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The Bureau was informed that this Park is located in a very remote area, and due to difficulty of access, remains well protected. There are no major threats to the Park; a certain amount of illegal collection of medicinal plants and herbs has been recorded. No visitors are allowed to the Park; some mountaineering groups have in recent times expressed an interest in organizing expeditions to the area. Allowing a certain amount of visitation may facilitate the presentation of this World Heritage Area to the general public and may generate income for the benefit of local people as well. ...
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks
Country: India
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks
Country: India
The Bureau recalled the fact that the boat provided to this World Heritage area with financial assistance from the Fund in 1994, was destroyed in an accident during a systematic monitoring mission to the site in July 1995, in which four Indonesian officials lost their lives. With a view to equipping the Park with a boat capable of undertaking open-sea travel, the Committee at its nineteenth session (Berlin, 1995) approved a sum of US$ 30,000 and requested that the State Party provide the additional US$ 30,000 needed to purchase a large fiberglass catamaran. Learning the fact that the ...
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Komodo National Park
Country: Indonesia
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Komodo National Park
Country: Indonesia
The Bureau was informed that the Centre's attention had been drawn by the International Foundation for Banc d’Arguin (FIBA) and WWF, to a Rally, “Trophée des Gazelles - Rallye des Sables”, that had traversed the area of the Park and to potential impacts which the Rally could have had on the fragile ecosystem within the Park. However, the Bureau noted that subsequently the Rally Organizers and FIBA have informed the Centre that the Rally did not traverse the World Heritage site and that there were no threats to the integrity of the site.
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Banc d'Arguin National Park
Country: Mauritania
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Banc d'Arguin National Park
Country: Mauritania
The Bureau recalled that the Committee, at its twentieth session (Merida, 1996) reviewed a report on a project for industrial salt production at the site and its potential threats to the site's whale population and noted that the project had not yet been authorized and that a Scientific Committee to review the proposed project had been established by the Ministry of Environment.
The Bureau was informed that the seven member Scientific Committee has elaborated, through consultations with the public, rigorous and comprehensive terms of reference for its work and for the environmental ...
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino
Country: Mexico
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino
Country: Mexico
The Bureau noted with satisfaction that this site has a population of more than 400 great one-horned rhinoceros and its success is partly attributable to the cooperation between the Nepalese Army and the staff of the Royal Chitwan National Park in anti-poaching activities.
The Bureau was informed that 80% of the total population (i.e. about 2,000) of the great one-horned rhinoceros, a species restricted in its range to South Asia, are found in the World Heritage sites of Kaziranga (India; 1,200) and Royal Chitwan (Nepal; 400). The Bureau, however, noted that intensive poaching can ...
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Chitwan National Park
Country: Nepal
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Chitwan National Park
Country: Nepal
The Bureau was informed that about 3500 people belonging to the Sherpa community live in and around the Park and play a significant role as guides for the visitors to the Park. Tourism however, is placing an ever increasing energy demand on the sparse woody vegetation left remaining in the area and also introduces considerable problems of waste disposal.
The Director of the Park had proposed that staff, army personnel and the Sherpa community resident in the vicinity of the Park shift to using kerosene as a primary source of energy but has been unable to raise the necessary capital, ...
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Sagarmatha National Park
Country: Nepal
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Sagarmatha National Park
Country: Nepal
The Bureau recalled that the Committee, at its twentieth session (Merida, 1996) expressed its concerns regarding the poaching of thirteen Oryx, the damage to the desert habitat caused by construction of a reverse osmosis plant and delays in the completion of the management planning and boundary definition project. The Bureau was informed that the authorities in Oman have provided the Centre an outline of an interim plan which foresees the following:
(a) a new outer boundary which will be fixed and boundaries of the five management zones which will be provisionally accepted for 5 years to ...
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Country: Oman
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Country: Oman
The Bureau noted that the Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee approved, in 1996, a sum of US$ 20,000, for the implementation of a project entitled "Protection and Information and Education Campaign for the Conservation of Tubbataha Reef Marine Park". The Bureau was happy to note that the Project Management Team (PMT) has regular consultations with Government agencies, research institutions and local communities concerned with the project's implementation and that a Presidential Task Force has brought together all groups interested in the conservation of this World Heritage site. ...
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park
Country: Philippines
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park
Country: Philippines
The Bureau was informed that the Sri Lankan authorities have increased the total area of the Sinharaja National Heritage Wilderness Area from 8,860 ha to 11,187 ha to incorporate some habitat fragments northeast of the World Heritage Area. Since the current size of the Sinharaja World Heritage area is 8,860 ha, the Bureau requested IUCN and the Centre to contact Sri Lankan authorities to obtain information on areas included in the extension in order to determine whether or not the State Party should be invited to consider increasing the total area of the World Heritage Site.
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Sinharaja Forest Reserve
Country: Sri Lanka
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Sinharaja Forest Reserve
Country: Sri Lanka
The Bureau noted with concern that this site faced considerable threats from a proposal of the national electricity company (EDELCA) to erect a series of power transmission lines, expected to extend 160 km across the Park, to supply power from the Guri dam to Brazil and to a mining site north of the Park. The traditional Pemon community who inhabit a portion of the Park are concerned that the power generation project will lead to increased mining and logging and hence are opposing the scheme. During recent years large scale mining operations have been started in areas outside of the Park ...
