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| Subject: Scenically beautiful: OZschwitz coalition plan to strip Tasmania forest of World Heritage status Tue May 06, 2014 8:57 pm | |
| The federal government's unprecedented bid to strip Tasmanian forests of World Heritage status was put together without any external advice, a Senate committee has heard.
The original case to list 170,000 hectares of mainly forested land as World Heritage emerged as part of the most comprehensive regional forests review ever undertaken in Australia, the committee was told.
The extension to the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area gained the backing of the World Conservation Union and the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and was unanimously approved by the World Heritage Committee in 2013.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/coalition-plan-to-strip-tasmania-forest-of-world-heritage-status-was-made-without-external-review-20140506-zr5pf.html#ixzz30zFtBipj |
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