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Lanzarote faces losing its eco status

By Caelainn Barr in London and Mark Mulligan in Madrid

Published: July 5 2010 19:05 | Last updated: July 5 2010 19:05

Lanzarote, the Canary Islands tourist destination, faces the possibility of losing a valuable environmental classification because of illegal overdevelopment of coastal areas.

EU-structural-funds-graphicAccording to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco), the Spanish island’s unique “Reservation of the Biosphere” status, awarded in 1993, is under review because of hotel developers’ breaches of local planning rules.

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