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Changing Kakadu into an Industrial Landscape. The case for placing Kakadu on the 'In Danger' list (1999)

AuteurACF, FOE, Wilderness Society
Datumjuli 1999
Classificatie 4.22.5.12/04 (AUSTRALIË - MIJNEN - JABILUKA)
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Uit de publicatie:

The Importance of Inscribing the Kakadu World Heritage Site on the List of 
World Heritage in Danger

The proposed Jabiluka uranium mine which is being constructed within an enclave 
of the Kakadu World Heritage Site, Australia, has become a threshold issue for 
the World Heritage Convention.

The Kakadu World Heritage Site is clearly being damaged now and faces 
accumulating damage from the ongoing construction of the mine. How the 
World Heritage Committee handles this issue will set benchmarks for the 
World Heritage Convention not just in Australia, but around the world.

We respectfully submit that the World Heritage Committee's obligations to place 
Kakadu on the List of World Heritage in Danger are clear. A high powered Field 
Mission led by the then Chairman of the World Heritage Committee, Francisco 
Francioni, and composed of the then Director of the World Heritage Centre, the 
current Deputy Director-General of IUCN, and experts from ICOMOS, concluded 
that the Jabiluka uranium mine should not proceed, if the cultural and natural 
World Heritage values of Kakadu were to be protected.

After due consideration the World Heritage Bureau and the World Heritage 
Committee endorsed the findings of the Field Mission report and called for a halt 
to mine construction, by a vote of 20 to 1. Since then mine construction has 
continued and damage to the site has compounded. It is clear that the Australian 
Government never had any intention of complying with the request of the 
Committee to halt mine construction, and has no intention of doing so in the future.

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