Protecting the Channel Country
Free-flowing desert rivers and lifeblood to Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre
BREAKING NEWS: Queensland Government keep their promise to protect the Lake Eyre Basin’s rivers and Channel Country floodplains
The Channel Country hosts some of the last remaining free-flowing desert rivers left on Earth.
They support cultural connections tens of thousands of years old, one of Australia’s largest clean green beef industries, and a budding tourism industry.
Oil and gas would compromise the rivers that sustain this unique landscape, with devastating consequences for the wildlife and people that rely on it.
Local graziers, Traditional Owners and local communities have worked together in the fight to protect the Channel Country rivers and floodplains.
BREAKING NEWS
Friday 22 Dec 2023 – Queensland government announces they will ban new oil and gas developments in the Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre basin’s rivers and floodplains. Read more
Unique
Precious
Queensland’s Channel Country hosts some of the last remaining free-flowing desert rivers left on Earth.
They support cultural connections tens of thousands of years old, one of Australia’s largest clean green beef industries, and a budding tourism industry.
Under threat
from oil & gas
Oil and gas operations would compromise the rivers that sustain this unique landscape, with devastating consequences for the wildlife and people that rely on it.
Time to act
In 2015 the Queensland Labor Government pledged to protect the Lake Eyre Basin’s rivers and their Channel Country floodplains.
After eight years of delay, it’s time to deliver.
