Fauna

Meet Flynn Hawkey! Flynn is a year 11 student at Trinity College South Australia who has a keen interest in the cassowary and it’s natural habitat. One of Rainforest Rescue’s four key [...]

Putting Nature Back is Working in the Lower Daintree as cassowary habitat extends. All of us at Rainforest Rescue this past week were thrilled when Joe Reichl, our Daintree Land Manager, got word [...]

Reproduced with permission from Wet Tropics Management Authority (WTMA) Australia is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world. Recognised as one of seventeen ‘megadiverse’ nations, [...]

It has now been four months since three cassowary chicks came into our care at the Cassowary Rehabilitation Centre. The chicks are rapidly growing and now eat around the equivalent of a [...]

Rainforest Rescue is caring for three orphan cassowary chicks at Garners Beach Cassowary Rehabilitation Recovery Centre. This facility is managed under a partnership with the Qld Department of [...]

Rainforest Rescue has been working with project partner, Orangutan Information Centre (OIC) to restore illegally cleared national park in Northern Sumatra since 2009. Our recent site visit to the [...]

Palm oil is the world’s most popular vegetable oil. Used in most consumer goods, this particular oil may be cheap but it comes at a tremendous cost to the environment. Palm oil has been linked to [...]

Today more than two-thirds of the Lowlands remain unprotected – most of the rainforest is in the hands of private owners – and can be developed and the pristine rainforest destroyed at any time. [...]

Rainforest Rescue is leading a national multi-organisational campaign to save Australia’s Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius Johnsonnii) and to raise awareness about the [...]