Protecting the Channel Country
Free-flowing desert rivers and lifeblood to Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre
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.
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.
Protections Won
The Channel Country’s free-flowing rivers received historic protections in 2024, with Queensland banning new oil and gas across 9 million hectares of sensitive rivers and floodplains in the Lake Eyre Basin.
We keep a close eye on future threats.
