With your help we can begin a new era of restoration at 110 Cape Tribulation Rd, a site with both intact habitat and land for restorable rainforest.

To plant more trees, we need seedlings, land, and you. 110 Cape Tribulation Rd is 75 acres of former sugarcane land consisting of around 12.5 acres of naturally regenerated habitat and 62.5 acres that can be restored. Perfect for replanting a rainforest, one seedling at a time.

Turning back time.

For much of the past 25 years our primary focus was the forever protection of intact Daintree Rainforest habitat. With our supporter’s help, Rainforest Rescue purchased small parcels of rainforest to protect them from the impact of development.
This is a great strategy because it works. With now almost 300 acres protected, it has provided vital habitat and connectivity. However, times have changed and while purchasing and protecting rainforest forever is effective, it is inherently a passive act—we must do more, we must now be active.

This is not because our ambitions have grown. It is now impossible—or wishful thinking—to ignore the environmental and biodiversity crises which we all face, and which demand our ever greater action.

Our hope has been that one day we can significantly increase the number of trees planted and the area of rainforest restored. To do this we need capacity to grow and plant… and land to restore into rainforest.

That day has come, and with your help we can replant a rainforest from scratch.

We have done something very similar which started almost ten years ago with Lot 46—now restored and renamed ‘Kurranji Bubu’. Coupled with our regular community tree plantings at ‘Nightwings’ we’ve proven that it is entirely possible to regrow viable, lush rainforest habitat.

We now have the ideal site to do this at a greater scale: 110 Cape Tribulation Road.

This 30 hectare site at 110 Cape Tribulation Road was a former sugar cane farm, and its cost of $425,000 makes this purchase the largest in our history. The board has committed to this purchase with a deposit recently paid. This is indeed a new era. This is your vision coming to life; and as one of our most trusted and loyal donors, I urge you to support this today.

— Rachel White, Chair of Rainforest Rescue