List of World Heritage in Danger

Assembled from 37 blocks · 2 evidence · 33 related

1. Story
2. A separate list, provided for in Article 11(4) of the Convention, of inscribed properties threatened by serious and specific dangers — armed conflict, large-scale public or private projects, urban development, tourism pressure, abandonment, natural disaster. It is designed as a mechanism for mobilising assistance and corrective action, not as a punishment, and inscription on it does not require the State Party's consent. In practice it is read politically: some States treat it as a call for help (Mali, Cambodia), others as a national humiliation to be resisted (Germany over Dresden, Italy over Venice, the UK over Liverpool). Danger listing is the usual, but not compulsory, precursor to deletion.
3. Knowledge
4. Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972)
5. List of World Heritage in Danger
6. Connections
7. Outstanding Universal Value and the ten selection criteria
8. Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972)
9. Venice and its Lagoon
10. Dresden Elbe Valley (delisted 2009)
11. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (delisted 2021)
12. Timbuktu
13. Site of Palmyra
14. Galápagos Islands
15. Angkor
16. Angkor inscribed on the World Heritage List and the danger list on the same day
17. Angkor removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger
18. Galápagos Islands placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
19. Arabian Oryx Sanctuary deleted — the first site ever removed from the World Heritage List
20. Dresden Elbe Valley deleted — the second removal, by a vote of 14 to 5
21. Fourteen of Timbuktu's sixteen inscribed mausoleums destroyed
22. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
23. The Temple of Bel at Palmyra destroyed
24. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City deleted — the third and most recent removal
25. The Committee declines, again, to place Venice on the danger list
26. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
27. Site of Palmyra
28. Outstanding Universal Value and the ten selection criteria
29. List of World Heritage in Danger
30. World Heritage Committee
31. International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia
32. UNESCO General Conference adopts the World Heritage Convention
33. The Convention enters into force
34. ICC convicts Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi for the destruction of Timbuktu's mausoleums
35. Evidence
36. Establishes the World Heritage List, the List of World Heritage in Danger, the 21-member World Heritage Committee, the World Heritage Fund, and names ICCROM, ICOMOS and IUCN as advisory bodies; asserts a duty on the international community as a whole to co-operate in protecting heritage of outstanding universal value while leaving sovereignty with the State Party.
37. Sets the ten selection criteria, the conditions of integrity and authenticity, the Tentative List and nomination dossier procedure, the criteria for inscription on and removal from the List of World Heritage in Danger, and the procedure for deletion from the World Heritage List. ALSO: Until the end of 2004 sites were selected on six cultural and four natural criteria; from the 2005 Operational Guidelines a single set of ten criteria applies, and a property must meet at least one of them plus demonstrate Outstanding Universal Value.