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There is a place where the rainforest meets the reef - the Daintree Rainforest. Parts of the Daintree remain unprotected, which places them at risk from development.

Critically endangered coastal (littoral) rainforest is a vital habitat for wildlife and helps with reducing soil erosion and leaching of excess nutrients on to nearby coral reefs. A healthy rainforest can help maintain a healthy coral reef!

Ever wondered how you can help to protect the rainforest? And how you can help to protect coral reef?

There are just a few places on Earth where these two amazing habitats are found alongside each other - like the Daintree Rainforest in Far North Queensland, Australia.

Lot 1 Cape Tribulation Road is an incredibly special place where the rainforest meets the reef. In fact, this land has two different types of rainforest, both threatened by the potential risk of development and the effects of climate change.

Learn more and donate to protect this rainforest: https://www.rainforestrescue.org.au/l...

At Rainforest Rescue, while we’re very keen to plant more trees and restore more precious Daintree habitat, we know that protecting undisturbed and pristine habitat is essential for maintaining the threatened populations of species that live there.

This property – in fact all the protected coastal properties – play a crucial role in helping prevent soil runoff into the sea and onto the reef.

Littoral (or coastal) rainforest also provides invaluable refugia and foraging grounds for the rare and threatened species of the Daintree that we all love so much, like the Southern Cassowary and Bennett’s Tree-Kangaroo. For thousands of years this rainforest area and the reef it is connected to has also held cultural significance to the traditional owners of this region, the Kuku Yalanji people.

Healthy coral reefs provide the molecules that create cloud formation which drive weather patterns and induce rainfall that rainforests depend on. While rainforests act as the kidneys of the land to hold fast the soil and ensure water draining off these magnificent places is clear and nutrient poor so corals don’t suffocate.

It’s a fine balance that has been going on for millennia but things are rapidly and profoundly changing.

Increasing global temperatures are causing widespread mass coral bleaching and in several years coral mortality. This in turn has an impact on rainfall in adjacent forests, which will eventually dry out and alter these moisture sensitive systems to the point where they are even susceptible to burning.

Clearly, we must prevent this.

Every effort matters, which is why we need your help to buy Lot 1.

Donate now at: https://www.rainforestrescue.org.au/l...

In addition to protecting vital Littoral Rainforests, like those at Lot 1, the other thing we can do for rainforests is create more habitat to increase the overall density and retain as much moisture as possible. This also creates refuges for wildlife and increases the resilience of these systems.

Although the Daintree isn’t being logged and cleared wholesale like other parts of Queensland, Tasmania and New South Wales, it still suffers from development and increased human activities – the preciousness of this place is beyond the mere value of any ‘development’.

Rainforest Rescue has stringent guidelines with regards to properties we protect. We prioritise areas that have the highest ecological conservation values: intact habitat, canopy cover, connectivity to other protected areas or endangered areas that should be, and of course to National Parks.

But overall, we always look to protect the unprotected Daintree.

Removing another development threat so close to such a valuable coastal ecosystem is an important win for Nature, and with your help this property won’t become a beachfront destination.

Please help us with a donation to rescue this pristine property and Protect it Forever.

Every step we take, no matter how modest or how insignificant it may seem, is a step for preserving what is valuable to all of us; nature. And the step you take is indeed a step to building your legacy together with Rainforest Rescue.

Donate now at:
https://www.rainforestrescue.org.au/l...

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Learn more about the Daintree rainforest:
https://www.rainforestrescue.org.au/d...

Learn more about the Southern Cassowary:
https://www.rainforestrescue.org.au/s...

Thankyou to Martin Stringer for his video production and photography.

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