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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Graham Readfearn Environment and climate correspondent

What Australia must do to overturn objections for WA rock art to attain UN heritage status

Murujuga national park sign
There are between 1m and 2m pieces of rock art across the Murujuga cultural landscape in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. Photograph: Krystle Wright/The Guardian

The federal government is in the final throes of a lobbying campaign to secure UN world heritage status for a globally significant rock art site in Western Australia.

The federal environment minister, Murray Watt, will be in Paris this week to convince the 21-country world heritage committee to ignore concerns about industrial emissions at Murujuga, and instead place the site on the world heritage list.

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