Rio's blasting of Juukan's 46,000-year-old rock shelters in May 2020 left the land's traditional owners devastated, prompting international condemnation from key investors and a global outcry that ultimately lead to chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques and two of his deputies stepping down. The $164 billion ASX-listed miner has apologised and acknowledged the number of failures that caused the destruction of one of Australia's most significant archeological and cultural sites on the land of the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura (PKKP) people. Chief executive Jakob Stausholm, who took over in 2021, said in the years since the rock shelters were destroyed, "we have been changing the way we work in every part of our business". 'We know we have more work to do and the report gives us areas for further improvement across our global operations, and we will adopt all of its recommendations.'