Access to the ancient Murujuga rock art in WA’s Pilbara region would be improved, under plans to build a new tourist boardwalk at Deep Gorge. The Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation (MAC) and the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, which jointly manage the Murujuga National Park, have co-designed the proposal for the new boardwalk. The proposal includes a raised...
An interactive tourism precinct in the Murujuga National Park for people to learn about Aboriginal land and culture in the Pilbara is a step closer. Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation (MAC) has appointed RPS Group to undertake a comprehensive flora and fauna survey of the area around Conzinc Bay as part of the plan to create a tourism precinct, which will include a Living Knowledge Centre and...
The CEO of the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation said a recent tour of rock oyster farms in South Australia had been a valuable learning experience which could assist efforts to establish an industry in the Pilbara. Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation (MAC) CEO Peter Jeffries was joined by members of Maxima Pearling Company and the Pilbara Development Commission, which are currently undertaking a...
More than one million rock engravings on the Burrup Peninsula have survived as long as 40,000 years. But no one knows if they can withstand a century of industry and more development may be on the way before we find out. Called Murujuga by the traditional owners and once named Dampier Island, the Burrup over the past 50 years has attracted industries that have made Dampier the second-largest...
One of the world’s biggest and oldest galleries of ancient rock art will be nominated* for World Heritage listing. The gallery of Aboriginal art — some of which is more than 40,000 years old — is at the Burrup Peninsula, on the northwest coast of Western Australia. It is Australia’s largest rock art collection. A World Heritage listing would help inform people around the world that it...
The West Australian government has committed to pursuing a World Heritage listing for the rock art of Murujuga. MURUJUGA IS THE Aboriginal name for the Dampier Archipelago and the Burrup Peninsula in north west WA and is home to at least a million individual works of art. Australia has some of the world’s richest and most diverse rock art. While rock art is found all around the globe,...
The nomination process for World Heritage Listing to protect the ancient Aboriginal rock art at Murujuga (the Burrup) has been officially launched at an event at Hearsons Cove in the Pilbara. The Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation (MAC) which represents the traditional owners, the Ngarluma, Yinjibarndi, Yaburara, Mardudhunera and Wong-Goo-Tt-Oo people, has notified the State Government in writing...
A Senate report warning of damage to the 50,000-year-old treasures has persuaded the state government to act. The Western Australian government has formally committed to pursuing world heritage status for the Burrup peninsula, one of the oldest and richest examples of rock art in the world. It comes five months after a Senate inquiry report into managing the site warned that the cumulative...
More than 120,000 juvenile oysters have journeyed from Western Australia’s shellfish hatchery in Albany to their new home on the Dampier coast this week where they will grow out to market size as part of the Pilbara Rock Oyster Research and Development project. Produced from brood stock collected from the Dampier Archipelago earlier this year, the juvenile oysters will bolster the 3,000...
Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation (MAC) said it welcomed moves towards stricter conditions on an ammonium nitrate plant on the Burrup Peninsula to better protect the area’s ancient rock art. The Environmental Protection Authority has announced it’s investigating imposing further conditions on Yara Pilbara Nitrates to ensure emissions from its plant do not adversely affect the vast collection...