Volunteers will be able to plant over 10,000 trees in the Daintree Rainforest and help the environment, thanks to a Community Grant from NRMA Insurance.
Rainforest Rescue will use a $5000 grant to plant the trees in the Daintree Rainforest to not only help combat climate change but provide new habitat for the endangered Cassowary. Read the rest of this entry »
Alison and Greg Cromwell will donate a percentage of the proceeds of the sale of their farm, at 16 Mill Road in Goonengerry, to Rainforest Rescue. The local, not for profit group based in Mullumbimby has been protecting and restoring rainforests in Australia and internationally since 1998. Read the rest of this entry »
A new study in Ecological Management & Restoration has found that reforesting rainforest captures more carbon than monoculture plantation and even mixed species plantations. The research tested three projects in north-eastern Australia: a rainforest reforesting project using a variety of native trees, a mixed species plantation, and a monoculture plantation of conifers.
“Compared to the monoculture plantations reforestation projects were more densely stocked, there were more large trees and the trees which were used had a higher wood density then the conifers at the plantation, explained co-author Dr John Kanowski an ecologist with the Australian Wildlife Conservancy in a press release.
The study found that on average a hectare of restored rainforest stored 106 tons of carbon: over 40 tons of carbon more than a hectare of monoculture conifer plantation and 20 tons more than a hectare of mixed species plantation. Read the rest of this entry »
