Nevertheless, logging continued to endanger the last intact forest landscapes of northern European Russia.
The zone, about halfway between Hawaii and Fiji, will conserve one of Earth's last intact oceanic coral archipelago ecosystems.
Because Nepal has been much better than China in preserving Tibetan tradition, Dolpo is the last intact region of Tibetan culture".
LeVine said a spill would have "catastrophic effects on the area's wildlife and devastate one of the last intact marine ecosystems in the world".
It was one of Greenpeace's most successful campaigns to protect large areas of the world's last intact rainforests providing both climate and biodiversity protection.
It survives as the last intact original example of le goût Rothschild, the sumptuous 19th-century taste of the far-flung members of the legendary banking family.
Hanging in the balance, Tesla historians and preservationist said, is the fate of the last intact Tesla workplace anywhere in the world and a gem of Long Island history too long left in the rough.
The last intact section of one of Antarctica's mammoth ice shelves is weakening fast and will likely disintegrate completely in the next few years, contributing further to rising sea levels, according to a Nasa study released on Thursday.
The mountain, which is privately owned and leased to coal interests, is also one of the last intact mountaintops in a region whose contours have otherwise been irreversibly altered by extreme surface-mining techniques.
The Ross Sea is a deep bay in the Southern Ocean that many scientists consider to be the last intact marine ecosystem on Earth – a living laboratory ideally suited for investigating life in the Antarctic and how climate change is affecting the planet.
The United States has blocked the release of a landmark assessment of oil and gas activity in the Arctic as it prepares to sell off exploration licences for the frozen Chukchi Sea off Alaska, one of the last intact habitats of the polar bear.
