CANOPY AWARDS
Your shutter might only be open for a moment but your pictures could help Protect Rainforests Forever.
The Rainforest Rescue Canopy Awards creates a platform to promote the beauty and fragility of the rainforests and their unique ecology and biodiversity.
Inviting photographers to contribute their perspectives provides a richer tapestry upon which to focus our intentions for both the Daintree’s forever protection, as well as the protection of rainforests and rainforest creatures all over the world. Join us to support these Awards, and reach more people who care about the long-term future of these most precious ecosystems. It’s our Nature to protect, after all.
The 2023 Canopy Awards are closed. To view the winners, click here.
Enter ANY photo, of ANY rainforest, taken at ANY time.
ABOUT THE RAINFOREST RESCUE CANOPY AWARDS
“To enhance and promote the art of rainforest photography, and to help raise awareness about the nature and culture of rainforest habitats, and to encourage their protection”
Photographers from around the globe are invited to contribute their unique interpretations and creative perspectives on the world’s rainforests.
Benefits of Entry:
- Every Entry Protects 1 square meter of Rainforest Forever
- Great Prizes: Grand Prize, Category Winners, and the People’s Choice Vote
- Chance to feature on your own Biopak Art Series Cup
- Review of every entry and feedback via Report Card
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Have you watched The Big Scrub yet 🌿?
Only 1% of the original Big Scrub rainforest remains - but a passionate community of locals, backed by science, is working hard to bring it back.
This inspiring documentary dives deep into the story of the Big Scrub, what’s being done to protect and restore it, and how the challenge of low genetic diversity in native tree species is being tackled.
If you’re in need of a hopeful conservation story today, this one’s for you 💚
Watch it online:
👉️ https://bit.ly/bsrc_doco (link in bio)
Not a sponsored post, just a great watch 👀💚
@bigscrubrainforest @abcaustralia #Conservation #ConservationGoals #ProtectForests #AustralianForest #Rainforest #AustralianRainforest #ABCStory
We’re on a mission to increase connectivity, preserve biodiversity and protect rainforests forever 🌏️💚.
Want to know how we do it?
🌳 Our Protect a Rainforest project purchases rainforest blocks to safeguard them forever - increasing connectivity and defending biodiversity.
🌱 Our Plant a Rainforest projects restore damaged land and re-establish vital habitat for the unique plants and animals of the Daintree. We believe that #TreesAreTheAnswer
And that’s just the beginning...
Discover how we’re helping to preserve the Daintree - and how you can make a difference too:
🌿 www.rainforestrescue.org.au (link in bio) 🌿
📷: Martin Stringer
#ProtectRainforestsForever #FNQ #Daintree #DaintreeRainforest #PlantARainforest #PlantTrees #MoreTrees #Conservation #Biodiversity #RainforestRescue
The Daintree is Australia’s largest and most biodiverse rainforest, and it’s existed far longer than any other rainforest on the planet.
Continuously evolving and growing, living and breathing for over 180 million years, the Daintree is a unique and remarkable wonder 🌳🌳🌳.
This tropical rainforest ecosystem is one of the most complex on earth.
We need your help to preserve the Daintree with all the life within - we know we can do this together:
www.rainforestrescue.org.au/make-an-impact/rainforest-guardians (link in bio) 💚
📷: Martin Stringer
#RainforestGuardian #DaintreeRainforest #AncientRainforest #AustralianRainforest #LoveDaintree #ProtectRainforest #ProtectDaintree #DaintreeFlora #DaintreeFauna #Biodiversity #FarNorthQueensland #FNQ
#ForestFlora: Fan Palms (Licuala ramsayi) are one of the most iconic sights in Queensland’s northern rainforests - and for good reason. They can reach up to 20 metres tall, with slender trunks topped by enormous, fan-shaped leaves 🌿.
These stunning trees play a vital role in the sub-canopy of tropical rainforests, mangroves, littoral and vine forests, and riverine areas.
