UNESCO saves Tasmanian heritage area from logging

UNESCO has rejected an Australian bid to open World Heritage-protected forest in Tasmania to logging.

World Heritage-protected forest in Tasmania has been spared, after Canberra asked the UN to open it to logging.

In a world first, the federal government had applied for 74,000 hectares to be removed from World Heritage protection just a year after UNESCO moved to preserve it.

But UNESCO's world heritage committee has rejected the Australian application.

Gary Cox reports.

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