World Heritage in Danger

The List of World Heritage in Danger identifies World Heritage properties facing serious and specific threats to the features that give them outstanding universal value.

World Heritage Committee: The UNESCO body responsible for implementing the World Heritage Convention and deciding which properties enter or leave its lists. It decides whether a threatened property meets the criteria for inscription.
Old City of Jerusalem and Its Walls: A historic urban area inscribed on the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger. Its danger-list status reflects concern for a highly significant site amid political and conservation pressures.
World Heritage List: UNESCO's list of cultural and natural properties recognized for outstanding universal value. Danger-list properties remain World Heritage properties unless separately removed from this broader list.
International assistance: Support provided across national borders to address needs that a country cannot adequately meet alone. World Heritage mechanisms can direct technical or financial support toward threatened properties.
World Heritage Convention: The 1972 international treaty establishing cooperation to identify, protect, and preserve cultural and natural heritage of outstanding universal value. Its provisions establish the framework for the danger list and international protection.
Timbuktu: A historic city in Mali known for its mosques, mausoleums, and manuscripts. Armed conflict and destruction of mausoleums led to its inscription on the danger list in 2012.
World Heritage in Danger criteria: The conditions used to determine whether a World Heritage property faces serious and specific danger to its outstanding universal value. They distinguish formal danger-list inscription from general concern about a site's condition.
Cultural heritage protection in armed conflict: Legal, military, and conservation measures intended to prevent damage to cultural heritage during armed conflict. Several danger-list properties face threats from warfare and deliberate destruction.
Reactive Monitoring: The process through which UNESCO assesses the state of conservation of World Heritage properties facing threats or other concerns. It supplies assessments that can prompt danger-list inscription or follow-up action.
Everglades National Park: A protected wetland in Florida containing distinctive subtropical ecosystems and wildlife. Water-management problems and ecological degradation have repeatedly prompted danger-list inscription.

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