For First Nations peoples of north Queensland, fan palms hold deep cultural significance. Their broad leaves are used for thatching - providing shelter from rain - and for wrapping food.
Want to learn more? Discover the fascinating world of fan palms here:
🌴 www.rainforestrescue.org.au/forest-flora-fan-palm (link in bio)
📷: Ben Reddy Photography
#DaintreeRainforest #Daintree #AustralianRainforest #AboriginalAustralia #FanPalms #DaintreeTrees #ForestRestoration #TreesAreTheAnswer #DaintreeNature #FNQ #FarNorthQueensland #Conservation #DaintreeFlora
Thanks to your support, since 1999:
💚 We’ve rescued 47 rainforest properties - 46 in the Daintree, Qld and 1 in Pyengana, Tas - that`s over 2.4 million m² of Australian rainforest!
🌿 32 of these properties are protected forever through Nature Refuge status, with another 3 currently in progress.
You’ve also helped us:
🌱 Build the Daintree’s largest nursery, which at full capacity will propagate 150,000 trees annually - that`s enough trees to restore nearly 25 hectares of vital rainforest habitat every year
🌳 Plant 398,362 native rainforest trees - 365,362 of them right here in Australia.
Together, we’re reconnecting ecosystems and safeguarding biodiversity for generations to come.
Learn more (links in bio):
👉 www.rainforestrescue.org.au/our-impact/protection-portfolio-nature-refuges/
👉 www.rainforestrescue.org.au/our-impact/plant-a-rainforest/native-nursery-cow-bay/
👉 www.rainforestrescue.org.au/our-impact/plant-a-rainforest/
📷: Martin Stringer
#RainforestRescue #ProtectRainforestsForever #TreePlanting #NatureRefuge #DaintreeRainforest #WildlifeHabitat #Biodiversity #RestorationInAction #PlantARainforest
Southern Cassowaries are #RainforestGardeners 🌱💩🌳.
They’re not just stunning - they’re a keystone species that helps keep the Daintree thriving. Southern Cassowaries are known to eat the fruit of at least 238 plant species, including 149 woody trees. Of these, 45 species produce large fruits that are mostly dispersed over long distances by cassowaries, making them essential to rainforest regeneration.
These majestic birds rely on safe habitat and connected landscapes, so protecting and restoring wildlife corridors is key. Corridors help cassowaries move between feeding, breeding and resting areas, especially after extreme weather events when food is scarce.
And it’s not just about cassowaries - their habitat also supports at least 106 threatened plant species and 37 threatened animal species, recognised under state and federal legislation 🌿🦋
Learn more about Cassowary ecology and habitat:
🌿 www.rainforestrescue.org.au/explore-the-rainforest/save-the-cassowary/ecology-habitat (link in bio)
📷: Martin Stringer
#SouthernCassowary #WildlifeCorridors #RainforestRestoration #RainforestGardener #DaintreeWildlife #DaintreeRainforest #FNQ #ProtectBiodiversity #PlantARainforest #RainforestRescue #ProtectRainforestsForever
Restoring rainforest at 110 Cape Tribulation Rd has demanded more from us than we ever expected - more time, more planning, more determination.
But because of your incredible support, we’re working towards breaking new ground for Nature and moving forward with purpose.
Together, we’re overcoming unexpected challenges, working with planning experts and legal advisors, and keeping restoration on track - right where it matters most.
🌿 Want to see how your support is helping?
Outlined on our website is a listing of unexpected operational costs relating to our planned natural habitat restoration of former agricultural land in Far North Queensland:
👉 www.rainforestrescue.org.au/red-tape (link in bio) 💚.
With you beside us, we’re restoring rainforests, creating wildlife habitat, and driving long-term change for biodiversity and climate resilience.
