NEWS TREK
ART
VANDALISM
Photo courtesy:
wildrocks.com.au
The Burrup Peninsula in the Pilbara region of
Western Australia have witnessed and abuse
of aboriginal rock art vandalism. The region
possesses the world’s oldest as well as the
largest aboriginal carvings and is the
country’s biggest resource projects.
Geoffrey Togo, the senior cultural ranger
points that, these ancient rock heritage is as
definitive, invaluable, irreplaceable and a
treasure like the Bible. Togo further adds,
"This is the oldest rock art in the world, and
people tend to still climb over it and do a bit
of damage in all different ways. The main one
we seem to be finding lately is people spray
painting on rock art, and on the face of rocks,
and some other old carvings.”
Some portion of this great land was declared
as the Murujuga National Park and have been
transferred the ownership of the mentioned
area to the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation.
Since then, the rangers of this Corporation
have be