Protect a Rainforest

An International Spotlight on Our Mission to Protect Rainforests Forever

Earlier this year, Rainforest Rescue was honoured to be featured in a powerful article by Adventure.com, an independent global travel journalism outlet that shares stories that matter.

In this in-depth piece, writer Lauren Smith and photographer Crystal Wright travelled to the Daintree to explore why this ancient rainforest demands not only admiration but urgent protection. You can read the full article here: Rainforest Rescue: Protecting the Daintree

This article beautifully captured Rainforest Rescue’s mission; a mission you’re part of. Whether you're donating, spreading the word, or simply staying connected, your support helps protect one of the world’s most extraordinary ecosystems.

What the Article Highlighted

• Rainforest Rescue’s land-purchasing strategy: Acquiring freehold rainforest properties to protect them from development and preserve biodiversity.
• Community empowerment: Working with Traditional Owners, local landholders, and residents to heal degraded land through ecological restoration.
• Conservation and ecotourism: Highlighting how protection efforts also help sustain respectful local livelihoods.

Stunning images of the canopy, forest floor, and native species – including the elusive cassowary – brought this message to life, helping international audiences understand both the beauty and the urgency of this work.

Why This Matters

The Daintree is the world’s oldest tropical rainforest, estimated to be over 180 million years old. It is a sanctuary for rare and endangered wildlife, and it plays a vital role in global climate stability and biodiversity.

Through the Protect a Rainforest project, your support enables us to:

• Secure high-conservation-value rainforest blocks and protect them forever
• Connect fragmented ecosystems through wildlife corridors
• Prevent inappropriate development in sensitive areas

This recent global exposure helps us reach more people, grow our impact, and build momentum, and it’s only possible because of your support.

What’s Next?

The journey of rainforest protection continues and what lies ahead is truly monumental.

With your support, Rainforest Rescue is preparing to take on one of our most ambitious challenges yet: the purchase and restoration of a nationally significant wetland that sits at the gateway to the Daintree. This site, within the McDowell Oxbow Wetland system, has been deeply impacted by decades of clearing but it also holds incredible potential.

Beside the Daintree River and adjacent to a property you've already helped us rescue – 110 Cape Tribulation Road – the Oxbow represents the missing link in a thriving, biodiverse corridor of life. If secured, it could become a living showcase of ecological recovery—lush rainforest sheltering restored waterways, home once again to fish nurseries, migratory birds, and wetland-dependent species.

Stay tuned, we’ll have more to share very soon.

Thank You

Every share, every donation, every moment of care helps us protect the Daintree forever.

With deepest gratitude,
The Rainforest Rescue team

Links:

• Rainforest Rescue Protecting the Daintree