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  1. #Murujuga 50,000 year old & largest #rockart site in the world with 2 million #petroglyphs / rock engravings spread across the #Burrup Peninsula, part of the Dampier Archipelago in WA’s #Pilbara region. These include long-extinct megafauna, marine mammals and archaic faces - the oldest known depictions of the human face on earth.

    fara.com.au/

    #climatecrisis #fossilfuels

  2. Murujuga petroglyphs - putting a "very rosy spin" on the scientific findings

    "Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt was advised emissions from Woodside's Karratha Gas Plant may be having an adverse effect on the rock art, before he granted the company an extension to keep operating there for another 40 years."

    "A top statistician says he quit a landmark study into whether heavy industry is damaging ancient rock art in Western Australia's north after the government misrepresented his team's key finding. Misstating the results of an expensive scientific investigation is unacceptable and I think that's what's happened."
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    abc.net.au/news/2025-10-02/mur
    #petroglyphs #Murujuga ##harm #degradation #RockArt #IndigenousPeoples #air #IndustrialPollution #pollution #FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #Burrup #science #ScientificReview #governance #culture #values

  3. Australian environment law and ongoing degradation

    "Approval of the North West Shelf extension shows the purpose of the EPBC Act is to allow developments, not to protect and preserve.

    "Australia’s law that is supposed to protect the environment and cultural heritage doesn’t work. There are few, if any, people who argue otherwise.

    "The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act, introduced by the Howard government in 1999, is misnamed. Its main role is to allow developments to be approved."
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    theguardian.com/environment/20
    #EPBCAct #law #EPA #biodiversity #degradation #EnvironmentalLaw #CulturalHeritage #FossilFuels #pollution #climate #petroglyphs #Murujuga #governance #Australia #conservation #extractivism