Rainforest Rescue's 'Protect a Rainforest' project focuses on purchasing rainforest blocks for conservation and protecting them forever, increasing connectivity and protecting biodiversity. Purchasing and protecting rainforest that was excluded from the Daintree National Park and World Heritage Area extends priceless habitat, providing safe havens and nourishment while significantly building on existing protected areas.
The area known as the Daintree Lowland Rainforest is a narrow, 23km strip of tropical coastal lowland rainforest between the mountains of the Great Dividing Range, the Daintree River Estuary, and Cape Tribulation in Far North Queensland. Approximately half of the rainforest in these lowlands has been cleared since European settlement. The remaining rainforest is of exceptionally high biodiversity and conservation value.
Conservation work in the Daintree supports this ancient forest ecosystem that has been evolving longer than any other in the world - by tens of millions of years - and is Australia's largest and most biodiverse. With the help of Rainforest Rescuers - people like you - Rainforest Rescue have rescued over 45 Daintree Rainforest properties, significantly protecting pristine habitat for Nature and achieving a strong win for biodiversity. We are successful together.
Widely acknowledged by scientists as the oldest tropical rainforest in the world, the Daintree is estimated to have been evolving and thriving for as many as 185 million years - it contains an almost complete record of the evolution of plant life on Earth and has more ancient families of flowering plants than anywhere else in the world. From a total of 19 primitive flowering plant families on Earth, 12 families are represented in the Daintree region. We must protect this for future generations.
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