The Week Ahead: It’s our back yard

The approval of Greenland’s third World Heritage Site shows that the areas that host them are aware of their value. That may put them at odds with conservationists who place a different sort of value on the designation.

By Kevin McGwin July 2, 2018
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A third Greenlandic site — Aasivissuit-Nipisat, an area nicknamed “the Inuit hunting ground between sea and ice” — was added to the list of UN-approved World Heritage Sites on Saturday.

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