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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Tory Shepherd

Destruction of sacred Flinders Ranges sand hills ‘heartbreaking’, say traditional owners

The Flinders Ranges in South Australia photographed at sunset.
The Flinders Ranges in South Australia. The damage to sacred sand hills on the disturbed land of the Adnyamathanha people happened during work on a planned fence. Photograph: Stuart Walmsley/Getty Images

Traditional owners have described the destruction of sacred Aboriginal sites in South Australia during an attempt to fence off a national park as “totally heartbreaking”.

The damage to Flinders Ranges sand hills happened during work on a planned fence to stop stock from an adjoining cattle station from going into the recently established Nilpena Ediacara National Park, on the land of the Adnyamathanha people.

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