Daintree Life Revegetation

Australia

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Our project plants new rainforest on public and protected private land. Working with stakeholders, we plant and restore weed-filled areas to create authentic rainforest based on government regional mapping. Trees are grown locally from locally sourced seed, with the aim of restoring ecological function and increasing habitat and food resource for our wildlife, such as Southern cassowaries, Bennett's tree-kangaroos and Spectacled flying-foxes.

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SueM9 octubre 2021

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"Stand For Trees

This rainforest is called Daintree in Queensland, northern #Australia.

And several days ago, it was handed back over to the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people who have lived there for centuries."

Thank you

Hugo Bitouzé TN5 octubre 2022

A few days ago Tree Nation received a question from one of our online followers about the toxicity of the species Melia azedarach and its potential harm to humans and animals.

Here is the answer we received from Daintree Life:

Melia azedarach is indeed toxic to humans and some introduced animals, but is a vital part of the forest ecosystem in the Australian Wet Tropics region. Interestingly it also has great medicinal properties for burns, acne, etc. It is also a vital food source for our Tube-nosed bats, Nyctimene robinsoni - who love the small fruits.

The wet tropics have well over 2000 species of vascular plants and around one third of those are toxic to humans. Cassowary plums are a good example. Toxic to humans, the large blue fruit are a mainstay in the diet of cassowaries and Spectacled Flying-foxes. Raw Black bean seeds are toxic, but the local indigenous population have developed a way of processing pulp in sea water to make a nutritious safe food. The list goes on, toxic plants make up 30% of our rainforest species.

Thank you Daintree Life for your transparency and great insight on the topic!