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Australia proposes removing old-growth forest from World Heritage Site
2014-02-03 14:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Last year, after decades of fighting, environmentalists and the forestry industry reached a landmark agreement that added 170,000 hectares of old-growth forest in Tasmania as a part of a World Heritage Site. But less than a year later and that so-called peace agreement is in danger of unraveling. The new Australian government, under Prime Minister Tony Abbott, is going ahead with removing 74,000 hectares (43 percent) from the World Heritage site. Australia's Environment Minister, Greg Hunt, contends...
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