Gosh. I have to say I am flattered to have started such a debate! I fully agree with all of your comments and having been fortunate to have visited and photographed a lot of Rock Art sites in Libya am happy to confirm that most of them are so off the beaten track and relatively unknown that they should be there for a further 5-9000 years. I have also seen red ochre paintings wiped clean off the rock face over a five year span in Western Sahara by Guides keen to enhance the colours for visitor photographs. Gone! The thing that got me about the article was that it implied all of the litter was being generated by 'overlanders' and Tourists in trucks, 4x4s and on Bikes. This is simply not true. As Esteban touched on, the attitudes of many locals (for want of a better title) is that litter is somebody else's problem. This attitude will, I expect, remain unchanged for generations, but it is grossly unfair of the authors of this article to sit in their Ivory Towers and blame us. That's it. It's 6.00 pm on a Friday and I'm off for a pint - Timothy Taylors Landlord, if you are interested. May have two. Have a good weekend.
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