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Criteria
  • (vii) Superlative beauty
  • (-) (viii) Earth’s history
  • (ix) Ecosystems
  • (x) Species
Rating
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Threat
  • Tourism/ visitors/ recreation
  • Housing/ Urban Areas
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  • Invasive Non-Native/ Alien Species
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  • Habitat Shifting/ Alteration
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  • Hunting and trapping
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  • Crops
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  • Problematic Native Species
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  • Earthquakes/ Tsunamis
  • Identity/social cohesion/ changes in local population and community that result in negative impact
  • Forestry/ Wood production
  • War, Civil Unrest/ Military Exercises
  • Renewable Energy
  • Shipping Lanes
  • Industrial/ Military Effluents
  • Desertification
  • Other Ecosystem Modifications
  • Avalanches/ Landslides
  • Introduced Modified Genetic Material
  • Other Activities
  • Tourism/ Recreation Areas
  • Logging/ Wood Harvesting
  • Livestock Farming / Grazing
  • Energy Production and Mining
  • Erosion and Siltation/ Deposition
  • Agricultural effluents
  • Collection of non-timber forest products (NTFPs)
  • Transportation and Service Corridors
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  • (-) Ocean acidification
  • (-) Diseases/pathogens
  • Fishing / Harvesting Aquatic Resources
  • Solid Waste
  • Temperature extremes
  • Biological Resource Use
  • Marine/ Freshwater Aquaculture
  • Air Pollution
  • Storms/Flooding
  • Other Biological Resource Use
  • Human Intrusions and Disturbance
  • Natural System Modifications
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  • Pollution
  • Geological Events
  • Climate Change and Severe Weather
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  • Other
Benefit
  • Importance for research
  • Access to drinking water
  • Direct employment
  • Food
  • Carbon sequestration
  • History and tradition
  • Water
  • Commercial wells
  • Collection of wild plants and mushrooms
  • (-) Contribution to education
  • Soil stabilisation
  • Wilderness and iconic features
  • Tourism-related income
  • Coastal protection
  • Outdoor recreation and tourism
  • Provision of jobs
  • Fishing areas and conservation of fish stocks
  • (-) Cultural and spiritual values
  • Sacred natural sites or landscapes
  • Natural beauty and scenery
  • Flood prevention
  • Sacred or symbolic plants or animals
  • Health and recreation
  • (-) Water provision (importance for water quantity and quality)
  • Cultural identity and sense of belonging
  • Livestock grazing areas
  • Knowledge
  • Environmental services
  • (-) Pollination
  • Contribution to local economy
Designation
  • Biosphere reserve
  • 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

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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: 11 SITES
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Good with some concerns

Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks

Canada
Inscribed in
1984
Criteria
(vii)
(viii)
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Good

Dinosaur Provincial Park

Canada
Inscribed in
1979
Criteria
(vii)
(viii)
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Significant concern

Galápagos Islands

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

Gondwana Rainforests of Australia

Australia
Inscribed in
1986
Criteria
(viii)
(ix)
(x)
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Critical

Great Barrier Reef

Australia
Inscribed in
1981
Criteria
(vii)
(viii)
(ix)
(x)
Read more
Good with some concerns

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

United States of America (USA)
Inscribed in
1983
Criteria
(vii)
(viii)
(ix)
(x)
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Good

High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago

Finland
Sweden
Inscribed in
2000
Criterion
(viii)
Read more
Good with some concerns

Macquarie Island

Australia
Inscribed in
1997
Criteria
(vii)
(viii)
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Good with some concerns

Mammoth Cave National Park

United States of America (USA)
Inscribed in
1981
Criteria
(vii)
(viii)
(x)
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Significant concern

Pitons Management Area

Saint Lucia
Inscribed in
2004
Criteria
(vii)
(viii)
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Good

Wadden Sea

Denmark
Germany
Netherlands
Inscribed in
2009
Criteria
(viii)
(ix)
(x)
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