Galápagos Islands placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
The Committee added the archipelago to the danger list over invasive species, uncontrolled growth in tourism and residency, and overfishing. Ecuador responded with a package of migration, quarantine and fisheries measures. This is the danger list used as intended: as leverage on a willing State rather than as a prelude to deletion.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Galápagos Islands · site · Ecuador
- List of World Heritage in Danger · instrument · Global · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Galapagos Islands removed from UN list of World Heritage sites in danger
On 28 July 2010 the World Heritage Committee removed the Galápagos Islands from the List of World Heritage in Danger, finding significant progress by Ecuador; IUCN and the Galápagos Conservancy publicly argued the removal was premature. ALSO: The Galápagos Islands were inscribed in 1978 and placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 2007 because of invasive species, unregulated tourism growth and overfishing.
UN News; with UNEP-WCMC World Heritage Datasheets · 2010-07-29 · Partly verified
https://news.un.org/en/story/2010/07/346212 — UN News report on the 34th session decision of 28 July 2010 | also: http://world-heritage-datasheets.unep-wcmc.org/datasheet/output/site/galapagos-islands/ — UNEP-WCMC datasheet covering inscription in 1978 and the 2007 danger listing
Recorded on Galápagos Islands
- The first properties are inscribed on the World Heritage List
- Angkor inscribed on the World Heritage List and the danger list on the same day
- Angkor removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger
- Galápagos Islands placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
- Arabian Oryx Sanctuary deleted — the first site ever removed from the World Heritage List
- Dresden Elbe Valley deleted — the second removal, by a vote of 14 to 5
- Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger
- Fourteen of Timbuktu's sixteen inscribed mausoleums destroyed
- The Temple of Bel at Palmyra destroyed
- Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City deleted — the third and most recent removal
- The Committee declines, again, to place Venice on the danger list
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- Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City deleted — the third and most recent removal · 2021-07-21
- The Temple of Bel at Palmyra destroyed · 2015-08-30
- Fourteen of Timbuktu's sixteen inscribed mausoleums destroyed · 2012-06-30/2012-07-11
- Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger · 2012
- Dresden Elbe Valley deleted — the second removal, by a vote of 14 to 5 · 2009-06
- Arabian Oryx Sanctuary deleted — the first site ever removed from the World Heritage List · 2007
- Angkor removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger · 2004-06