The Channel Country is coming to the City.

On Monday, 21 August, representatives from the Lake Eyre Basin Traditional Owners Alliance, scientists and anthropologists will showcase what makes the Channel Country so important and what we can all do together to ensure the Queensland government protects it for generations to come.

We’re bringing the Channel Country to the City—and you—with a free special event. 

Traditional Owners, pastoralists, scientists and environmentalists have been calling for the protection of these globally significant rivers and floodplains from fossil fuel extraction for decades. 

Join us at this free community event over some nibbles to hear stories directly from the communities on the frontlines or working to get the Channel Country the protection it deserves.

There are only a few weeks left until the government closes community consultation on the future of the area. Together we need to exert powerful community pressure to ensure that these special landscapes are protected for the communities and wildlife that depend on them.

This consultation period is a historic opportunity to protect the precious Channel Country rivers and floodplains. And so far, thousands of Queenslanders have signalled to the Queensland government that it’s time to get on with the job of expanding protections over these world-class rivers and floodplains and to ban new oil and gas.

The rivers of the Channel Country are amongst the last free-flowing desert rivers left on Earth. They feed fertile, bountiful floodplains. Both sustain wildlife found nowhere else on Earth, cultural connection dating back tens of thousands of years and local livelihoods.

By coming along you’re joining a bigger community across Wilderness Society, Western Rivers Alliance and Lock the Gate that is supporting the calls from the Lake Eyre Basin Traditional Owners Alliance, scientists and locals for the need to protect the Channel Country rivers and floodplains.

Image credit: Kerry Trapnell