THE BEST TIME IS NOW TO PROTECT RAINFORESTS FOREVER.
Celebrating 25 years of your support in protecting and restoring rainforests.
Protecting and Restoring Rainforests is Climate Action
How YOU can help
PROTECT A RAINFOREST
Our ‘Protect a Rainforest’ project focuses on purchasing rainforest blocks for conservation and protecting them forever, increasing connectivity and protecting biodiversity.
PLANT A RAINFOREST
Our ‘Plant a Rainforest’ projects replant rainforest and re-establish habitat for plants and animals’ endemic to that specific ecosystem. We believe Trees Are The Answer.
PROPAGATE AND GROW
Rainforest Rescue’s native nursery in Cow Bay propagates and grows all the rainforest trees for our Daintree lowland restoration projects. It’s time to grow!
From little things, big things grow
and look how you’ve helped rainforests grow since 1999!
320,412 in Australia
33,000 Overseas
44 in Daintree, Queensland
1 in Pyengana, Tasmania
1,222,114 in the Daintree
809,400 in Tasmania
by Nature Refuge status
in Australia
Founded on
25 March 1999
25 YEARS PROTECTING & RESTORING RAINFORESTS
In 1999, our founders set out to protect the under-protected rainforest in Australia. What matters then still matters now. Rainforests are biodiverse, ecologically rich habitats that are important to our planet’s health. To borrow a phrase, “The better time to plant a tree was 25 years ago. The best time is now.”
2024 ANNUAL COMMUNITY TREE PLANTING DAY
Rainforest Rescue’s 2024 Annual Community Tree Planting Day is scheduled for Saturday 18 May 2024 and you’re invited!
2024 also marks our 25th birthday, and we’re so excited to celebrate with you.
An event not to be missed!
YOUR SUPPORT WILL HELP THE NURSERY THRIVE
Help restore the Daintree Rainforest and plant more trees than ever before. To deliver a tree-planting capacity of 150,000 trees a year, the nursery needs a range of practical items. Your support is critical in ensuring the continuing operations of the Daintree’s largest nursery.
DONATE NOW
When you give generously, you become part of a committed team of individuals who collectively are helping to preserve some of the most biodiverse habitats and the species that live within them on this planet.
Become a Rainforest Rescuer today!
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You may have heard of #NextGenRainforestRescuers ? Maybe you even know one or two.
They`re a community of young conservation troopers that have been fundraising, planting trees, making documentaries, educating themselves and their peers, and helping create change in many diverse, impactful, and creative ways 💚.
Help us create a better future for all young people by becoming a Rainforest Guardian today: rainforestrescue.org.au/rainforest-guardians (🔗 in bio).
Or, if you know a #NextGenRainforestRescuer that you`d like to see featured, DM us here 💬 or email info@rainforestrescue.org.au 💌.
#AustralianRainforest #PlantTrees #DaintreeRainforest #RainforestGuardian #YoungPeople #Youth #LoveTrees #RainforestJourney @daintreediscovery @destinationdaintree @portdouglas #AustralianRainforest @qldparks @destinationdaintree @portdouglasdaintree @portdouglasuncovered @cairnstourism @cairnsaustralia #Conservation #Environment #TreesAreTheAnswer #Daintree #DaintreeNationalPark #PlantTrees #MoreTrees #Donate #SupportNotForProfits
📣 Important information re: the 2024 Annual Community Tree Planting 📣
📣 START TIME HAS CHANGED - EVENT WILL START AT 9:00am 📣
What to bring:
🌱 A water bottle (we will provide a water refill station)
🌳 Sturdy closed-toed boots/shoes (if it`s raining or has been wet we`d suggest gumboots or other waterproof boots)
🌱 Sun-safe attire e.g., hat & sunscreen and wet-weather gear e.g., gumboots & raincoat (we know this sounds odd, but the weather can be very unpredictable & it`s been unseasonably wet of late)
🌳 A willingness to get your hands dirty
🌱 Locals are encouraged to bring camping chairs or picnic rugs
If you haven`t already, please register for your free ticket at events.humanitix.com/2024-annual-planting (🔗 in bio).
