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Wood Buffalo National Park’s UNESCO status
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Can Canada preserve Wood Buffalo National Park’s UNESCO status?

Ottawa announced $60 million to protect Canada's largest national park after the UN warned it would be added to a list of World Heritage sites in danger due to industrial impacts from hydro development and the Alberta oilsands.

The International Joint Commission
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The watershed watchers: in conversation with the International Joint Commission

Canada and the U.S. are bound together by waterways that transcend political borders. But what happens when industrial development changes those waters in ways that could last hundreds of years? 
Two studies say oilsands' impact on northern water may be limited. First Nations disagree.

Two studies say oilsands' impact on northern water may be limited. First Nations disagree.

The Smith’s Landing and Mikisew Cree First Nations criticized studies challenging the view that southern development has damaged the Peace Athabasca Delta.
‘Projects of death’: Impact of hydro dams on environment, Indigenous communities highlighted at Winnipeg conference
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‘Projects of death’: Impact of hydro dams on environment, Indigenous communities highlighted at Winnipeg conference

Hundreds of individuals from all over the world gathered to discuss the devastating social and environmental impacts of large hydro dams.

Zambia halts plans to dam the Luangwa River
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Zambia halts plans to dam the Luangwa River

More than 200,000 people had signed a petition calling for the legal protection of the river.

‘This must be Canada’s last chance’: UN gives feds 18 months to save Wood Buffalo
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‘This must be Canada’s last chance’: UN gives feds 18 months to save Wood Buffalo

Canada’s largest national park will be added to list of World Heritage in Danger without further action to mitigate impacts of hydro dams and oilsands development on Peace-Athabasca delta
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