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Peter Powder and Melody Lepine

The World Heritage Committee delivered a blistering assessment, concluding that threats to the Peace Athabasca Delta, pictured, from unresolved jurisdictional issues undermining its primary tributaries, contamination concerns from upstream industries, and other government actions put it at such risk that its outstanding values stand to be lost. Forever. Photograph courtesy of Wood Buffalo National Park collection
The World Heritage Committee delivered a blistering assessment, concluding that threats to the Peace Athabasca Delta, pictured, from unresolved jurisdictional issues undermining its primary tributaries, contamination concerns from upstream industries, and other government actions put it at such risk that its outstanding values stand to be lost. Forever. Photograph courtesy of Wood Buffalo National Park collection