You may have heard of Hercules… but what about Hercules Moths (Coscinocera hercules)? Despite being the largest moth in the world… Hercules Moths don’t eat! Why??? Because they [...]

With the current situation regarding COVID-19 Coronavirus, Rainforest Rescue has decided to cancel our Annual Community Tree Planting day to assist in stopping the spread of this virus. Given [...]

Huge Kudos and Huge Thanks to all of you who helped make this latest rescue possible – this is fantastic! At almost 2 Hectares, this beautiful rainforest block is now safe from development. [...]

  Rainforest Rescue Photographer Martin Stringer’s film, “Growing a Rainforest Community”, Official Selection for ATBC Short Video Contest! And we just learned it’s [...]

The Lemuroid Ringtail Possums (Hemibelideus lemuroides)  lives in the Wet Tropics regions of far north Queensland. If you’re in the area, look high up in the trees and you may just see them [...]

[Please see updated notice regarding the cancellation of this year’s Tree Planting Day due to safety requirements because of the Coronavirus. Please sign up for our mailing list to receive [...]

Please welcome César Garcia to the Rainforest Rescue team. He’s here to help us grow and tend our garden of support. What brought you to Rainforest Rescue and how do you feel about the [...]

Rainforest Rescue Scientific Advisor, Dr. Robert Kooyman, tells us about this fascinating Daintree rainforest tree –  Castanospermum Australe – Blackbean – and it’s [...]

NOTE: Both Big Scrub Landcare and Rainforest Rescue were founded by Dr. Tony Parkes, OA. Big Scrub Landcare is our sister organisation, and they do a tremendous amount to protect and restore the [...]

The Rainforest Rescue Business Partners in Conservation Program is an incredibly powerful way to demonstrate to your customers, staff, the country – and in fact, the world – how [...]

Last June many of you stepped up to help rescue a beautiful, pristine rainforest block that would help to expand the Cape Kimberley Wildlife Corridor and protect precious biodiversity and [...]

Rainforests are…rainy, right? Up in the Daintree we see a lot of rain, but how much of that is affected by the forest itself? Or the Great Barrier Reef? Here’s our friendly [...]

Introducing the Azure Kingfisher (Ceyx azureus), one of the smallest and most dazzling kingfishers in Australia and just one of many types of Kingfishers found in the Daintree Rainforest. Azure [...]

Nothing Trivial About It! When it comes to rescuing rainforests there are so many ways you can help. Our Daintree Supporters Wrangler, Emily Silverstone, helped local Quiz Master Kevin “KStar” [...]

Please welcome Grant Morrison to the Rainforest Rescue team. He’s responsible for all of the properties you’ve helped us rescue and he’s in charge of our restoration activities. What brought you [...]

Recently we were contacted by ABC Far North Queensland’s Sharnie Kim. She’d heard about the work Rainforest Rescue supporters made possible to rehabilitate Lot 46 – you know, that oil palm [...]

How an oil palm plantation owned by Christopher Skase was replanted by hand and transformed into a lush rainforest on the edge of the World Heritage-listed Daintree National Park. ABC Far North [...]

Rainforest Revival Day at Hotel Brunswick was a Great Success! Hotel Brunswick hosted a great day for Rainforests Rescue and our sister organisation, Big Scrub Landcare in September. It was [...]

Welcome Marine Deliens to the Rainforest Rescue Team! Marine comes to us from Belgium and made her way to Australia to start a new life in Far North. She brings excellent qualifications and a [...]

One of the favourite creatures of Far North Queensland, the Spectacled Flying Fox is an essential part of the rainforest’s web of life. The greatest threats to these rainforest pollinators [...]

Rainforest Rescue acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands on which our organisation is located, where we work and where we live. We respect ancestors and Elders past, present and [...]

This year’s Community Tree Planting was terrific for so many reasons. We had a great turnout with locals – some first timers and some who’ve been coming for years – as well as folks from all over [...]

Meet Flynn Hawkey! Flynn is a year 11 student at Trinity College South Australia who has a keen interest in the cassowary and it’s natural habitat. One of Rainforest Rescue’s four key [...]

We warmly invite you to our annual Community Tree Planting Day on Saturday 4th May 2019. We’d love you to help us plant over 4,000 rainforest seedlings to help us Protect Rainforest [...]

RESCUE UPDATE #NEXT10 – 2 Down 8 to go was successful! Thanks to Rainforest Rescuers who contributed to our holiday campaign, our 32nd Rainforest Property is set to be rescued thanks to [...]

by Madeleine Faught ** This article originally appeared in the PXLEXPLORERERS cS 01 Subscribers Newsletter – find out more about this wonderful publication here. And find out more [...]

