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There has been a swirl of activity in recent weeks relating to the Queensland Governments Wild Rivers legislation. Minister Robertson is also planning to declare Cooper's Creek as a Wild River in the coming months. This iconic catchment will be the first in the Lake Eyre Basin to be protected under this legislation. So what does this all mean?

In the coming weeks, I will be blogging about the benefits that a Wild Rivers Declaration will bring to Western Queensland, and how the communities of this area have been working together to ensure that the government considers the unique nature of the rivers in Western Queensland.

The Lake Eyre Basin covers 1/7th of Australia, and is the largest internally draining basin in the world. What is an internally draining basin? Most rivers throughout the world run towards the coast, and eventually the water moves out to sea. Not so with the Lake Eyre Basin. The water all runs down into Lake Eyre, and pools there - and eventually evaporates. Whilst this water drains southward into Lake Eyre, it also leaves a magical legacy of floodplains, braids and channels that criss cross the country and provides habitat and food for many species of plants and animals.