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#ForestFlora – Fan palms (Licuala ramsayi) are an iconic feature of Queensland’s northern rainforests, reaching heights of up to 20 meters. Their slender trunks, averaging around 20 [...]

National NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia in the first week of July each year (Sunday to Sunday), to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal [...]

We are so excited to have Mark Dunphy, author, ecologist, founder of the Firewheel Rainforest Nursery, and president of Big Scrub Rainforest Conservancy (BSRC), share his memories of the Daintree [...]

Cairns Ecofiesta is an annual sustainability event ringed with green pen in Rainforest Rescue’s calendar. This year Rainforest Rescue’s Junior Ambassador, Daisy, joined our team’s stall to chat [...]

#CritterCorner – Imagine this… you’re a small insect living in a rainforest… what would you choose as your defence mechanism? How about glands behind your head that can [...]

Emily (centre, wearing green ‘Plant a Rainforest’ t-shirt), Kurranji Bubu 2015 © Martin Stringer   In the fifth of our series of stories marking our 25th Anniversary you’ll catch [...]

A lot of you may be familiar with Hayden White, as he began his Rainforest Rescue journey as Conservation Field Labourer at the beginning of 2023. In late 2023, when Justin McMahon announced he [...]

#ForestFlora – The King Fern (Angiopteris evecta) is one of the largest and most ancient ferns in the world. It’s not to be confused with Todea barbara, a fern that is also called the [...]

Soil Scientist Fred Holden using an EM Inductor to test electrical conductivity of the soil. Image: Martin Stringer   We love to talk about trees and the incredible benefits they provide for [...]

#CritterCorner – Did you know that dragons still exist in Australia? (Spoiler Alert: They’re not the flying, fire breathing type that we’ve all read about in stories… but [...]