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Canaima National Park
Country: Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Canaima National Park
Country: Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
The Bureau recalled that the Committee at its nineteenth and the twentieth sessions expressed concerns over the impacts which a proposed port development project could have on this site and plans of the Vietnam Government to issue a license for the establishment of a large floating hotel in the vicinity of the World Heritage site. The Bureau noted that a member of the Centre staff participated in the management planning training seminar organized by the Vietnamese authorities in Ha Long City, during 10-23 June 1997, with financial support (US$ 24,250) approved by the Committee at its last ...
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Ha Long Bay
Country: Viet Nam
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Ha Long Bay
Country: Viet Nam
The Bureau recalled that the Committee at its last session had been concerned about the unplanned and uncontrolled expansion of the village of Zabljak and its environs and requested clarification regarding the boundary adjustments under consideration. Furthermore the Committee had considered an engineering evaluation of the earthen containment structures built within the earthquake prone flood plains of the Tara River.
The Bureau was informed that the Management of the Durmitor National Park have informed the Centre that their proposal to excise the 40 ha area around the village of ...
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Durmitor National Park
Country: Montenegro
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Durmitor National Park
Country: Montenegro
The Bureau thanked the Government of Peru for the report on Machu Picchu prepared by the National Institute for Culture. It expressed its concern, however, about the apparent lack of integral management mechanisms for the property and the implementation and/or consideration of several projects that might have a negative impact either on its natural or cultural values. The Bureau, therefore, requested IUCN and ICOMOS to undertake a joint mission to Machu Picchu in order to examine the management and conservation of the site and to draw up recommendations for future actions. The Bureau ...
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu
Country: Peru
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu
Country: Peru
The Secretariat informed the Bureau of press reports according to which the site of Butrinti and its museum were looted during the civil disturbances in Albania. This information was confirmed by the Butrint Foundation and in a meeting with the Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Albania to UNESCO on 16 April 1997 at which it was agreed that a joint UNESCO-ICOMOS-Butrint Foundation mission would be undertaken to the site. Due to the security situation in the country, this mission could not be undertaken before this session of the Bureau.
The Bureau expressed its great concern about the ...
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Butrint
Country: Albania
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Butrint
Country: Albania
CONF 204 IV.B.38
Memphis and its Necropolis - the Pyramid fields from Giza to Dahshur; Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae; Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis (Arab Republic of Egypt)
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae
Country: Egypt
a) Al-Azhar Mosque
After having taken note of the report of the Secretariat concerning the ongoing works at the Al-Azhar Mosque at the site of Islamic Cairo, the Bureau requested the Egyptian authorities to ensure that the authenticity of the monument is respected, which unfortunately was not the case for the three Fatimid Mosques, and recalled that the World Heritage Centre is available to provide expert advice to this end.
b) Al-Sinnari House
After having taken note of the Secretariat's report concerning the ongoing work at the Al-Sinnari House in ...
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Historic Cairo
Country: Egypt
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Historic Cairo
Country: Egypt
The Bureau took note of a report submitted by the Minister for Culture, Youth, Family and Women of the Land Rheinland-Pfalz regarding the Roman amphitheatre in Trier.
The Bureau noted the results of the urban competition for the zone north of the Roman amphitheatre and the selection of a project which would permit the reopening of the northern access to the arena, which had until now, been blocked by brewery constructions. The Bureau requested the City of Trier to adopt this project and to establish a legal planning instrument for its implementation.
With regard to archaeological ...
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier
Country: Germany
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier
Country: Germany
In response to a request for information made by the Observer of Lebanon, the Bureau requested the German authorities to present, by 15 September 1997, a report on the state of conservation and development plans for the City of Quedlinburg. The Bureau also requested ICOMOS to undertake a mission to Quedlinburg to assess the situation, and to report to the extraordinary session of the Bureau.
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg
Country: Germany
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg
Country: Germany
The Bureau commended the Minister for Science, Research and Culture of the Land Brandenburg for the detailed report on the state of conservation of the site and the actions that have been taken to preserve the Potsdam cultural landscape.
The Bureau particularly welcomed the openness of the German authorities for dialogue and their commitment to seek compromise solutions. In particular, the Bureau took note of the commitments of the German authorities to:
- proceed with the extension of the World Heritage site as recommended ...
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
Country: Germany
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
Country: Germany
In view of the information provided by the Secretariat regarding the state of conservation of the Ajanta, Elephanta and Ellora Caves, and taking note with appreciation of the additional information provided by the Observer of India concerning the national and local efforts being made to safeguard these sites, the Bureau expressed its serious concern over the state of conservation of these sites, especially that of the advanced deterioriation of the wall paintings and insufficient visitor control at the site of Ajanta. In addressing the problem of water seepage, the Bureau recommended that ...
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Ajanta Caves Elephanta Caves Ellora Caves
Country: India
Session: 21st session of the Bureau (CONF 204)
Year: 1997
Sites: Ajanta Caves Elephanta Caves Ellora Caves
Country: India
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