Manas Wildlife Sanctuary (India) (N 338)
Decision:
34 COM 7A.12
The World Heritage Committee,
1.
Having examined Document WHC-10/34.COM/7A.Add,
2.
Recalling Decision 33 COM 7A.12, adopted at its 33rd session (Seville, 2009),
3.
Welcomes the State Party’s report which mentions important progress in the
implementation of the corrective measures and also provides some data on wildlife
populations but not on population trends as requested by the Committee and regrets that
the very late submission of the state of conservation report did not allow a proper
assessment of the data by IUCN;
4.
Reiterates its position that a clear upward trend in the populations of key wildlife species
needs to be demonstrated in order to enable removal of the property from the List of
World Heritage in Danger;
5.
Requests the State Party to provide the World Heritage Centre as soon as possible with
clear data on the trends of wildlife populations since the time of inscription, including
details on the available monitoring data on which these trends are based;
6.
Requests the State Party to invite a joint UNESCO/IUCN reactive monitoring mission to
the property, once the data on wildlife populations are provided, to evaluate the state of
conservation of the property and in particular review the available data on trends in wildlife
populations to assess their recovery and to advise on the consideration of the removal of
the property from the List of World Heritage in Danger at its 35th session in 2010;
7.
Requests the State Party to submit to the World Heritage Centre, by 1 February 2011, a
detailed report on the state of conservation of the properly and on the implementation of
the corrective measures, as well as on the progress made in the finalization and approval
of the management plan for the property, for examination by the World Heritage
Committee at its 35th session in 2011, with a view to considering the removal of the
property from the List of World Heritage in Danger;
8.
Decides to retain the Manas Wildlife Sanctuary (India) on the World Heritage List in
Danger.