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- Published 20170502
- ISBN: 9781925498356
- Extent: 264pp
- Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook
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The geography of respect
Starting in 2019, Parks Victoria closed or restricted access for climbers to much of Gariwerd-Grampians while it assessed cultural heritage and worked with Traditional Owners and conservation experts to develop the Greater Gariwerd Landscape Management Plan (GGLMP). These closures drew strong reactions from many climbers. They saw Parks Victoria’s actions as impinging on their rights, and its apparent focus on climbing as a risk to cultural heritage and environmental integrity as overblown. They criticised the government’s lack of communication and consultation with climbing groups and its ‘demonising’ of the sport. They also claimed economic concerns: regional tourism operators would be among the hardest hit around Gariwerd-Grampians, and in other areas where access restrictions were also being enacted, climbing stores, accommodation providers and even whole towns (specifically Natimuk, in relation to restrictions at Dyurrite-Mount Arapiles) allegedly faced financial turmoil. A website called Save Grampians Climbing sprang up to advocate for these and other issues and to rail against Parks Victoria. An online petition to ‘stop climbing from being banned in the Grampians’ gained almost 35,000 signatures.
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