Millions of years in the making, this can vanish in an instant. A timeless masterpiece of nature, sculpted over millions of years, the world's rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate.
But here's where you can make a real difference by protecting 2 Daintree lowland rainforest properties this Christmas!
Your Christmas gift could be the one that protects these properties. Every donation counts!
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.
With your help, Save the Daintree protects land in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest to ensure it will never be developed and every Daintree rainforest property we purchase sparks the process for it to be considered for protection under Queensland legislation. This includes the potential for it to be included in the Daintree National Park.
We’re turning the tide towards conservation in the Daintree Rainforest and protecting the biodiversity of this incredible ecosystem.
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About the properties
Development of housing continues because freehold land exists. It won't stop until all at-risk properties have been protected for conservation or lost to development.
To secure these properties for conservation, we need to raise the remaining funds.
If we don't, there is no guarantee they won't be bought by people who intend to develop the land for housing, now or into the future. We've got to do more to Save the Daintree.
Lot Lot 92 Cape Tribulation Road
Action: Purchase and protect Lot 92 Cape Tribulation Road (RP738993)
Location: Cow Bay, Queensland, Australia
Size: 8.9ha/89,000sqm
Vegetation type: Regional Ecosystem 7.3.4 Mesophyll vine forest with Licuala ramsayi
Threatened species: Southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsonii), simple pauper orchid (Aphyllorchis anomala), china camp laurel (Beilschmiedia castrisinensis), Gray’s walnut (Endiandra grayi), Noah's walnut (Endiandra microneura), climbing pandanus (Freycinetia percostata), iron malletwood (Rhodamnia sessiliflora), Daintree myrtle (Rhodomyrtus effusa).
Endangered ecological community: Lowland tropical rainforest of the Wet Tropics ecological community is listed as endangered under the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
Lot 463 Black Bean Road
Action: Purchase and protect Lot 463 Black Bean Road (RP742053) in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest to create the Black Bean Rainforest Refuge
Location: Cow Bay, Far North Queensland
Remnant rainforest to be protected as refuge: 1.4 hectares (14,000 sqm)
Vegetation type: Tropical rainforest (complex mesophyll vine forest) with two regional ecosystems defined by topography. Regional Ecosystem 7.11.1a and Regional Ecosystem 7.3.10a which is listed as “Of Concern” under the Queensland Vegetation Management Act 1999.
Threatened species: Southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsoni), Wet Tropics double-eyed fig-parrot (Cyclopsitta diophthalma macleayana), spectacled flying-fox (Pteropus conspicillatus), China camp laurel (Beilschmiedia castrisinensis), Gray’s walnut (Endiandra grayi), Noah's walnut (Endiandra microneura), climbing pandanus (Freycinetia percostata), Queensland black-stem tassel-fern (Phlegmariurus ledermannii).
Endangered ecological community: Lowland tropical rainforest of the Wet Tropics ecological community is listed as endangered under the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary outcomes.
For 4 years now, incredible people just like you have been supporting the protection of Daintree Rainforest, saving 30 high conservation value rainforest blocks. That's almost 800,000 square metres of vital habitat for iconic and threatened species, including the endangered southern cassowary, protected forever.
Please, act now to help secure the protection of two more Daintree Lowland Rainforest properties this Christmas.