- Parks Victoria announce “temporary protection zone” around Australia’s best climbing areas
- All access, including bush-walking is prohibited as of today
- Climbing access organizations VCC & ACAV were given no advance notice of these bans
- Gariwerd Wimmera Reconciliation Network has been consulting with PV & TOs about these site closures since at least June
- Bans cannot be adjusted until after new management plan is announced (next year at earliest)
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Declaration Protection – It’s Official
Many people woke this morning to the dramatic news on the radio that Arapiles was now closed. Thanks ABC for giving us all a pre-coffee heart attack! Lucky it was just media hype. But what really happened is newsworthy all the same.
Continue reading Declaration Protection – It’s OfficialParks Victoria Admits Heritage Regulations “Unsustainable”
- PV questions if regulations are an effective use of Gov funds
- Cultural heritage plans have led to minimal overall benefit
- Excessive costs led to heritage protection project cancellations
- PV only completed protection work at 4% of Vic rock art sites in 2017