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Australia Protests UN Plan to List Great Barrier Reef as ‘In Danger’
June 22, 2021
This aerial photos shows the Great Barrier Reef in Australia on Dec. 2, 2017. (Kyodo News via AP)
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Australia has criticized a United Nations plan to declare the country’s Great Barrier Reef “in danger” from climate change.
The U.N.’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) proposed this week that the Great Barrier Reef be added to its List of World Heritage in Danger.
A UNESCO committee report said this week it had found that “there is no possible
Wednesday, 23 Jun 2021 07:52 AM MYT
Oliver Lanyon, Senior Ranger in the Great Barrier Reef region for the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, takes photographs and notes during an inspection of the reef’s condition in this picture released April 20, 2015. Reuters pic
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BRISBANE, June 23 Australia said yesterday it will strongly oppose a Unesco plan to list the Great Barrier Reef as being “in danger” over deterioration caused by climate change.
The UN body released a draft report on Monday recommending the reef’s World Heritage status be downgraded because of its dramatic coral decline, after years of public threats to do so.
June 23, 2021
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA (AP) – Australia said yesterday it will fight against plans to downgrade the Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status due to climate change, while environmentalists have applauded the United Nations (UN) World Heritage Committee’s proposal.
The committee said in a draft report on Monday that “there is no possible doubt” that the network of colourful corals off Australia’s northeast coast was “facing ascertained danger.”
The report recommended that the world’s most extensive coral reef ecosystem be added to UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger, which includes 53 sites, when the World Heritage Committee considers the question in China in July.
June 22, 2021 5:37 pm
Associated PressThis aerial photos shows the Great Barrier Reef in Australia on Dec. 2, 2017. Australia said Tuesday, June 22, 2021, it will fight a recommendation for the Great Barrier Reef to be listed as in danger of losing its World Heritage values due to climate change, while environmentalists have applauded the U.N. World Heritage Committee s.
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) Australia said Tuesday it will fight against plans to downgrade the Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status due to climate change, while environmentalists have applauded the U.N. World Heritage Committee’s proposal.
The committee said in a draft report on Monday that “there is no possible doubt” that the network of colorful corals off Australia’s northeast coast was “facing ascertained danger.”