A committee formed to progress the Burrup Peninsula’s nomination for World Heritage listing held its first meeting in Karratha last week. The Murujuga World Heritage Committee aims to record the outstanding values of the Burrup, or Murujuga, and give advice about the nomination. It includes representatives from Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation and traditional owners of the Burrup, the...
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Concerns have been raised after people were seen climbing on the rocks at Deep Gorge in Murujuga National Park despite signs warning of the risk of falling rocks. People climbing on the rocks is not an unusual occurrence but they do so at a risk to both themselves and the rock art in the area. Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation chief executive Peter Jeffries said it was not the first time rangers...
The Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation (MAC) has raised concerns about people climbing on the rocks at Deep Gorge in Murujuga National Park. Deep Gorge is home to one of the biggest concentrations of rock art in the world and is culturally significant to Aboriginal people. MAC Chief Executive Officer Peter Jeffries said rangers had witnessed people climbing over the rock art on several...
The Western Australia Government is taking steps to better protect the world's largest collection of Aboriginal rock art (petroglyphs) in Western Australia's Pilbara region. Western Australian Environment Minister Stephen Dawson recently released the Murujuga Rock Art Strategy, providing a transparent, risk-based approach to managing and monitoring the rock art. Murujuga, located 1,300...
Working in partnership with Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation to protect rock art Transparent, risk-based approach to prevent harmful impacts to petroglyphs The McGowan Government is taking steps to better protect the world's largest collection of Aboriginal rock art (petroglyphs) in Western Australia's Pilbara region. Environment Minister Stephen Dawson today released the Murujuga...
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...