It’s one of the few places left in northern Australia where you find the endangered Northern River Shark, and three vulnerable species of freshwater sawfish, along with rock-wallabies and bilbies. But it’s under threat.

Rubber vine kills native flora and fauna, damages pastoral land and chokes waterways from Queensland to Western Australia's far north. A group of people in WA's remote Kimberley region are using innovative technology to fight back, and they're winning.

Did you know there are over 60 threatened species found in the Fitzroy River and its catchment? This includes iconic species such as Purple-crowned Fairy-wren, Gouldian Finch, Peregrine Falcon, Northern Quoll, Freshwater Crocodile, Northern River Shark and Freshwater Sawfish.

To date, this species has escaped and become invasive in other Gulf of Guinea countries like Tanzania, where little is known. Nypa has further spread out of the Nigerian Delta, especially into Cameroon for two reasons. The first is due to the hydrochory of the many seeds that float in water and form self-induced nurseries along the coast.

The Upper Fitzroy River mainland island is known to contain a number of threatened and migratory animal and plant species protected under the Queensland Nature Conservation Act 1992(NC Act) and the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act 1999. The Queensland Environment