Indigenous leaders fight to protect the Fitzroy River in northern Australia Your World Uncensored

Dr. and Professor Anne Poelina is Chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council, and is working to protect the Fitzroy River from large-scale development. Big agricultural businesses are looking to create a 'food bowl' in the Kimberley Region of West Australia and want to extract massive quantities of water from the Fitzroy River to do so. I talk to Poelina about the concerns Indigenous traditional owners have with industry potentially taking hundreds of gigalitres a year from one of the last strongholds for the endangered saw fish. We  eventually dig into how the hunger for development and economic growth needs to be balanced with Indigenous knowledge and up-to-date, peer-reviewed science. 

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