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‘Rainforest Journey’ – a film by Martin Stringer – takes you on a visual journey into the Daintree Rainforest, Australia’s largest and most biodiverse and the world’s [...]

Spring has arrived on Saturday the 8th of October in Far North Queensland with the launch of the Cassowary Art Trail in Kuranda. Rainforest Rescue provided a well-attended booth with information [...]

Cooper Creek meanders through the midst of a 180 million-year-old rainforest. Credit Martin Stringer [‘Daintree Revival’ by Johan Augustin, appeared in Wild Magazine, 2022 Winter [...]

Have you heard about The Cassowary Trail? If you’ve been following us for a while, you may have seen our blog back in Oct 2021 – if you missed it, you can read it here. So, [...]

You may have seen our recent #CritterCorner article about our beloved Southern Cassowaries and why they’re so important (if you missed it, you can read it here)… but have you heard [...]

Given that 26 September was World Cassowary Day, we wanted to shine the spotlight on our beloved Rainforest Gardener – the Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsonii). Adult Southern [...]

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 [...]

Putting Nature Back is Working in the Lower Daintree as cassowary habitat extends. All of us at Rainforest Rescue this past week were thrilled when Joe Reichl, our Daintree Land Manager, got word [...]

Chair  of Rainforest Rescue Madeleine Faught with research assistant Melissa  Bautista celebrating their cassowary award. Photo Aslan Shand. Courtesy Echo Net Daily At the Wet Tropics Management [...]

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 [...]