Western Australia has a particularly flabbergasting landscape, one photographer Martine Perret felt she needed to get a little higher to capture.

Born in Bordeaux, Perret is a former UN photographer and desk editor at The Australian Financial Review, who covered peacekeeping missions in conflict zones such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi, as well as Ebola-affected areas of South Sudan.

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Now a local of Margaret River, Western Australia, Perret has taken a series of photographs of the state’s natural landscape from the air, for a new book called Beyond: Above Western Australia. Read more…

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Located in Australia’s desert centre, Uluru (also known as Ayers Rock) is one of the country’s most popular, yet sacred tourist destinations. 

Since the 1930s, the spectacular monolith in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park has been climbable for tourists, despite staunch opposition from the land’s traditional owners. 

But in two years’ time, climbing Uluru will be no more.

Uluru’s traditional owners and National Parks representatives voted to end the practice on Wednesday. The ban will come into effect on October 26, 2019, giving tour operators time to clear pre-booked visitors. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Tourists will no longer be able to climb Australia's Uluru in 2019