Another excerpt from Kaleigh and Jon’s Daintree Experience . . .
While planting in the Daintree, we had the amazing opportunity to check out a few of the local companies that support Rainforest Rescue through regular donations. Both the Daintree Discovery Centre and Daintree Discovery Tours help to turn the overwhelming wonder of the Daintree into an understandable and enjoyable experience.
By Julie Olsen
Explore a little of the ‘Big Scrub‘ from Byron Bay to Lismore. Julie Olsen unearths a treasure trove of local rainforest delights. If you’re into rainforest, Byron Bay and Lismore offer the perfect base from which to explore the little-known beauties of northern New South Wales.
Get ready to be swept off your feet as you meander along cute country roads between Byron Bay and Lismore. Read the rest of this entry »
Despite its bioprospecting potential, the unprotected tropical rainforest of the lowland Daintree could soon disappear forever.
Rainforests are full of the weird, the wonderful and the obscure – and the lowland Daintree in north Queensland is no exception. Read the rest of this entry »
Deep in the Daintree rainforest a small number of rare Bennetts Tree-kangaroo’s can count their lucky stars, or in their case their lucky trees, now saved from development. Living on the seventh and eight properties purchased through the Daintree Buy Back and Protect Forever Project means their habitat is now safe, yet clearing of the Daintree rainforest through rural residential settlement remains a significant threat for their fellows and many species. Read the rest of this entry »
George Lewin was a 25-year old journalist working at ABC-TV News in Melbourne, when he invented the original Triton saw bench in early 1975. At the time, he was struggling with his first woodwork project since schooldays – a dining table. Read the rest of this entry »
Just one thousand left. Julie Olsen gives the low down. Life on the ground used to have its benefits. It was all about finding a nice territory of you own, raising a chick or two and foraging for brightly-coloured fruits on the forest floor. Flightlessness just wasn’t an issue. Read the rest of this entry »
Driven by natural selection, the bush gave rise to the macadamia. So it makes good sense to grow the two together, say farmers.
We sometimes forget that our country’s most successful native export was a product of the bush. And for tens of thousands of years, the two were inseparable. Read the rest of this entry »
Julie Olsen reports.
It’s something we humans take for granted – the simple act of getting from A to B. But imagine what its like for a tree kangaroo living in the ever-shrinking rainforests of tropical north Queensland. Read the rest of this entry »
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