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Environmentalists await Unesco verdict on future of protected Tasmanian forests

2014-06-16 16:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: The Unesco world heritage committee is about to rule on a proposal to have 74,000 hectares of Tasmanian forest delisted in order to open it up to the timber industry. It is also debating whether or not to list the Great Barrier Reef as highly endangered because of pollution. If the forests were delisted, Australia would be the first developed country to have the protected status of a natural environment reversed on economic grounds. The government has claimed that the area subjected to logging...

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