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People are now banned from climbing banculturedecadesgiantimportantindigenousinitiallyitlocalmemonolithofficiallyoneparliamentrecognitionrespectstoriestinyvisitorsworld of the most sacred sites in banculturedecadesgiantimportantindigenousinitiallyitlocalmemonolithofficiallyoneparliamentrecognitionrespectstoriestinyvisitorsworld Australian culture. The world's largest banculturedecadesgiantimportantindigenousinitiallyitlocalmemonolithofficiallyoneparliamentrecognitionrespectstoriestinyvisitorsworld, the giant Uluru in the desert of Australia's Northern Territory, is now banculturedecadesgiantimportantindigenousinitiallyitlocalmemonolithofficiallyoneparliamentrecognitionrespectstoriestinyvisitorsworld off-limits to tourists and climbers. It will be closed from October 25 in banculturedecadesgiantimportantindigenousinitiallyitlocalmemonolithofficiallyoneparliamentrecognitionrespectstoriestinyvisitorsworld of the site's cultural significance to the banculturedecadesgiantimportantindigenousinitiallyitlocalmemonolithofficiallyoneparliamentrecognitionrespectstoriestinyvisitorsworld Anangu traditional owners. The banculturedecadesgiantimportantindigenousinitiallyitlocalmemonolithofficiallyoneparliamentrecognitionrespectstoriestinyvisitorsworld site was once known as Ayers Rock, before it reverted to its historic name of Uluru. It has been a major attraction for banculturedecadesgiantimportantindigenousinitiallyitlocalmemonolithofficiallyoneparliamentrecognitionrespectstoriestinyvisitorsworld. Tourists from around the world have flocked there in droves to climb the rock. However, it is a sacred site in Anangu banculturedecadesgiantimportantindigenousinitiallyitlocalmemonolithofficiallyoneparliamentrecognitionrespectstoriestinyvisitorsworld. The Anangu custodians of the rock have long campaigned for the banculturedecadesgiantimportantindigenousinitiallyitlocalmemonolithofficiallyoneparliamentrecognitionrespectstoriestinyvisitorsworld.

The ban was banculturedecadesgiantimportantindigenousinitiallyitlocalmemonolithofficiallyoneparliamentrecognitionrespectstoriestinyvisitorsworld announced in 2017 and most visitors complied with banculturedecadesgiantimportantindigenousinitiallyitlocalmemonolithofficiallyoneparliamentrecognitionrespectstoriestinyvisitorsworld. Australia's tourist association said that only 16 per cent of banculturedecadesgiantimportantindigenousinitiallyitlocalmemonolithofficiallyoneparliamentrecognitionrespectstoriestinyvisitorsworld have actually climbed the rock since 2017. Local Anangu man Rameth Thomas, who grew up in a banculturedecadesgiantimportantindigenousinitiallyitlocalmemonolithofficiallyoneparliamentrecognitionrespectstoriestinyvisitorsworld community near Uluru, explained to the BBC how banculturedecadesgiantimportantindigenousinitiallyitlocalmemonolithofficiallyoneparliamentrecognitionrespectstoriestinyvisitorsworld the rock is to his people. He said: "That place is a very sacred place. That's like our church. I've been telling them since I was a little boy: 'We don't want you to climb the rock.'" He added: "All of our banculturedecadesgiantimportantindigenousinitiallyitlocalmemonolithofficiallyoneparliamentrecognitionrespectstoriestinyvisitorsworld are on the rock. People right around the banculturedecadesgiantimportantindigenousinitiallyitlocalmemonolithofficiallyoneparliamentrecognitionrespectstoriestinyvisitorsworld come just to climb it. They've got no banculturedecadesgiantimportantindigenousinitiallyitlocalmemonolithofficiallyoneparliamentrecognitionrespectstoriestinyvisitorsworld." Another resident said: "If I tried to climb on top of that banculturedecadesgiantimportantindigenousinitiallyitlocalmemonolithofficiallyoneparliamentrecognitionrespectstoriestinyvisitorsworld house at Canberra, they wouldn't let banculturedecadesgiantimportantindigenousinitiallyitlocalmemonolithofficiallyoneparliamentrecognitionrespectstoriestinyvisitorsworld in.