The politics of preservation: as Australia celebrates the listing of its 15th World Heritage site, Ian Connellan reflects on the heady mix of politics, conservation and constitutional crisis that have surrounded the nation's World Heritage listings.(Australia Special) From: Geographical | Date: September 1, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 Campion Interactive Publishing Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Visible from any elevated point in Sydney, the Blue Mountains appear as a low range of hills shrouded in a bluish haze--thought to be caused by fire delicate mist of eucalyptus oil that hangs over the region's millions of gum trees, scattering sunlight. From a distance, the mountains are decidedly unspectacular; there are no soaring, solitary monoliths, no snow caps.

But the haze hides a few world-class natural truths, and these are precisely the reason why the Greater Blue Mountains Area was declared Australia's 14th World Heritage site in 2000.

Behind the somewhat banal ...

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