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Article: Fed: Aust changes to World Heritage rules under attack
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- March 15, 2003
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Fed: Aust changes to World Heritage rules under attack
CANBERRA, March 15 AAP - Conservationists fear that an Australian
push for veto power
over the World Heritage Committee next week will potentially open
World Heritage-listed
areas to mining and logging.
The federal government proposed in 2000 changing the World Heritage
Convention guidelines
so that Australia could veto an attempt to have Kakadu National Park
listed as World Heritage
in danger.
The government rejected the charge that Kakadu's World Heritage
values were threatened
by the Jabiluka uranium mine excavation inside its boundaries.
Changes that would give all host nations such a veto power ...