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,...
Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation (MAC)
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...
A senator involved in a long-awaited inquiry into the future of Australia's globally significant rock art on Western Australia's Burrup Peninsula says she is deeply concerned it failed to reach a consensus agreement. The Senate report, handed down late yesterday after a year of delays, only agreed that the site, known as Murujuga, was significant and should be protected. The inquiry was sparked...
120,000 baby oysters have made their way from Albany to the Pilbara and will be released off the Dampier coast at the Flying Foam Passage this morning. The baby oysters will be monitored by the Murujuga Rangers as they grow to market size To view the video click here Source:...