Quebec's Anticosti Island recognized as a UNESCO world heritage site – Winnipeg Free Press
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MONTREAL - Ten years after Quebec's government wanted to launch oil and gas exploration on Anticosti Island, the picturesque territory in the Gulf of St. Lawrence has been added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Author of the article: Postmedia News Publishing date: Apr 01, 2021 • 3 days ago • 4 minute read • Anticosti Island is home to some 125,000 deer — and fewer than 250 people. A deer peers from the forest on August 13, 2013 on Anticosti Island, Canada. Between 800 and 1,000 tourists are expected to visit Anticosti in the summer of 2013, but every Fall as many as 4,000 hunters come to the island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The size of the French island of Corsica in the Mediterranean, Anticosti has only 216 inhabitants. Quebec's Petrolia gas exploration company announce...