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Australia: UN body calls Tasmania forest U-turn 'exceptional'

2014-02-04 21:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Australia's move to strip part of Tasmania's forest of its world heritage status one year after it was added is "very exceptional", the UN has told the Guardian, adding its experts could not recall such a case in recent years. A Unesco spokeswoman said changes to world heritage sites were not uncommon. But, to the agency's knowledge, the appeal to remove an area so soon after a national government had asked for its addition was unprecedented. "It is highly unusual that a boundary change entail...

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