Question

How do people spoil/damage our heritage?
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Answer 1

Answer:

Armed conflict and war, earthquakes and other natural disasters, pollution, poaching, uncontrolled urbanization and unchecked tourist development pose major problems to World Heritage sites.

For cultural properties

Ascertained Danger

The property is faced with specific and proven imminent danger, such as:

serious deterioration of materials;

serious deterioration of structure and/or ornamental features;

serious deterioration of architectural or town-planning coherence;

serious deterioration of urban or rural space, or the natural environment;

significant loss of historical authenticity;

important loss of cultural significance.

Potential Danger

The property is faced with threats which could have deleterious effects on its inherent characteristics. Such threats are, for example:

modification of juridical status of the property diminishing the degree of its protection;

lack of conservation policy;

threatening effects of regional planning projects;

threatening effects of town planning;

outbreak or threat of armed conflict;

threatening impacts of climatic, geological or other environmental factors.

For natural properties

Ascertained Danger

The property is faced with specific and proven imminent danger, such as:

A serious decline in the population of the endangered species or the other species of Outstanding Universal Value for which the property was legally established to protect, either by natural factors such as disease or by human‑made factors such as poaching.

Severe deterioration of the natural beauty or scientific value of the property, as by human settlement, construction of reservoirs which flood important parts of the property, industrial and agricultural development including use of pesticides and fertilizers, major public works, mining, pollution, logging, firewood collection, etc.

Human encroachment on boundaries or in upstream areas which threaten the integrity of the property.

Potential Danger

The property is faced with major threats which could have deleterious effects on its inherent characteristics. Such threats are, for example:

a modification of the legal protective status of the area;

planned resettlement or development projects within the property or so situated that the impacts threaten the property;

outbreak or threat of armed conflict;

the management plan or management system is lacking or inadequate, or not fully implemented.

threatening impacts of climatic, geological or other environmental factors.