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Criteria
  • (vii) Superlative beauty
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Threat
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Benefit
  • Legal subsistence hunting of wild game
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  • Fishing areas and conservation of fish stocks
  • Provision of jobs
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  • Natural beauty and scenery
  • Livestock grazing areas
  • Water provision (importance for water quantity and quality)
  • (-) Knowledge
  • Cultural identity and sense of belonging
  • Environmental services
  • (-) Contribution to local economy
Designation
  • Ramsar site
Theme
  • Coastal
  • Marine

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 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

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RESULTS: 4 SITES
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Good with some concerns
 © IUCN / German Soler

Archipiélago de Revillagigedo

Mexico
Inscribed in
2016
Criteria
(vii)
(ix)
(x)
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Good

Tongariro National Park

New Zealand
Inscribed in
1993
Criteria
(vi)
(vii)
(viii)
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Good
© IUCN/Bastian Bertzky

Vatnajökull National Park - Dynamic Nature of Fire and Ice

Iceland
Inscribed in
2019
Criterion
(viii)
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Critical

Virunga National Park

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Inscribed in
1979
Criteria
(vii)
(viii)
(x)
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