We`re looking forward to seeing you all, planting more trees & celebrating 25 years of Rainforest Rescue 💚.
#PlantARainforest #TreesAreTheAnswer #RainforestRescueTurns25 #TreePlanting #PlantATree #DaintreeRainforest #RR25 #DaintreeRainforest
Have you seen `Planet Fungi: Follow the Rain`? It`s an exciting new documentary that follows world famous fungi hunters Stephen Axford and Catherine Marciniak (@planet_fungi🍄) on their search for the weird and wonderful fungi that emerge and teach us why fungi are critical to life as we know it.
There are millions of species of fungus that scientists think could exist but have not yet been identified 🍄🍄🍄. This is why we need many more curious young minds and passionate nature lovers to continue understanding the fascinating word of fungi.
*Not a sponsored post.
#Fungi #Fungus #DaintreeRainforest #Documentary #LoveFungi #NatureDocumentary #ProtectRainforestsForever #PlantARainforest
#ForestFlora: Have you seen the Daintree Satinash (Syzygium monospermum) before? These trees can grow up to 17m tall and have reddish-brown, smooth bark, and provide a cosy home for ants 🌳🐜🐜.
This unique tree flowers and fruits directly from its trunks or main branches. This unusual botanical trait is called cauliflory and the plants themselves are considered cauliflorous. The term is derived from the Latin ‘caulis’, meaning stem, and ‘flor’, meaning flower. Pretty cool!
Learn more about it on our website: rainforestrescue.org.au/forest-flora-daintree-satinash 👀.
📷: Roger Fryer and Jill Newland
#DaintreeSatinash #DaintreeFlowers #DaintreeTrees #DaintreeFlora #RainforestFlora #Rainforest #DaintreeRainforest #FNQ #Daintree #AncientFlora #LoveDaintree
It`s International Day of Plant Health 2024: Plant health, safe trade and digital technology 🌿.
Plants are life – we depend on them for 80% of the food we eat and 98% of the oxygen we breathe (@fao). Protecting plant health is essential to biodiversity and the wellbeing of everyone on the planet.
Today (and every day!), we want to help raise awareness of how protecting plant health can help end hunger, reduce poverty, protect biodiversity and the environment, and boost economic development.
Take a moment today to learn more about our new native nursery: www.rainforestrescue.org.au/native-nursery and www.rainforestrescue.org.au/nursery-appeal-thrive 🌱🌱🌱.
📷: Callicarpa candicans by Allen Sheather
#Daintree #DaintreeRainforest #DaintreePlants #DaintreeTrees #PlantHealth #DayOfPlantHealth @fao
Are you ready to #PlantARainforest? We cannot wait. The countdown is on! Our 2024 Annual Community Tree Planting Day is only a week away, on Saturday 18 May. And you are invited.
Come reconnect with the Daintree, plant trees and celebrate a big milestone with us - our 25th anniversary 💚.
Register today: rainforestrescue.org.au/2024-planting (link in bio) and let`s break our tree planting record together 🌳🌳🌳.
#DaintreeRainforest #TreePlanting #PlantATree #AustralianRainforest #FNQ #NativeNursery #Conservation #Queensland #AustralianTrees #TreesAreTheAnswer #TimeToGrow #RR25 #TheBestTimeIsNow
Your support makes a HUGE difference, helping the biggest Daintree`s nursery thrive 🌱🌳🌳.
To reach our goal of planting 150,000 trees per year, we need you to join us: www.rainforestrescue.org.au/thrive (link in bio) 💚.
#DaintreeRainforest #Rainforest #TreesAreTheAnswer #PlantTrees #DaintreeNursery #NativeNursery #Daintree #DaintreeAppeal #Donate #ProtectDaintree
If you ever feel like you are alone or the challenge is too big, join forces with others who are also passionate and committed, and doing a great job protecting the rainforest.
