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The 22nd annual Big Scrub Rainforest day 2020 will be held on Sunday 20th September in an online format and you’re invited! This year’s topical theme, ‘Saving our Rainforests from Fire’ [...]

It’s all about ‘from the ground up’…For decades we’ve been working in rainforest restoration and are proud of what these efforts have achieved. This restoration work has primarily focused on semi [...]

Rainforest Rescue’s Scientific Advisor, Dr Robert Kooyman, shows us the beautiful Booyong Tree (Argyrodendron peralutum) in the Daintree Rainforest. Argyrodendron actinophyllum is a large [...]

Did you know that the Daintree Rainforest is home to a diverse array of colourful, unique fungi species? Rainforest fungi come in all shapes, colours and sizes and they flourish in the hot, wet [...]

A 1000 more trees for the emerging Daintree – International Tree Planting Day – March 21 2020 Before the Coronavirus sent us indoors, we were able to get a special planting done in [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

All trees planted by Rainforest Rescue staff and volunteers are grown at our rainforest nursery The restoration season is in full swing in the Daintree with the Rainforest Rescue crew busy [...]