Celebrating 25 years of protecting and restoring rainforests
Together, we’ve come so far.
The whole team at Rainforest Rescue want to thank you for your ongoing, unwavering support to protect and restore our precious rainforests.
Thank you. You truly are amazing.
Since 1999, with your help, Rainforest Rescue has planted well over 300,000 trees to restore Australian rainforest. Together we now protect 45 rainforest properties, including 32 that are protected forever through Nature Refuge Conservation Agreements. These properties create wildlife corridors to connect up habitat with the adjacent National Parks, allowing wildlife to move freely. And you helped to build the Daintree region’s most-productive native plant nursery to restore rainforest habitat while assisting the local restoration economy.
You did this. You have every right to feel proud. We do!
For the Rainforests,
The Rainforest Rescue Team
320,412 in Australia
33,000 Overseas
44 in Daintree, Queensland
1 in Pyengana, Tasmania
1,222,114 in the Daintree
809,400 in Tasmania
by Nature Refuge status
in Australia
Founded on
25 March 1999
25 – The best time is now.
Together, we will make this year the biggest ever for the rainforests.
Back in 1999, Rainforest Rescue’s founders set out to protect the under-protected rainforest in Australia.
What matters then still matters now. Rainforests, as biodiverse, ecologically rich habitats with the capability to fix and store carbon from the atmosphere, are important to our planet’s overall health.
To borrow a phrase, “The better time to plant a tree was 25 years ago. The best time is now.”
Over the next year we will share memories, stories, and inspiration that bring the rainforest to you. Reminders of why the best time is now to care for our rainforests.
You’ll find these messages collected below, or you can subscribe to our eNews to receive them straight to your inbox!
Branden’s 25th Anniversary message of thanks.
Why rainforest restoration and protection matters.
Revisiting our first rescue of Daintree rainforest.
“I hoped it would be an organisation that went on indefinitely. Having been involved in the first 8 years of Rainforest Rescue’s existence I am absolutely delighted to see how the organisation has progressed.
Rainforest Rescue now has 44 properties that it owns in the Daintree, it’s busy restoring rainforest on those properties. It has several wildlife corridors from the higher elevations to the lowlands and is now propagating trees for planting. What an expansion of our original vision.”
– Dr Tony Parkes AO, Co-Founder of Rainforest Rescue
Join the celebration!
We’re making it a whole year of celebration, with special activities, events and learning to mark 25 years of protecting and restoring rainforests.
Make sure you’re subscribed to our regular eNews to also receive our 25th Anniversary messages direct to your inbox!
Share your memories!
From tree plantings to wildlife monitoring, community fundraising to worker bees, our volunteers and supporters are generous with their passion and energy.
We would love to see, hear and share your memories from the past 25 years of supporting Rainforest Rescue. Use the button below to do so.
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