Rainforest Rescue, the not for profit organisation that manages the Daintree Buy Back and Protect Forever Project is now wanting to hear from Daintree landholders who would like to have tree planted on their properties.“If you have land in the Daintree area that is cleared or is partly cleared we want to hear from you,” said David Cook project manager with Rainforest Rescue.
Words by Kaleigh Wisman, 
Images by Jon Sturge
The sweat! The sun! The bugs! But the trees, my goodness, the trees! Tree planting isn’t easy, but it’s worth it.
This June, my partner Jon and I had the opportunity to do some re-generation work in the Daintree for Rainforest Rescue. We worked alongside David Cook, the Daintree Conservation Project Officer (a lovely man), as well as Conservation Volunteers Australia (a diverse group of eager planters) as we planted 4,000 trees over two weeks. We planted two sites: one of which was a residential property that had been bought back by the Queensland Government; the other site was a privately owned and inhabited site that was mostly covered in Guinea Grass, a weed which the owner was more than happy to replace with rainforest trees. Read the rest of this entry »
