Canada | Wood Buffalo NP may go on WH in Danger List after UNESCO criticizes remediation plans

The status of Canada's largest park as a world heritage site remains wobbly after a United Nations body expressed grave doubts about a federal plan to rescue it.

"Considerably more effort will be needed to reverse the negative trends at a time when climate change combined with upstream industrial developments and resource extraction are intensifying," says a draft decision on Wood Buffalo National Park from UNESCO, which manages the UN's list of World Heritage Sites.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/canada-plan-for-wood-buffalo-not-enough-un-says-1.5174491

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