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Fencing planned to protect sacred sites from camels

Work has begun to protect sacred sites from the huge number of marauding camels in central Australia.

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Greening Australia spokesman Peter Barker says special fences have been designed to keep camels away from sacred sites like water rock holes.

"Some of these isolated holes, people only get out there for special business and it's difficult for them to maintain these if they are electric for that long," he said.

"[We are] coming up with a type of fence, effectively a 100 mill pipe, three of four strands of eight mill cable between them, cemented in every four metres. Sufficiently strong to keep out camels from these sites."

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So Greening Australia is paying to protect Aboriginal sacred sites! Why isn't ATSIC or the local Aboriginal councils paying for this themselves. I imagine the cost of the fencing will not be insubstantial. Also what happened to all the secrecy of "sacred" sites if whitey strangers are allowed to go there and fence them in???

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I think they should advertise for Aussie shooters to come up and do some camel hunting instead!

Save a lot of fencing.

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John aka NitroX

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