federation
Inscribed in
1996
Criteria
(vii)
(viii)
(ix)
(x)
Read more
Significant concern

Maloti-Drakensberg Park

Lesotho
South Africa
Inscribed in
2000
Criteria
(i)
(iii)
(vii)
(x)
Read more
Significant concern

Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region

Albania
North Macedonia
Inscribed in
1979
Criteria
(i)
(iii)
(iv)
(vii)
Read more
Good with some concerns
Okavango Delta, Botswana. © IUCN Peter Howard

Okavango Delta

Botswana
Inscribed in
2014
Criteria
(vii)
(ix)
(x)
Read more
Significant concern
© IUCN/ Remco van Merm

Sagarmatha National Park

Nepal
Inscribed in
1979
Criterion
(vii)
Read more
Significant concern

Sangha Trinational

Cameroon
Central African Republic
Congo
Inscribed in
2012
Criteria
(ix)
(x)
Read more
Significant concern

Socotra Archipelago

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

Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaíno

Mexico
Inscribed in
1993
Criterion
(x)
Read more
  • Sort by:Alphabetically Z-A

Main navigation

  • Results
  • Explore sites
  • Partners
  • Sites benefits
  • More
    • About the IUCN World Heritage Outlook
    • Understanding ratings
    • Methodology and consultation
    • FAQ
    • News
    • Resources
    • Contact us
    • Terms of use
    • Privacy Policy
  • Log in

Share on:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Linkedin
IUCN WCPA

© International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources