Huge volunteer tree planting effort a great success
ENVIRONMENT
Rainforest Rescue’s annual community tree planting day, held earlier this month at NightWings Rainforest Centre, reached new heights when an unprecedented 3,000 native seedlings were planted in just under three hours and with the help of almost 100 volunteers and staff.
And in thanking those who got their hands dirty for the Daintree, Rainforest Rescue singled out the local community, local business operators and supporters from overseas who came out to turn sugarcane crop back to Rainforest.
Rainforest Rescue has been protecting and restoring rainforests in Australia and internationally since 1998. It does so by purchasing and protecting the biodiversity of high conservation value rainforest, and by re-establishing rainforest through planting, maintenance and restoration.
The NightWings project, managed by owner Annie Schoenberger, is a 15-hectare property bordering Wet Tropics world heritage listed Rainforest. With the help of Rainforest Rescue, old sugarcane farmland is being restored to native rainforest.
The rehabilitation will benefit vulnerable and threatened flora and fauna species in the future by creating a wildlife corridor from the mountains down to the Daintree River.
Annie’s great passion is her rescued bats, the primary focus of NightWings. The rainforest benefits considerably from these agile, night time pollinators and propagators.
Rainforest Rescue collected and propagated these seeds in its native plant nursery, and made ready for the volunteers to plant.
With a rapid growth rate in the tropics, it doesn't take long for the trees to grow and the wildlife to return.
For more information: www.rainforestrescue.org.au
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