Aborigines tell UN team Kakadu park at risk

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A U.N. World Heritage committee inspecting Australia's
Kakadu national park should immediately place it on the endangered list
because of plans to create a uranium mine in the park, Aborigines said
Tuesday. Jacqui Katona, spokeswoman for the Mirrar Aboriginal people, said
the area's traditional landowners had told the U.N. team the mine would
destroy Aboriginal culture in Kakadu - one of the reasons the park was
granted World Heritage listing. "The Mirrar have put a very strong case
about the political and social attacks that their culture has suffered as a
result of the imposition of uranium mining and that represents the heart of
the threat," Katona told Reuters by telephone from Kakadu. See full story
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