… acquired by decades of education and lectures. And there are still western idiots that wreck rock formations or vandalize springs.
It was worse a hundred years ago. My wife and I once visited the Barbarossa Cave. Barbarossa Cave - Wikipedia
It’s not in the article, but we were shown the effects of large scale tampering about a hundred years ago, when visitors would break off gypsum flakes just for kicks and people redocorating the cave to make it more dramatic.
