WWF calls for protection of NT's pristine rivers
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Conservationists are warning that the pristine tropical rivers in Australia's far north are at risk unless there are proper measures to protect them.
They are calling for a national management plan similar to those that exist for national parks and marine conservation areas elsewhere.
Stuart Blanch from WWF says despite their pristine nature, even the biggest tropical rivers right across the Northern Territory are under similar pressures to the clogged and polluted waterways in southern Australia.
"Northern Australia's rivers are generally the best in Australia that are left today, and they really are the crown jewels in Australia, as well as for many tropical areas in the world," he said.
"So if we don't look after them, they will end up like the Murray."
The iconic Daly River is one of the great tropical rivers of northern Australia. When it floods - as it often does in the wet season - it is a force that has to be seen to be believed. It can turn a vast area of the top end into an archipelago, isolating communities south-west of Darwin from road or land contact.
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