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Arab Environmental Monitor

July 14, 2007

For the first time in its history, UNESCO World Heritage Programme had to take the bad decision of removing one site from its glamorous list of global natural wonders, and the site in question is an Arabian Oryx sanctuary in Oman.

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Haaretz / Jordan Times

February 15, 2007

By Margaret Beckett

[listserve note: published in both Jordan Times and Haaretz, unusual for the region]

All too often the news is dominated by conflict and disagreement. Then a threat of such magnitude comes along that it forcefully reminds us of our common humanity - in other words just how much all of us, whatever our background, creed or colour hold in common. For our generation that threat is climate change.

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