A República Democrática do Congo e sua lista de patrimônios mundiais em perigo: desafios entre o desaparecimento e a preservação

Abstract

Currently, there are 1157 World Heritage Sites, five of them in the Democratic Republic of Congo. And from this small set, four of them are on a parallel list: the so-called list of world heritage sites in danger by Unesco, which currently comprises 52 sites. The natural parks, Congolese world heritage sites are: Virunga National Parks; Kahuzi-Biega; Garamba and Okapi Reserve. The objective of this research, guided by environmental history, is to present the reasons that led four of the five Congolese world heritage sites to be inscribed on the alert list of heritage sites considered in danger of disappearing, in order to understand how the country has been consolidating itself as a of the least active in the African context regarding the effective protection of its world heritage. The aim is, primarily, to present the factors that triggered the entry of this set of Congolese heritage sites on the Unesco alert list and to analyze which structures the Congolese state has mobilized to reverse the contemporary situation of gradual loss of its world heritage.