Peter Garrett rejects heritage call to protect eucalypt forests
Matthew Denholm; 8/7/08
Australia will defy a call by the 21-nation World Heritage Committee to extend Tasmania’s Wilderness World Heritage Area to include tracts of tall eucalypt forests scheduled for logging. The WHC meeting in Quebec called on Canberra to “consider extension of the property to include appropriate areas of tall eucalypt forests”… Mr Garrett said this report had found a further extension was not warranted “as the WHA already includes a good representation of tall eucalypts”. However, he accepted “in principle” the WHC recommendations that the 1.3million-hectare wilderness WHA be extended to include 21 existing areas of national park and state reserves bordering it.
See: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23985607-5013404,00.html
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