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World Heritage Committee takes 10 min reject Australia's bid to strip forests of protection
2014-06-23 22:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
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...
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UN rejects Australia 'feeble' bid to strip Tasmanian forest's heritage status
2014-06-23 18:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Unesco has unanimously rejected a feeble Australian government bid to reopen 74,000 hectares of Tasmanias world heritage area to logging. At its annual meeting in Doha, the Unesco World Heritage Committee said the Australian government had failed to provide compelling evidence that areas added to the site only last year were detracting from the overall value of the area. No committee members defended the Australian cause as the proposal was discarded in less than ten minutes. Portugals...
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Australia: Tasmanian forests on agenda as World Heritage Committee meeting gets underway in Qatar
2014-06-16 17:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has begun its annual meeting in Qatar, where a decision will be made on the Federal Government's application to have 74,000 hectares of Tasmanian forests delisted. The committee, meeting in Doha, is expected to deal with the matter later in the week. If the Government's application is successful, it would be a first for a developed country. The Government claims the area it wants delisted is already "degraded", having been logged before. Opponents say...
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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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Australia: Saving Tasmania's forests
2014-06-12 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Imagine the uproar if the Grand Canyon was dug up for mining. The protests if the bells of Notre Dame were melted down for car parts. There are not many places in the world precious enough for World Heritage listing, so many countries covet this lucrative international recognition. These natural and cultural places are so significant, so exceptional that to deprive the world and future generations of them would be a tragedy. Tasmania's old-growth forests have been included on the World Heritage...
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