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Australian government abandons campaign to log World Heritage forest
2016-03-20 06:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Australian government ended its push to log World Heritage-listed forests on the southern island state of Tasmania on Sunday, after the United Nations cultural agency UNESCO issued a report calling for the area to remain protected from logging. Australia's government in 2014 sought unsuccessfully to have parts of the Tasmanian wilderness, some one million hectares (2.47 million acres) or a fifth of the island, removed from UNESCO's World Heritage listing to enable logging. A United Nations...
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