Members of the Tasmanian Aboriginal community looking over forests in the Florentine Valley in southern Tasmania. Photo: Peter Mathew UNESCO's World Heritage Committee has summarily dismissed the Abbott government's bid to wind back protection from Tasmanian forests. The committee meeting in Doha took just seven minutes to consider the bid, which member nation Portugal called "feeble", and setting an unacceptable precedent for the future. No country spoke in favour of the bid to de-list 74,00 hectares of old growth forest, which official cultural and natural values advisers told the meeting would weaken the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. Bob Brown: "Global diplomatic...
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