From crumbling rock art to exposed ancestral remains, climate change is ravaging our precious Indigenous heritage

Jarrad Kowlessar/courtesy of Gumurr Marthakal Indigenous Rangers

Climate change is rapidly intensifying. Amid the chaos and damage it wreaks, many precious Indigenous heritage sites in Australia and around the world are being destroyed at an alarming rate.

Sea-level rise, flooding, worsening bushfires and other human-caused climate events put many archaeological and heritage sites at risk. Already, culturally significant Indigenous sites have been lost or are gravely threatened.