Canada | Wood Buffalo NP may go on WH in Danger List after UNESCO criticizes remediation plans
- Dave Harmon, PW editor
- Jun 14, 2019
- 1 min read
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.
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