We're ready to make this a big year for saving the Daintree Rainforest and our first goal is to finalise the purchase of Lot 92 Cape Tribulation Road. 

We know the land buyback works, and that's demonstrated by the 32 Daintree properties purchased under Save the Daintree so far. There are many at-risk Daintree properties up for sale right now. We have an opportunity to purchase and protect them and save the iconic Daintree Lowland Rainforest. 

This 8.9 hectare freehold property provides essential habitat for the endangered southern cassowary and 7 threatened species of plants. It's also zoned for rural residential development. With your help, we'll protect this property and manage it for conservation ensuring it will never be developed.

Lot 92 Cape Tribulation Road, Daintree Rainforest

Lot 92 shares a boundary with the Daintree National Park. 

To purchase this property, we set an ambitious target of raising $445,000 by the end of December. We didn't get there, however, we have raised $254,256. So while we are over halfway there, I still need to raise $191,744.

Here's the good news. A major donor has again stepped up and pledged a gift of $100,000 to match all donations, dollar for dollar, until we reach the target!

With this matched gift offer in place, every $2.50 you give will save one square metre of this special Daintree property!

Your donation of $25 will save 10 sqm of the Daintree Rainforest. Your donation of $250 will save 100 sqm and a donation of $2,500 will save 1,000 sqm of the world's oldest rainforest. 

Please, donate now and help purchase and protect Lot 92 Cape Tribulation Road in the Daintree Rainforest. Prefer to use PayPal? Please donate here. 

A haven for threatened species

Set over 8.9 hectares of Daintree Lowland Rainforest, the ecosystem and vegetation on Lot 92 Cape Tribulation Road is mapped as essential habitat for the endangered southern cassowary. 

During a survey on the property our ecologist recorded the presence of Cassowaries and a recent sighting on neighbouring Lot 93 further confirms how valuable the area is to this iconic endangered species. See this video of a Cassowary on Lot 93.

We are now over halfway to ensuring this incredible and biodiverse rainforest property is protected forever. 

Knowing the situation is becoming urgent, a major donor has agreed to match every donation, dollar for dollar, until our goal of $445,000 is met. 

Now every $2.50 you donate will save one square metre of this unique Daintree property!

Your donation of $25 will save 10 sqm of the Daintree Rainforest. Your donation of $250 will save 100 sqm and a donation of $2,500 will save 1,000 sqm of the world oldest rainforest. 

Please, donate now and help purchase and protect Lot 92 Cape Tribulation Road in the Daintree Rainforest. Prefer to use PayPal? Please donate here. 

Lot 92 Cape Tribulation Road has 180 species of native plants, with 7 of them listed as threatened. You can read a summary of the survey by our ecologist here

Despite this, it is zoned for rural residential development by the Douglas Shire Council. We can't allow this rainforest block to be developed. 

Please, act now and donate to help us purchase Lot 92 Cape Tribulation Road for conservation.

With the matched gift offer in place, every $2.50 you give will save one square metre of this unique Daintree property!

Your donation of $25 will save 10 sqm of the Daintree Rainforest. Your donation of $250 will save 100 sqm and a donation of $2,500 will save 1,000 sqm of the world oldest rainforest. 

Please, donate now and help purchase and protect Lot 92 Cape Tribulation Road in the Daintree Rainforest. Prefer to use PayPal? Please donate here. 

Prefer to use PayPal? Please donate here. 

The China camp laurel (Beilschmiedia castrisinensis), a threatened species occurring on Lot 92 Cape Tribulation Road. 

An important link to the Daintree National Park

Lot 92 adjoins the Daintree National Park and World Heritage Area on two boundaries,  offering significant habitat linkage across the landscape between the coast and the mountains. 

Development for housing in the Daintree results in fragmentation and degradation of the rainforest, while settlement brings domestic dogs that attack wildlife and exotic plants that become environmental weeds. 

Fragmentation occurs when forests are reduced in the area through deforestation, road building or other developments, dividing the forest into smaller blocks and creating what is known as the edge effect. The impacts of the edge effect have been thoroughly documented over several decades and show the significant detrimental effects on biodiversity.

With the purchase of this property, we will prevent further fragmentation of the Daintree Rainforest. 

Please, act now and donate to help us purchase Lot 92 Cape Tribulation Road for conservation.

With the matched gift offer in place, every $2.50 you give will save one square metre of this unique Daintree property!

Your donation of $25 will save 10 sqm of the Daintree Rainforest. Your donation of $250 will save 100 sqm and a donation of $2,500 will save 1,000 sqm of the world oldest rainforest. 

Please, donate now and help purchase and protect Lot 92 Cape Tribulation Road in the Daintree Rainforest. 

Prefer to use PayPal? Please donate here. 

Lot 92 adjoins the Daintree National Park / World Heritage Area. 

Why is buyback needed?

The Daintree Lowland Rainforest is the oldest rainforest on Earth, having existed continuously for over 120 million years. It holds exceptionally high biodiversity and conservation value and is the largest continuous area of tropical rainforest remaining in Australia. 

In 1982, the Queensland Government approved a rural residential subdivision of 1,136 properties in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest. As a result, two-thirds of the lowland rainforest (between the Daintree River and Cape Tribulation) was excluded from protection in the Daintree National Park and Wet Tropics World Heritage Area that was declared in 1988.

Through land buyback, we’re turning the tide towards conservation in the Daintree Rainforest and protecting the biodiversity of this incredible ecosystem. 

All donations will be matched dollar for dollar by a major donor, effectively doubling the impact of your donation! That means every $2.50 you give will save one square metre of this unique Daintree property.

Please, act now to help secure the future of Cow Bay, through the purchase and protection of Lot 92 Cape Tribulation Road.

Thank you to everyone who has donated so far towards the purchase and protection of Lot 92 Cape Tribulation Road in Cow Bay. 

Let's keep this good thing going and make 2025 a big year for protecting the Daintree. 

Thanks again for your support,

Kelvin Davies

Founder

Gondwana Rainforest Trust and the Save the Daintree Rainforest program. 

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