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Fossil records earn Quebec island world heritage statusAccording to UNESCO's website, Quebec's largest island is the most complete and best-preserved paleontological record of the first mass extinction of animal life.CanadaSep 19, 2023
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Alberta’s Writing-on-Stone preserving Blackfoot heritage despite continued vandalismIn 2019, after years of advocacy, Writing-on-Stone joined five other Alberta locations such as the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.FeaturesMay 21, 2022
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Peru to plant 1 million trees around Machu Picchu siteMachu Picchu was rediscovered in 1911, after having been swallowed by the jungle.EnvironmentJan 13, 2020
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Pimachiowin Aki boreal forest officially a World Heritage SitePimachiowin Aki boreal forest is officially a World Heritage Site.CanadaJul 1, 2018
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Stretch of Canadian boreal forest deemed a UNESCO world heritage siteA stretch of boreal forest along the Manitoba-Ontario boundary has won international recognition for its pristine environment and connection with Indigenous culture.CanadaJul 1, 2018
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Wood Buffalo National Park is threatened by industry, climate change: environmental assessmentAn environmental assessment provided to UNESCO says oilsands activity, climate change and hydro development are fundamentally changing the environment of Wood Buffalo National Park in northern Alberta.EnvironmentJun 26, 2018
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Wood Buffalo World Heritage Site ‘significantly threatened’: international scientistsOne of the world's largest groups of conservation scientists says Canada's biggest national park is one of the most threatened World Heritage Sites in North America.CanadaNov 15, 2017
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Sewage fight: Activist charged with assaulting mayor in historic Nova Scotia townBill Flower, who also runs a charter boat company, says he has been charged with assault after allegedly smeared sewage on Lunenburg Mayor Rachel BaileyCanadaOct 11, 2017
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Groups want Wood Buffalo National Park on list of World Heritage Sites in dangerFirst Nations and environmental groups want the federal government to revisit its approval of British Columbia's Site C dam which they say would threaten a national park that is a World Heritage Site.EnvironmentOct 3, 2016
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UN looks at BC hydro project’s potential impact on Alberta world heritage siteA United Nations monitoring mission to a world heritage site in northern Alberta appears likely to focus more attention on the contested Site C hydroelectric project next door in British Columbia.EnvironmentSep 28, 2016
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