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#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. [...]

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 [...]

Not like you needed more … but here’s another 3000 reasons to Love the Daintree! This year’s Community Tree Planting was terrific for so many reasons. We had a great turnout with [...]

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 [...]

Thanks to Rainforest Rescuers who contributed to our holiday campaign, our 32nd Daintree Property is set to be rescued thanks to Rainforest Supporters! Lot 15 Thornton Peak Dr will be protected [...]

In Far North Queensland, the Rainforest2Reef partnership brings real conservation action to the fight to protect the Daintree Lowlands and the Great Barrier Reef. *** This article originally [...]

Juvenile Southern Cassowary spotted at NightWings. Credit: Joe Reichl. Breaking News: Southern Cassowary Spotted South of the Daintree River! We’ve had a thrilling breakthrough in our restoration [...]

Australia has lost one of its true environmental champions – Celebrated Conservationist, Margaret Thorsborne, 1927-2018 Photo: Shae Beplate, The Australian Margaret’s deep love of the [...]

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, [...]