VII.2 Srebarna Nature Reserve (Bulgaria) At its nineteenth
session (Berlin, 1995) the Committee had requested the Bulgarian
authorities to submit a threat mitigation status report to its
twenty-second session in 1998. The Bulgarian authorities
submitted the report requested by the Committee on Srebarna
Nature Reserve, on 28 August 1998, and invited the Centre and
IUCN to field a mission to verify the results of measures
undertaken to mitigate threats to the integrity of Srebarna. A
team consisting of one specialist each from IUCN and the Ramsar
Convention Secretariat, and a consultant representing the
Centre, visited Srebarna and Sofia, Bulgaria, from 1 to 6
October 1998. The Committee reviewed a summary of the report
submitted by the mission team, which included: (i) a brief
description of Srebarna's World Heritage values; (ii) causes
which led to the decline in Srebarna's ecology and state of
conservation and its inclusion in the List of World Heritage in
Danger in 1992; (iii) principal findings concerning