Protect 100 acres of vital Australian rainforest

Out with the Weed, in with the Tree…

Hi there….,

Well its June here in the beautiful Daintree National Park, North Queensland, which signals the dry season in the tropics. We have a very busy few months ahead of us to achieve our targets in extending and repairing the Rainforest.

We were lucky enough to have 24 students from St Kevin’s College in Victoria come up and give us a hand in some weed eradication, site testing and clean up. They came in three waves to the site to slog it out by slashing, rubbish removal, weed pulling and of course tree planting. We now have four different kinds of weed eradication tests in progress for best practice in the future. The kids were able to take with them some valuable lessons in caring for our environment as well as splinters, bruises and sore muscles for their hard work, for which we are very grateful.

The dry season allows us to have full access to the site that we don’t have during the wet season. We have found the feral pigs have been in and damaged some hard work already done on the site back in November 2008 which needs to be repaired. We have now completed site preparation of 2000 square meters and planted 800 rainforest trees to start the transformation from degraded land to new rainforest.

We appreciate your continued support and look forward to the hard work your kind donations make possible. Making an incredible environmental impact is not easy, but donors such as you make it easier. GlobalGiving has had such an important impact on our environmental efforts. The ARF is a better Foundation because of all of you and the Project Leader looks forward to updating you soon on this field work in progress.

Thanks Aye!!

Jacinta Allen McCosh Office Manager Australian Rainforest Foundation