By Cesar Barbosa Garcia | Engagement Coordinator
This year, all of us at Rainforest Rescue are thrilled to be celebrating our 25th anniversary! This milestone marks a quarter-century of dedicated efforts to protect and restore the world's most ancient rainforest, the Daintree. So far, thanks to your unwavering support, we’ve planted over 373,000 trees and safeguarded 45 rainforest properties – that's over 2,030,000 square metres of rainforest rescued!
It all began back in 1999, when Big Scrub Landcare Group established Rainforest Rescue to help support their efforts to protect the Big Scrub Rainforest. The Big Scrub is a remarkable ecosystem…or was, before it was reduced by as much as 99%. But Rainforest Rescue saw that the Daintree Rainforest was in trouble and under-protected, and so turned its focus to the world’s most ancient rainforest – Australia’s largest and most biodiverse.
What mattered then still matters now. Rainforests, as biodiverse, ecologically rich habitats that also fix and store carbon from the atmosphere, are important to our planet’s overall health, and to our common future. They're also critically important to the rare and threatened species they harbour and support.
As we prepare for our upcoming 46th rainforest property rescue (look out for news about that one soon), we wanted to take the opportunity to take you back to the start of Rainforest Rescue's presence in the Daintree Rainforest, near the turn of the century.
It's not often we get the time to sit with a wild place, but in an attempt to bring that wildness directly to you, we created a unique video, and invite you to devote a moment to experience the Baralba Corridor Nature Refuge. In these three evocative minutes complete with a late-morning breeze, you'll learn about the heritage and significance of the first property Rainforest Rescue protected through our partnership with the Daintree Rainforest Foundation.
Allen Sheather, Rainforest Rescue's Ecological Advisor, was instrumental in the bond between these two organisations – his reminiscences are shared with footage from Baralba Corridor as it stands today, over 20 years since it was first protected.
Watch the Baralba Corridor video in the link provided below.
Thanks to supporters like you, Baralba Corridor remains a protected sanctuary of lowland rainforest, reminding us that the best time to protect precious habitats like this is now. Thank you for your continued dedication to protecting our rainforests and for being part of this incredible journey with us.
For the rainforests,
César and the Rainforest Rescue team
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By Cesar Barbosa Garcia | Engagement Coordinator
By Cesar Barbosa Garcia | Engagement Coordinator
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