📷: Silvia Di Domenicantonio & Emily Silverstone
#RainforestRescue #Daintree #CapeTribulation #FNQ #AncientRainforest #PlantARainforest #Restoration #GreenEconomy #TreesAreTheAnswer #ConservationInAction
You did it - and more 💚🌿
Thanks to YOU, we not only met our goal - we exceeded it.
Because of your support:
🌱 Restoration can begin at 110 Cape Tribulation Rd
🌿 Lot 8 Idriess Cl will be protected forever
✂️ And we’re working on cutting through the red tape to keep rainforest regeneration on track
This is more than a win - it’s momentum. Together, we’re not just protecting rainforest, we’re creating it.
Thank you for being part of this growing legacy 💚
Want to learn more? Visit out website (links in bio):
👉️ 110 Cape Trib Rd: www.rainforestrescue.org.au/lot-110/
👉️ Lot 8 Idriess Cl: www.rainforestrescue.org.au/lot-8/
👉️ Red tape Appeal: www.rainforestrescue.org.au/red-tape/
#RainforestRescue #ProtectRainforestsForever #RestorationMatters #GreenIsGrowing #DaintreeRainforest #RainforestGuardians
#CritterCorner: Despite being the largest moth in the world, Hercules Moths (Coscinocera hercules) don`t eat 😲. More surprisingly, they don`t eat because they don`t have mouths 😶.
These fascinating critters spend most of their lives (approx. 3 mths) as caterpillars 🐛🐛🐛.
During this time, they live on food plants such as the bleeding heart (Homalanthus novoguineensis), red bean trees (Dysoxylum mollissimum subsp. molle) and cheese trees (Glochidion ferdinandi). Nom nom.
Once emerged from their cocoon, these beautiful, mouthless moths only live for 10 to 14 days, and their main goal is to find a mate and reproduce.
It`s a fast and furious sort of life.
Discover more on our website: www.rainforestrescue.org.au/critter-corner-hercules-moth (link in bio) 🦋.
📷: Moth Identification & Australian Butterfly Sanctuary
#HerculesMoths #DaintreeMoths #DaintreeWildlife #DaintreeInsects #DaintreeRainforest #Daintree #LoveDaintree #Moths #FarNorthQueensland #FNQ #Rainforest #RainforestMoths
NAIDOC Week 2025 has begun 🖤💛❤️💙💚
This year’s theme, “The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy”, is a powerful call to celebrate and support the young leaders who are shaping the future of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. It invites all of us to listen deeply, invest meaningfully, and honour the legacy carried forward by emerging generations.
Featured as this year’s official NAIDOC artwork, ‘Ancestral Lines’ by Jeremy Morgan Worrall beautifully captures this message. Set under the moonlit skies of Tenterfield, the painting shows young people gathered around the fire - a symbol of culture, story and continuity.
Through his work, Jeremy pays tribute to the enduring strength and knowledge passed down through generations - from his Ancestors Lucy, Enoch and Nonie Wright, to his Nanna Audrie and his mother Vanessa. Their legacy lives on in the next generation: strong, visionary, and deeply connected.
Let’s come together this week to celebrate culture, history, and the leaders of tomorrow.
👉 Learn more and get involved: naidoc.org.au (link in bio)
@naidocweek #NAIDOC2025 #NAIDOCWeek #StrengthVisionLegacy #FirstNations #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe
You`re never too old or too young to start creating change - together we are capable of the impossible 💚.
Shout out to ALL of the #NextGenRainforestRescuers – young eco-warriors transforming our world!
From planting trees and fundraising to creating powerful films and sparking change in their communities, these incredible young leaders aren’t waiting for the future - they are the future. And they’re making a real impact, right now 🌍✨💚.
Do you know a young #NextGenRainforestRescuer who’s making waves for the planet? We’d love to celebrate them!
💌 Drop us a line: info@rainforestrescue.org.au
Together, let’s nurture the next generation of eco warriors and grow a greener, better world 🌱.
