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Arctic, South Pacific landscapes added to World Heritage List (click title to entry - thank you)
Committee considered addition of 32 new sites, six of which are natural landscapes
OurAmazingPlanet
updated 8/2/2010 5:45:39 PM ET
...Last week, the WHC announced that the Rainforests of Atsinanana and Florida's Everglades National Park were being added to another list – the World Heritage Sites in Danger. This "danger list" focuses international attention and sometimes funding on particularly vulnerable areas. Also last week, the group removed the Galapagos Islands from the danger list, against the recommendations of conservation groups.
France's Reunion Island contains the most significant remaining natural habitats, including a rare forest type, for the conservation of terrestrial biodiversity in the Mascarene Island Archipelago, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar. Towering volcanoes, including steep rock walls and natural amphitheatres, as well as deep forested gorges and escarpments form dramatic scenery of striking beauty.
"La Reunion contains an impressive mosaic of dramatic landscapes and very valuable ecosystems and also serves as a last refuge for the many threatened and endangered species on the entire Mascarene Archipelago," said Tim Badman, Head of IUCN's World Heritage Programme. "Controlling alien invasive species will be an ongoing challenge in the management of this property."...
2002
President George W. Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush signed an agreement on January 9 providing a total of $7.8 billion for the Everglades restoration project. The federal and state governments will share the cost.
http://fcelter.fiu.edu/about_us/everglades/history_and_culture/
Neverglades? - Updates - Florida Governor Jeb Bush delays cleanup of the Everglades - Brief Article
Sierra, Sept-Oct, 2003
The 1994 Everglades Forever Act, a cleanup agreement passed by the state legislature, promised to revitalize the nation's most famous wetlands by 2006. That promise was broken in May when Governor Jeb Bush signed a bill delaying the deadline by ten years and relaxing water-quality standards.
The bill was backed by the sugar industry, whose plantation operations contribute much of the phosphorus-laden runoff that threatens the Everglades' health. (See "Lay of the Land," January/February, page 10.)
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1525/is_5_88/ai_109027772/Humidity :: 68%
