Mongabay: The UNESCO World Heritage Committee today unanimously rejected a controversial proposal by the Australian government to strip 74,000 hectares of temperate rainforest from a World Heritage Site in Tasmania. In an embarrassing setback for the Australia government, it took the committee less than ten minutes to unanimously reject the proposal, according to the Guardian.
The 74,000 hectares in question were a part of a so-called "peace deal" between environmentalists and loggers in Tasmania, which...