Hold your own Forest Fundraiser and help Protect Rainforests FOREVER: www.rainforestrescue.org.au/forest-fundraisers (link in bio) 💚.
Become a Rainforest Guardian today: www.rainforestrescue.org.au/rainforest-guardians (link in bio)💚.
Shop Rainforest Rescue mech: www.rainforestrescue.org.au/shop (link in bio) 💚.
And MORE! There are so many great ways to make a difference.
Your ongoing support allows us to purchase and protect rainforest to preserve biodiversity, and restore essential habitat for our native wildlife. Thank you!
#AustralianRainforest #PlantTrees #DaintreeRainforest #RainforestGuardian #LoveTrees #RainforestGuardian #ForestFundraiser #Conservation #Environment #TreesAreTheAnswer #Daintree #DaintreeNationalPark #PlantTrees #MoreTrees #Donate #SupportNotForProfits #AncientRainforest
Your support is critical in ensuring the operations of the Daintree’s largest nursery. We`re on a mission to deliver a tree-planting capacity of 150,000 trees a year. And we need your help 💚.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago… the second best time is now. Let`s do it together: rainforestrescue.org.au/nursery-appeal-thrive/ (🔗 in bio) 🌳🌳🌳.
#DaintreeRainforest #Rainforest #TreesAreTheAnswer #PlantTrees #DaintreeNursery #NativeNursery #Daintree #DaintreeAppeal #Donate #PlantARainforest #TimeToGrow #Restoration
#ForestFlora: Although fungi, which includes yeasts, rusts, smuts, mildews, moulds, and mushrooms, isn`t technically a part of flora or fauna and inhabits its own category of organisms, we want to tell you a little about Yellow Bridal Veil (Phallus multicolor), a species of fungus in the family Phallaceae or “stinkhorns” 🍄.
The fruit body of this alien-looking fungus is characterised by a cone or bell-shaped cap on a stalk and a delicate “lace skirt” (indusium) that hangs from beneath the cap almost reaching the ground. This ‘lace skirt’ grows mostly through the night, and spends around 10 to 15 hours fully unfolding. Have you ever spent time watching it 👀?
Head over to our website to learn more: www.rainforestrescue.org.au/forest-flora-yellow-bridal-veil (link in bio) 💚.
📸: Martin Stringer Photography
#ForestFungi #YellowBridalVeil #YellowNettedStinkhorn #PhallusMulticolor #Mushroom #Fungi #Daintree #DaintreeRainforest #ProtectRainforestsForever #ProtectTheDaintree #StinkHorns #AustralianMushrooms #Conservation #MushroomsOfInstagram #FungiOfInstagram #Flora #AustralianFlora
Do you know how to tell the difference between a Cane Toad (Rhinella marina) and a native frog? What about a tadpole and a ‘toadpole’?
Cane toads:
🚨 Cane toads begin their life in long, jelly-like strings called clutches (see picture 1). Each clutch can contain between 8,000 and 35,000 eggs and females may lay up to 2 clutches per year – that’s up to 70,000 baby toads per breeding female, per year 🤯.
🚨 Cane toad tadpoles are shiny black on top and have an opaque dark bluish grey or black sheen to their belly. They have an oval shaped body, are pointed at the snout and are often broad across the gills. They have opaque nostrils and a short tail that appears thin due to a transparent frill with no spots, patterns, or colour. They are approximately 30mm in length.
Native frogs:
🐸 There are over 240 species of native frog in Australia, and many begin life in lumps of jelly or foam in water among vegetation, but some prefer to lay their eggs in trees or on land. Frog egg clutches are typically much smaller than that of toads, ranging from just 16 eggs for the Corroboree Frog to nearly 4000 for the Bleating Tree Frog, for example.
