Flynn Hawkey: A Next Generation Rainforest Rescuer
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 [...]
Southern Cassowary Safe Habitat Extended
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 [...]
Rainforest Rescue Wins Thorsborne Award
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 Casque of Thousands
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 [...]
Chicks Eating us out of House and Home
It has now been four months since three cassowary chicks came into our care at the Cassowary Rehabilitation Centre. The chicks are rapidly growing and now eat around the equivalent of a [...]
Caring for Cassowary Chicks
Rainforest Rescue is caring for three orphan cassowary chicks at Garners Beach Cassowary Rehabilitation Recovery Centre. This facility is managed under a partnership with the Qld Department of [...]
The Southern Cassowary…A Model Father
The male cassowary is a role model father for all dads, human or otherwise. As a hard-working parent, they hatch their chicks and raise them, teaching them all they need to know until they are [...]
Saving Australia’s Southern Cassowary
Rainforest Rescue is leading a national multi-organisational campaign to save Australia’s Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius Johnsonnii) and to raise awareness about the [...]
