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#CritterCorner – Look high into the rainforest canopy on a warm Wet Tropics evening and you might spot a furry acrobat launching through the treetops. The Lemuroid Ringtail Possum (Hemibelideus [...]

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

#CritterCorner – Along the edges of rainforest waterways, you might catch a brief glimpse of blue moving low across the surface. That’s often the only sign an Azure Kingfisher (Ceyx [...]

#CritterCorner – With wingspans reaching up to 1.6 metres and distinctive pale rings around their eyes, Spectacled Flying-foxes are one of the most recognisable animals of Far North Queensland. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Rainforest Rescue is leading a national multi-organisational campaign to save Australia’s Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius Johnsonnii) and to raise awareness about the [...]