🐸 Eggs and tadpoles vary in appearance depending on the species, as do incubation/hatching times. Native frog tadpoles are a variety of shapes and sizes, often larger than Cane toad tadpoles. Some species, such as the Spotted Marsh Frog tadpole, can look similar to Cane Toad tadpoles, so please don’t ID on colour alone.
To learn more about tadpole ID, as well as the differences between juvenile and adult Frogs and Toads, visit @WatergumCommunity website: watergum.org/cane-toad-or-native-frog
There’s also some great information available at feralscan.org.au/toadscan
#CaneToads #InvasiveSpecies #NativeFrogs #ProtectBiodiversity #ProtectRainforestsForever #ProtectRainforestsForever #Ecosystems #Rainforests #Daintree #CaneToadsOfInstagram #NatureReserve #ProtectRainforestsForever
We`re doubling our impact with less, with the help of data 🤓.
Everyday, we are surrounded by data that can help deepen our understanding of the environment and help us be more effective with the funding our supporters provide. For example, we need resources such as water, organic fertiliser and pest control to aid restoration plots. In reviewing the data, we identified some quick wins that our land management and nursery teams have implemented to lessen the demand for these resources.
This is very exciting, because when we scale this up across all the restoration plots over a longer period of time, we can see capital savings that we reallocate into other projects. We can achieve more with less!
Learn more about how we do it on our website: rainforestrescue.org.au/measuring-our-impact-doing-more-with-data (link in bio).
@jamescookuniversity #Daintree #AustralianRainforest #DaintreeRainforest #Conservation #Restoration #ProtectRainforests #ProtectDaintree #LoveDaintree #NativeNursery #ThrivingNature
Come reconnect with the Daintree and plant trees with us on Saturday, 18 May 2024 🌱🌳.
You don`t need much to join - grab your water bottle; sturdy closed-toed shoes, sun-safe attire, an eagerness to get your hands dirty and your free ticket! Register here: rainforestrescue.org.au/2024-planting (link in bio) 💚
#DaintreeRainforest #TreePlanting #PlantATree #AustralianRainforest #FNQ #NativeNursery #Conservation #Queensland #AustralianTrees #TreesAreTheAnswer #TimeToGrow #PlantARainforest #RR25 #TheBestTimeIsNow
The Daintree is Australia’s largest and most biodiverse rainforest - it has existed far longer than any other rainforest on the planet 🌳🌳🌳. It`s kind of a BIG deal! No wonder so many of us want to protect it.
Together, we can help extend Nature Refuges and expand Wildlife Corridors, allowing the native fauna and flora to thrive… FOREVER.
Wouldn`t that be amazing? We are already doing it, but we can only do it with your help.
Consider becoming a Rainforest Guardian today: rainforestrescue.org.au/rainforest-guardians (link in bio) 💚.
#RainforestGuardian #ProtectRainforest #DaintreeRainforest #AustralianRainforest #Conservation #DaintreeWildlife #NatureRefuge #WildlifeCorridors #PlantTrees #DaintreeNature #Donate
It`s Earth Day 🌏💚.
Today (and every day!), we want to help showcase ways that you can support conservation efforts and environmental protection.
This year, the theme for Earth Day is Planet vs. Plastics.
For the 54th edition of Earth Day, @earthdaynetwork, the organiser of Earth Day, have announced their commitment towards a 60% reduction in plastic production by 2040, and they`re calling for consumers and companies to get on board and help take action against plastic pollution.
Check out www.earthday.org for initiatives and activities you can engage with today.
Here, at Rainforest Rescue, some of the ways we have been reducing our plastic use include:
🥤 Avoiding single use plastic packaging by utilising keep cups, reusable straws etc.
🥣 Minimising waste at our events by working with providers to encourage the use of containers over cling wrap
🍶 Avoiding single use plastic bottles and ice packs by using our insulated, reusable water bottles
💚 Buying from companies that priortise sustainable, eco friendly packaging
🛍️ Carrying reusable bags to avoid the need for plastic or paper bags
... and much more!
