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We thought this landscape was lost forever… | 🌱 Help us restore this abandoned farm to Nature 💚

With your help we can begin a new era of habitat restoration in the Daintree Rainforest. To plant more trees, we need seedlings, land, and you. 110 Cape Tribulation Rd is 75 acres of former sugarcane land consisting of around 12.5 acres of naturally regenerated habitat and 62.5 acres that can be restored. Perfect for replanting a rainforest, one seedling at a time. Learn more and donate to rescuing and restoring 110 Cape Tribulation Road at: https://www.rainforestrescue.org.au/l... Turning back time. For much of the past 25 years our primary focus was the forever protection of intact Daintree Rainforest habitat. With our supporter’s help, Rainforest Rescue purchased small parcels of rainforest to protect them from the impact of development. This is a great strategy because it works. With now almost 300 acres protected, it has provided vital habitat and connectivity. However, times have changed and while purchasing and protecting rainforest forever is effective, it is inherently a passive act—we must do more, we must now be active. This is not because our ambitions have grown. It is now impossible—or wishful thinking—to ignore the environmental and biodiversity crises which we all face, and which demand our ever-greater action. Our hope has been that one day we can significantly increase the number of trees planted and the area of rainforest restored. To do this we need capacity to grow and plant… and land to restore into rainforest. That day has come, and with your help we can replant a rainforest from scratch. We have done something very similar which started almost ten years ago with Lot 46— now restored and renamed ‘Kurranji Bubu’. Coupled with our regular community tree plantings at ‘Nightwings’ we’ve proven that it is entirely possible to regrow viable, lush rainforest habitat. We now have the ideal site to do this at a greater scale: 110 Cape Tribulation Road. Learn more and donate to rescuing and restoring Lot 110 at: https://www.rainforestrescue.org.au/l... Why 110 Cape Tribulation Rd? It’s 75 acres (30Ha) of former sugarcane land. It has around 12.5 acres (5Ha) of naturally regenerated habitat. It has a very significant 62.5 acres (25Ha) that can be restored: it’s rare and threatened ecosystem designations will provide habitat for the regional and migratory species that rely on these ecotypes for their very survival, and It has a high-profile location on the main road to the Daintree Ferry which will be the ideal spot for an information centre on the Daintree and for future community planting days. Time for transition Our local area has been faced with very significant economic changes and challenges, including the recent closure of the sugarcane mill here in Mossman, just south of the Daintree. Many landowners have been hurt by this change, and we feel for them. Yet, the harshness of this new reality means there is indeed land coming onto the market that is ripe for new methods and purposes. In a few years, this will become a part of what will drive the new Green Economy and help transition a region that has been utterly dependent on government-subsidised sugarcane farming, to one that leads the way in restoration and climate-positive agricultural programs. It is a bittersweet twist that this change can become exactly the kind of activity which will help amplify the kind of environmental change we want at a local level and at a national level. However, whilst this means that now and in the years to come, there will be an increasing number of sites that were once agricultural land coming onto the market. Properties such as 110 Cape Tribulation Road, with its intact habitat to conserve and with room alongside to restore, are still relatively rare. A site survey also reveals that prized ecosystems at 110 Cape Tribulation Road exist and is quite rare due to the ubiquity of sugarcane farming; the land is relatively flat aiding regrowth, it is within a flooding/ high tidal flood area and our assessment revealed that a tractor can easily be used for maintenance… another requirement for scale. Learn more and donate to rescuing and restoring 110 Cape Tribulation Road at: https://www.rainforestrescue.org.au/l... - - - - Video by ‪@MartinStringerVIDEO‬ Additional still images thanks to David White / Solar Whisper Wildlife and Crocodile Cruises #daintreerainforest #australia #farnorthqueensland #tropicalrainforest #conservation #growth #plants #planting #nursery #horticulture #seeds #propagation #charity #climatechange #timetogrow #environment #rainforestconservation #endangeredspecies #greenery #rainforests #restoration #regenerativefarming #regenerativeagriculture #forestrestoration #landrestoration #rainforest