Putting Nature Back is Working in the Lower Daintree  All of us at Rainforest Rescue this past week were thrilled when Joe Reichl, our Daintree Land Manager, got word that for the first time in [...]

Photo: Shae Beplate, The Australian Australia has lost one of its true environmental champions. Margaret’s deep love of the environment and a genuine sense of responsibility to protect it [...]

The Big Scrub was the largest expanse of lowland subtropical rainforest in Australia, covering an area of approximately 75,000 hectares on rich volcanic and alluvial soils between Byron Bay, [...]

Thanks to those of you who supported this effort with meaningful contributions to the June 2018 appeal, we have now saved Lot 2, Forest Creek Road! You made this possible because you care about [...]

Hello Rainforest Rescuers! It’s a great honour to be the new steward at Rainforest Rescue. Having spent many years working as an environmentalist, and much of that in the field of rainforest [...]

Chair  of Rainforest Rescue Madeleine Faught with research assistant Melissa  Bautista celebrating their cassowary award. Photo Aslan Shand. Courtesy Echo Net Daily At the Wet Tropics Management [...]

I’m writing to share some news with you. I’ve had a wonderful time as CEO and together we’ve achieved some amazing wins for Rainforest conservation. However, illness in my extended family means [...]

Thank You… amazing result! We’ve reached our target two weeks before the deadline and have rescued our No.1 priority vulnerable rainforest property in the Daintree. Lot 19, Cape [...]

A Rainforest Rescue Research Project  Elle McDonald, Research Intern, Rainforest Rescue This article is part of a wider research project undertake by Elle McDonald for Rainforest Rescue to help [...]

Artists join campaign to protect Australian rainforest and reef 17 painters, illustrators, photographers and digital artists have joined a campaign to help protect Australian rainforest and reef. [...]

Even in remote areas such as the Daintree, dumped tyres are an environmental issue. Over 600 old tyres had to be removed from a property along Rosewood Road before any rainforest conservation [...]

Rainforest Rescue has a rare opportunity to buy a block of rainforest to create a new corridor in the heart of the Daintree. This will link a key Rainforest Rescue property at the foot of [...]

Our next community tree planting day is being held on Saturday 13 May in the Daintree. We warmly invite you to our Community Tree Planting Day on Saturday 13th May 2017. We’d love you to [...]

Thanks to your support the 28th block of rainforest has been rescued in the lowland Daintree Rainforest Update  27th March: We’ve just heard that the settlement has gone through today [...]

The Daintree Lowland hosts an ancient rainforest with a genetic lineage going back 135 million years. This amazing place sits between the Wet Tropics and Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Areas [...]

Thanks to your support the 27th block of rainforest has been rescued in the lowland Daintree Rainforest Lot 32 Cape Tribulation Road, Kimberley is the 27th threatened rainforest property in the [...]

Rescued Rainforest named after Daintree conservationist, Chris Bennett A rescued block of Daintree rainforest is being named after local conservationist Chris Bennett. The rainforest property is [...]

Joe Reichl, Rainforest Rescue’s Daintree Land Manager talks about a recent river bank revegetation project along the Daintree River.  Last summer sadly saw the most extensive coral bleaching [...]

International Postgraduate Intern Daniel Perlaki is working with Rainforest Rescue to ensure that international best practice is helping underpin invasive weed management.  As part of his [...]

Supporters will join Rainforest Rescue in planting 1,000 native trees at the Nightwings Project this Saturday to help recreate unique and internationally important rainforest habitat. The [...]

Eleven more rainforest properties have been protected forever with Nature Refuge covenants across the Daintree lowlands. Working with the Queensland Trust for Nature the covenanted properties [...]

Daintree: the ‘engine-room’ of evolution  Dr Robert Kooyman, Scientific Adviser, Rainforest Rescue In an era of decline it is hardly surprising that one of the key objectives for conservation [...]

Conservationists are celebrating news of two new species discovered in the Daintree, Far North Queensland. However, the unique rainforest habitat that supports these and many other rare species [...]

BioPak has announced its continuing commitment to the planet through a partnership with Rainforest Rescue, helping protecting rainforests forever. BioPak, Australia’s leading provider of [...]

Locals were joined by Rainforest Rescue staff from Mullumbimby, Sydney and the Daintree, along with volunteers from several corporate donors. Jalunjiwarra Traditional Owners Andrew and David [...]

A recent study examined the internal anatomy of a cassowary casque in an attempt to better understand its evolution and ecological function.The Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) is one of [...]

147 different species of plants have been identified on a Daintree property we are fundraising to protect from the bulldozer. Lot 19 Cape Tribulation Road, Cape Kimberley is being sold with DA [...]

