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U.N. rejects Australia's bid to strip rainforest of heritage status
2014-06-24 09:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The United Nations has unanimously rejected an Australian proposal to revoke the heritage status of 74,000 hectares (183,000 acres) of Tasmania's rainforest and enable them to be reopened to logging. Added to the World Heritage List in 1982, the Tasmanian Wilderness 'constitutes one of the last expanses of temperate rainforest in the world', says U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, and sprawls over more than one million hectares (2.47 million acres), or a fifth of the island. At a meeting in Doha,...
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