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GERMANY: Brewers seek UNESCO World Heritage status for purity laws

2013-12-05 14:58:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com

Germany's medieval beer purity law may soon be classed alongside Angkor Wat and the Pyramids at Giza.

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Logging endangers UNESCO World Heritage Site in Solomon Islands

2013-06-23 01:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: A world heritage site in the Solomon Islands is "in danger" due to logging, warns the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The East Rennell area of the Solomon Islands was inscribed on the list of world heritage sites in 1998 for its forests and coral reefs. East Rennell is the world's largest coral atoll. According to UNESCO, logging in the area is threatening East Rennell's marine ecosystems. "The World Heritage Committee determined that logging is threatening...

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Peru: Gas giant backtracks on exploration in UNESCO World Heritage Site

2013-02-18 01:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Survival International: The Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol has publicly backtracked on plans to expand the notorious Camisea gas project in southeast Peru into one of the most biodiverse places on earth, following a shock exposure this week by The Guardian newspaper and Survival International. The company has released a statement in which it admitted planning what it described as 'superficial geological studies for scientific interest,` in Manu National Park, but promising that it had now abandoned these plans. The...

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