The project – which would have seen the construction of thousands of apartments – has been found to pose an unacceptable risk to “rare,unique and important” wetlands.
Patches of subsurface peat in endangered swamps north of Denmark are still smouldering weeks after a WA government department set fire to the area as part of a prescribed burn.
Scientists identified more than 30 places for Ramsar status in 1999,but only three have been added.