📷: Silvia Di Domenicantonio
#YouthForNature #ClimateAction #GenerationRestoration #EcoWarriors #PlantTrees #DaintreeRainforest #RainforestGuardian #LoveTrees @daintreediscovery #Conservation #Environment #TreesAreTheAnswer #Daintree #DaintreeNationalPark #TropicalRainforests
Make it your business to protect rainforests FOREVER 💚.
Your business can support our Partners for Protection program in a variety of ways with tier partnerships, sponsorships, company events, workplace giving, monthly gifts and direct donations.
🌏 Make preserving rainforests part of your business legacy:
👉 www.rainforestrescue.org.au/make-an-impact/businesses (link in bio)
Together, we are a powerhouse of positive and large-scale conservation change ✊.
Know a business that would love to be involved? Tag them below 👇
📷: Martin Stringer
#PartnersForProtection #BusinessImpact #ConservationGoals #DaintreeRainforest #Daintree #Conservation #Partnership #WorkplaceGiving #Restoration #PlantTrees #GrowTrees #AustralianRainforest @smallbusinessqueensland
Turns out planting a rainforest can be against the rules 🙃🌿.
Current zoning laws classify restoration as “inconsistent” use of rural zoned land… but, we’re working with Council to change that, and we need your help 💚.
👉 Learn more: www.rainforestrescue.org.au/red-tape (link in bio)
📸: Martin Stringer
🎵: `Escape` by Sappheiros (under a Creative Commons by 3.0 license - music powered by BreakingCopyright)
#RainforestRescue #RestoreNature #CutTheRedTape #ForTheRainforests #ForThePlanet #PlantARainforest #Daintree #FarNorthQueensland #TreesAreTheAnswer
#CritterCorner: If you love the Southern Cassowary as much as we do, you may have a few questions about this beautiful, flightless bird 💚.
Over the years, we`ve compiled a list of FAQs and answers to help us all understand #cassowaries better: www.rainforestrescue.org.au/explore-the-rainforest/save-the-cassowary/faqs (link in bio) 💚.
How do you report a sighting? What`s that thing on its head? How many eggs do cassowaries lay? And, of course, how can you help protect these dino-birds and their habitat... and so much more!
If you have more questions, we`d love to hear from you!
💌 info@rainforestrescue.org.au
📷: Martin Stringer
#SouthernCassowary #Daintree #DaintreeRainforest #DaintreeBirds #RainforestGardener #FarNorthQueensland #RainforestGuardian #Cassowary #FNQ #TropicalRainforest #AustralianRainforest #AncientRainforest #ProtectRainforestsForever #SupportNotForProfits #Donate #DinoBirds
#NextGenRainforestRescuers are a passionate community of young conservation heroes who are raising funds, planting trees, making documentaries, educating themselves (and others), and driving change in countless creative and impactful ways. They’re the future of our planet 🌍.
Know a #NextGenRainforestRescuer who deserves to be featured?
Send us an email at info@rainforestrescue.org.au 💌.
Want to organise your own #ForestFundraiser? Visit our website for ideas on how to get started: www.rainforestrescue.org.au/make-an-impact/forest-fundraisers (link in bio) 💚.
📷: Silvia Di Domenicantonio
#PlantTrees #DaintreeRainforest #RainforestGuardian #YoungPeople #Youth #LoveTrees #RainforestJourney #AustralianRainforest #Conservation #Environment #TreesAreTheAnswer #Daintree #DaintreeNationalPark #MoreTrees #Donate #SupportNotForProfits
Even rainforest restoration can get tangled in red tape.
We’re collaborating with Douglas Shire Council to update planning laws so Nature can thrive, and restoration becomes the norm, not the exception.
💚 Join us: www.rainforestrescue.org.au/red-tape (link in bio) 💚
📸: Martin Stringer
#RestoreNature #ForThePlanet #RainforestRescue #FarNorthQueensland #PlantARainforest #CutTheRedTape #Daintree #ForTheRainforests #TreesAreTheAnswer
Today it feels like a lifetime ago since @douglasshirecouncil granted planning approval for the Native Nursery to be constructed on the Cow Bay site. In that time, tens of thousands of healthy, resilient young trees have been propagated within the Nursery before heading out to be planted in restoration sites nearby 🌱🌱🌱.
