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Unesco blocks Australias proposals to open up Tasmanian rainforest to logging

2014-06-25 12:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: The UN has rejected a proposal from the Australian government to revoke the special protection afforded to 74,000 hectares of Tasmanian rainforest, in order to allow logging operations in the region to resume. The controversial request was unanimously rejected within just seven minutes at a meeting of the Unescos world heritage committee in Doha, as delegates from Germany, Colombia and Portugal argued against the delisting. The news agency Reuters reported that members of the Portuguese delegation...

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