Protect 100 acres of vital Australian rainforest

Dear Donors,

Wish you could all be here with us. This is really a great time of year to be in the rainforest and experience the majesty and beauty only 135 million years can create. It is also the perfect time to get your hands dirty and get to work with matters of utmost importance. We need to protect, extend and recover this ancient rainforest for future generations and the planet.

We have just recovered from a very wet “wet season” (Nov to May) and are now in the process of preparing more of the degraded forest for replanting. We have now planted in excess of 4,000 trees on the site, mostly rainforest trees that provide fruit for the endangered cassowary. We are looking forward to a great planting season and getting more trees in the ground. The drier weather also allows us to continue with the trapping of feral pigs which cause a lot of damage to newly planted trees and are a danger to cassowary chicks, apart from the real possibility of them spreading disease throughout our farms. With the rain came weeds, more weeds and yes, plenty more weeds. Golly, our Conservation Officer and main man at the Mansford Reserve, kept very busy battling the weeds, flooding (repairing washed away roads), repairing fence lines, tagging trees, tending the ARF nursery and of course working when he could on the new rehabilitation site. Staff and volunteers also played a big hand during the rainy season and this is as they say the nature of business out here amongst nature's finest tropical rainforest. The cassowary were booming, the cockatoos were singing and the Bennett's Tree-Kangaroos were playing in the trees. Rainforests come to life in the wet season as thousands upon thousands of species of flora and fauna spring to life from the forest canopy to the forest floor. Thank you very much for helping us continue with our work. Please know we greatly appreciate every dollar, every dime. BTW--Did you know you could donate to our project via eBay? If you have an eBay account and would like to donate a % of the proceeds from sales, please visit http://www.ebaygivingworks.com/donatenow.html. You can donate as little as a dollar! Thank you again and please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have. We are here for you and we are here because of donors like you.

Cheers,

Roger & Paul