Purchase and Protect Forever Endangered Rainforest

It’s official: Lot 18 Cape Kimberley Road is safe from development

YOU DID IT

Thanks to you, our community of Rainforest Rescuers & Rainforest Guardians who believe in the importance of nature over development, this beautiful rainforest property will be protected from development and will continue to provide essential habitat for the many local endemic and endangered species, like the Southern Cassowary.

Together we are Protecting Rainforests Forever!

AT RAINFOREST RESCUE IT’S NOT OFTEN THAT A SINGLE PROPERTY COMES UP THAT LEAVES ALL OF US SPEECHLESS, YET LOT 18 CAPE KIMBERLEY ROAD IS SUCH A PROPERTY. BECAUSE OF YOUR SUPPORT, IT WILL NOW BE PROTECTED FOREVER.

We worked for over a year to secure this rescue and, after a false start where our asking price offer was refused and then a call for offers was made, we were successful.

We were committed to saving Lot 18 Cape Kimberley Road and as per our mission, no other alternative was acceptable. We did this knowing we're not alone – that generous supporters like yourself had our back.

A RARE OPPORTUNITY

Lot 18 Cape Kimberley Road—the name belies the true majesty of what this area of pristine rainforest represents—is almost 9 hectares of mature Spur Mahogany and Mossman Mahogany, as well as several Silky Oak species including Fishtail Silky Oak, Briar Silky Oak, Cream Silky Oak, and Red Tulip Oak. And so much more!

It provides a rich and vibrant habitat that supports our beloved and endangered Cassowaries, the wonderful Bennett’s tree kangaroos, tiny jumping spiders, and large-shelled snails… the list is significant as is this crucial habitat.

Our Ecological Advisor, Allen Sheather, noted the property’s significant conservation value: “Lot 18 borders the National Park and World Heritage Area on three sides and its western boundary is against a lot that is also as undisturbed.”

Allen noted that the species present, “exemplifies established, mature rainforest—it is missing any weed incursions and has a very high, intact canopy populated by many large buttress rooted trees and not so many mid-canopy species that can often be seen even in good rainforest that has endured severe weather events.”

THANK YOU!

We can’t thank you enough for your ongoing support and belief in the work of Rainforest Rescue. Our 35th rescue in the Daintree World Heritage Area is only possible because people like you care enough to make a difference.

This is now 36 properties in the Daintree – and you can add Lot 83 Cape Tribulation Rd to that list as well, thanks to our partnership with Queensland Trust for Nature. AND – more good news to come!

In the meantime, know that we are deeply grateful to be able to do this work together – we couldn’t do it without you.

To celebrate this stunning example of Australian rainforest, Martin Stringer, our incredibly talented Media Producer, made a video and we want to share it with you ... protecting pristine rainforest such as Lot 18 Cape Kimberley Road, is what we get out of bed for ...

Check out the video here

 For the rainforest,

The Team at Rainforest Rescue

TOGETHER WE ARE PROTECTING RAINFORESTS FOREVER

At Rainforest Rescue it’s not often that a single property comes up that leaves all of us speechless, yet Lot 18 Cape Kimberley Road is such a property. With your help, we can protect it forever. YOU make the difference between development and thriving, protected rainforest.

Lot 18 Cape Kimberley Road—the name belies the true majesty of what this area of pristine rainforest represents—is almost 9 hectares of mature Spur Mahogany and Mossman Mahogany, as well as several Silky Oak species including Fishtail Silky Oak, Briar Silky Oak, Cream Silky Oak, and Red Tulip Oak. And so much more!

It provides a rich and vibrant habitat that supports our beloved and endangered Cassowaries, the wonderful spotted-tail quolls, the tree kangaroos, tiny jumping spiders, and large-shelled snails ... the list is significant as is this crucial habitat.

Our Ecological Advisor, Allen Sheather, noted the property’s significant conservation value. “Lot 18 borders the National Park and World Heritage Area on three sides and its western boundary is against a lot that is also as undisturbed.”

Allen noted that the species present, “exemplifies established, mature rainforest— it is missing any weed incursions and has a very high, intact canopy populated by many large buttress rooted trees and not so many mid-canopy species that can often be seen even in good rainforest that has endured severe weather events.”

AND IT IS BEAUTIFUL

"The vegetation found on Lot 18 is Complex Mesophyll Vine Forest on foothills and appears to be a very good example of such. It is completely undisturbed right up to every boundary and beyond", says Allen Sheather, Ecological Advisor for Rainforest Rescue.

It is a sublime expression of Nature at its most beautiful and mere words to describe it do not do it justice; the sights of untouched rainforest, the sounds of silence punctuated by occasional bird calls, the humid richness, calm and sense of serene one-ness with Nature.

IT IS ENTOXICATING

There are times where one connects so deeply with nature and a single property such as this, that to protect it forever is not just an opportunity, but a duty—a duty borne out of the love and admiration for an untouched part of paradise, and because someone must do it.

The only way we will be successful to rescue this very beautiful, very whole, and very worthy parcel of rainforest is together – and today I need you.

Together, we can buy back and protect this outstanding rainforest property.

In this video Justin McMahon, Rainforest Rescue Land Manager, tells us what makes Lot 18 so special.