Last month, Mayor Lisa Scomazzon and Councillors Damien Meadows, Abigail Noli, Michael Rees and Roy Zammataro visited the Nursery keen to gain a deeper understanding of Rainforest Rescue’s projects and strategies for restoration.
Many different conversations took place; and especially discussing our team`s shifting focus towards the Daintree riparian and flood plain restoration to help increase resilience of the area, especially against adverse weather conditions and catastrophic flooding events.
Read more online: www.rainforestrescue.org.au/douglas-shire-council-visit-our-native-nursery (link in bio) 💚.
Discover more: www.rainforestrescue.org.au/our-impact/plant-a-rainforest/native-nursery-cow-bay (link in bio) 💚.
#Daintree #DaintreeRainforest #DaintreePlants #DaintreeTrees #DaintreeNursery #ProtectRainforest #AncientRainforest #NativePlantNursery #NativeTreeNursery #NativeNursery #FNQ #DouglasShireCouncil #AustralianRainforest #AustralianFauna #AustralianTrees
According to Queensland’s Cassowary Recovery Plan (EPA, 2007), the population of Southern Cassowaries in the Wet Tropics was estimated at 2,500–4,000 adults in 1988 (Crome & Moore, 1990). By 2001, that number had dropped to fewer than 1,500 (Moore & Moore, 2001).
Today, it’s estimated that around 4,600 Australian Southern Cassowaries remain in the wild - an encouraging sign that the population may be stabilising.
But we can’t stop now. These magnificent birds still face serious threats and we must ensure their rainforest habitat is protected, restored, and preserved forever.
🌿 Become a #RainforestGuardian today:
www.rainforestrescue.org.au/make-an-impact/rainforest-guardians (link in bio) 💚
📷: Visit Daintree Rainforest
#RainforestGuardians #DaintreeRainforest #Daintree #Conservation #ProtectARainforest #AncientRainforest #FarNorthQueensland #Community #TropicalRainforest #FNQ #Restoration #RainforestRestoration #ProtectRainforestsForever #SouthernCassowary #Cassowary #DaintreeBirds #DaintreeWildlife #DaintreeFauna
#ForestFlora: Blue Quandong (Elaeocarpus angustifolius) is one of Australia’s fastest-growing rainforest trees 🌳🌳🌳
The bright blue fruit has long been used by First Nations Peoples. While tart and slightly bitter, it was traditionally eaten raw, or sometimes crushed and mixed with water to form an edible paste. In some regions, the fruit was picked green and buried in sand to help soften and sweeten it.
Today, its bold, tangy flavour is often captured in jams and preserves. Have you tasted it?
Want to learn more about some of the important seeds of the Daintree? Grab a cuppa & join us for a `Significant Seeds Smoko` break: www.rainforestrescue.org.au/join-us-for-a-significant-seeds-smoko (link in bio) ☕️🤓.
📷: Martin Stringer
#BlueQuandong #BushTucker #RainforestFood #RainforestTrees #NativePlants #DaintreeRainforest #AncientFood #EdibleNativePlants #RainforestBerry #QuandongLove
We believe restoring rainforest should be simple.
But right now, it’s considered a “development” under the current planning scheme. That’s why we’re working with Council to rethink what land use means when it’s for the planet.
🌳 Be part of the change: www.rainforestrescue.org.au/red-tape (link in bio)
📸: Martin Stringer
🎵: `Escape` by Sappheiros (under a Creative Commons by 3.0 license - music powered by BreakingCopyright)
#ForTheRainforests #CutTheRedTape #TreesAreTheAnswer #FarNorthQueensland #RainforestRescue #PlantARainforest #Daintree #ForThePlanet #RestoreNature