(reproduced with permission from Wet Tropics Management Authority) Australia is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world. Recognised as one of seventeen ‘megadiverse’ nations, Australia [...]

 Volunteers travelled from far and wide to participate in Rainforest Rescue’s annual community tree planting weekend last week. We felt privileged to welcome people from Melbourne, Sydney, the [...]

The Daintree rainforest is of international conservation importance as one of the most significant regional ecosystems in the world. Many people assume the creation of the Daintree National Park [...]

The restoration season is in full-swing in the Daintree with the Rainforest Rescue crew busy propagating and caring for rainforest seedlings. As all trees planted by the Rainforest Rescue crew [...]

The wet was late in arriving this season, slowing the start of our current restoration project within the upper north east section of Daintree National Park at Lot 96 Cape Tribulation Road. [...]

The hum of wingbeats is what you hear first. Beating at close to 80 strokes per second, the hummingbird is audible long before you see it. These fast moving aerial acrobats boast an incredible [...]

It has now been four months since three cassowary chicks came into our care at the Cassowary Rehabilitation Centre. The chicks are rapidly growing and now eat around the equivalent of a nine [...]

We are excited that the Save the Cassowary campaign could soon be extending its reach globally. We recently met with Carrie Brooks, the Education Program Coordinator at the Birmingham Zoo in [...]

Time to start planning your holiday – our annual community tree planting weekend is on 23-24 May in the Daintree. On Saturday you will be helping plant the final 2000 trees in zone 6 of Lot [...]

Three orphan cassowary chicks are in care at Garners Beach Cassowary Rehabilitation Recovery Centre. Rainforest Rescue manages this facility under a partnership with the Qld Department of [...]

The steep and rugged northwest Andean highlands (1800 – 2800 metres) create the perfect environment for Cloud Forests. Bathed in daily moisture, these rainforests are home to an amazing 15-17% of [...]

We welcome Robert Rosen as Patron of Rainforest Rescue As a previous Chair, Board member and Chair of the Public Fund Committee, Robert is very familiar with Rainforest Rescue and our vision. He [...]

Rainforest Rescue has been working with project partner, Rainforest Concern since 2003 to support the purchase of critically important rainforest in the Andean highlands of northwest Ecuador. [...]

Late last year we launched our campaign to create a nature conservation reserve on Lot 46 Cape Tribulation Road in the Daintree. Usually when we identify important rainforest needing protection [...]

Thanks to the support of our donors, we were able to purchase the 25th Daintree property to protect forever on 30 October, 2015. We were very keen to protect Lot 13 as it had only limited [...]

Rainforest Rescue warmly acknowledges the recent commitment by our loyal business partner of many years, BioPak, in becoming the first business to protect Lot 46, the Daintree! BioPak’s [...]

Locals couldn’t remember the last time Wongaling Creek flowed, but in collaboration with Girringun Aboriginal Corporation, we’ve completed the Wongaling Wetland Cassowary Corridor restoration [...]

Rainforest Rescue has been working with project partner, Orangutan Information Centre (OIC) to restore illegally cleared national park in Northern Sumatra since 2009. Our recent site visit to the [...]

Rainforest Rescue’s vision is to buy back and protect all unprotected high conservation value rainforest in the Daintree lowlands by 2030. Thanks to the generosity of our donors we are now two [...]

Restoring rainforest to its former glory takes time and lots of back-bending but the end result is incredibly rewarding said our Daintree Land Manager, Joe Reichl. In early 2012, gifts from our [...]

Yesterday Rainforest Rescue gifted a property to the Qld Department of Environment and Heritage Protection that bordered on the Daintree National Park, effectively growing the size of the Park. [...]

The male cassowary is a role model for all dads, human or otherwise. As a hard-working parent they hatch their chicks and raise them, teaching them all they need to know until they are [...]

Palm oil is the world’s most popular vegetable oil. Used in most consumer goods, this particular oil may be cheap but it comes at a tremendous cost to the environment. Palm oil has been linked to [...]

Canopy cover, number of species, plant density, and rate of growth are key indicators of forest development. At Lot 46 Cape Tribulation Road in the Daintree area of far north Queensland, [...]

Two weeks ago we went out on a limb and signed the sales contract on one of the blocks of rainforest we identified as having high conservation value – we were worried it was going to be purchased [...]

On Thursday 19 June 2014 we signed the contract of purchase for Lot 13 Forest Creek Road – one of the three properties we are currently trying to protect forever in the Daintree Lowland [...]

On this World Environment Day let’s take a moment to think about the practical and tangible ways we can protect the Daintree Lowland Rainforest. The Daintree Rainforest is worth protecting [...]