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Australia: Coalition misled UN over bid to strip heritage listing from Tasmanian forest

2014-03-13 04:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The government has been accused of misleading the UN in its bid to strip world heritage protection from tracts of Tasmanian forest, after the release of pictures purportedly showing that ecologically pristine areas will be delisted. Bob Brown, the former Greens leader, has released a tranche of photos from the Weld Valley, one of several areas where the government wants to remove a total of 74,000 hectares of the world heritage protection. Brown said the images were evidence that 90% of the...

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