Let us know in the comments below how you are helping to reduce the use of plastics, and how you`ll be celebrating Earth Day 🌏💚.
#PlanetVsPlastics #EarthDay #EarthDay2024 #Conservation #EnvironmentalProtection #EarthHealth #ProtectRainforestsForever #PlanetaryHealth #PlasticFree
Throughout the year, we`re celebrating and sharing our gratitude with everyone who has supported 25 years of Rainforest Rescue’s work. Thank you ALL 💚.
Two friends of our team, Tahlia Burchill-O`Brien and Sheryl J Burchill, recently shared their thoughts on why `the best time is now` for nurturing and growing a mutually respectful relationship with Rainforest Rescue and Kuku Yalanji Traditional Owners as Guardians of the Daintree Rainforest.
We want to thank both Tahlia and Sheryl for sharing their heartfelt words and meaningful perspectives on the deep connection between the Kuku Yalanji people and the Daintree Rainforest, as well as the crucial work being done by Rainforest Rescue.
For more information about our work visit www.rainforestrescue.org.au
#TheBestTimeIsNow #RR25 #KukuYalanji #TraditionalOwners #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #PlantARainforest #TimeToGrow #TreesAreTheAnswer #ProtectRainforestsForever #SherylJBurchill
The 2024 Annual Community Tree Planting Day, scheduled for 18 May, is a very special one - we are celebrating 25 years of Rainforest Rescue and we cannot wait to celebrate with you 🌱🌱🌳.
Come join us for a morning of planting trees, restoring the rainforest and connecting with like-minded people: rainforestrescue.org.au/2024-planting (link in bio).
#DaintreeRainforest #TreePlanting #PlantATree #AustralianRainforest #FNQ #NativeNursery #Conservation #Queensland #AustralianTrees #TreesAreTheAnswer #TimeToGrow #PlantARainforest #RR25 #TheBestTimeIsNow
The Daintree rainforest is one of the most complex tropical rainforest ecosystems on Earth.
It`s also one of the most biodiverse rainforests, continuously evolving and growing, living and breathing for over 180 million years - the Daintree is a unique and remarkable wonder 💚.
It makes sense that many of us want to preserve it.
If you are feeling it too, consider becoming a Rainforest Guardian: https://www.rainforestrescue.org.au/rainforest-guardians (link in bio) 💚.
📷: Emily Silverstone
#RainforestGuardian #Daintree #Rainforests #DaintreeRainforest #Conservation #ProtectTheDaintree #ProtectRainforestsForever #AustralianRainforest #DaintreeWildlife #Wildlife #ClimateChange
#CritterCorner: Did you know that Hercules Moths (Coscinocera hercules) don`t eat?
Well, they can`t because they don`t have mouths 😶.
As adult moths, they survive on food stores that they ate prior to metamorphosis 🐛🦋.
Hercules Moths spend most of their lives as caterpillars, and during that 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) 🌿.
Head over to our website to learn more: www.rainforestrescue.org.au/critter-corner-hercules-moth (link in bio) 💚.
📷: @minibeastwildlife
#HerculesMoth #AustralianMoths #Daintree #DaintreeRainforest #FNQ #Conservation #DaintreePlants #DaintreeWildlife #ProtectTheDaintree #RainforestWildlife #BleedingHeart #RedBeanTrees #CheeseTrees #TreesAreTheAnswer #DaintreeMoths #GiantMoths
2024 marks our 25th birthday!
And we’re so excited to celebrate with you 💚.
Come plant trees with us: www.rainforestrescue.org.au/2024-planting (link in bio) 🌱🌱🌳.
Our 2024 Annual Community Tree Planting Day is scheduled for Saturday 18 May, starting at 8am sharp.
#DaintreeRainforest #TreePlanting #PlantATree #AustralianRainforest #FNQ #NativeNursery #Conservation #Queensland #AustralianTrees #TreesAreTheAnswer #TimeToGrow #PlantARainforest #RR25 #TheBestTimeIsNow
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