An Indigenous group and conservationists claim Aboriginal heritage sites on Tasmania's northwest coast have been damaged by off-road 4WD use.
The area contains the remains of numerous hut depressions found in 40,000 Aboriginal shell middens.Ancient Aboriginal sites on Tasmania's rugged and national heritage-listed northwest coast have been "destroyed" by off-road 4WD users, an Indigenous group and conservationists claim.
"They weren't ever landscapes subjected to 4WD vehicles, tearing through those sites. We're seeing sensitive vegetation being destroyed shorebird nesting and breeding disturbed." State Liberal minister Felix Ellis, who represents the electorate of Braddon which covers the west coast, described the situation as "not black and white".Menindee locals challenge authorities to drink tap water following mass fish kill in river
"We need to obviously manage the heritage there, it is really significant heritage. But also provide people access to their country."
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