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#CritterCorner – Given that 26 September was World Cassowary Day, we wanted to shine the spotlight on our beloved Rainforest Gardener – the Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius [...]

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 [...]

Chair  of Rainforest Rescue Madeleine Faught with research assistant Melissa  Bautista celebrating their cassowary award. Photo Aslan Shand. Courtesy Echo Net Daily At the Wet Tropics Management [...]

A recent study examined the internal anatomy of a cassowary casque in an attempt to better understand its evolution and ecological function.The Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) is one of [...]

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 [...]

Male cassowaries are role model fathers for all dads, human or otherwise. As a hard-working parent, the male Cassowary is responsible for hatching their chicks and raising them, teaching them all [...]

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