Daintree Life Revegetation

Baby bat season is here. Meet little Toby Bear - an orphaned 4-week-old endangered Spectacled Flying-fox pup, who was found crawling on the road at Cooya Beach on Wednesday. Rescued and stabilised by local carers, he now joins two others in our care, and is feeding really well. So

New planting site: Bells Road Project, Zone C, Australia

Zone C adds 400 trees of new rainforest on weed-filled land, planted to match government regional mapping. Trees are grown locally from locally sourced seed, restoring habitat and food for Southern cassowaries, Bennett's

One of the species that will benefit from our planting is the Papuan Frogmouth (Podargus papuensis) found in forested areas throughout tropical Northern Australia and New Guinea. We photographed this one recently.

This insect totally depends on trees. The Prickly Katydid (Phricta spinosa) - also called the Spiny Tree Cricket - is a large, highly camouflaged insect found in the Daintree Rainforest. Adults grow up to 10 cm long and spend days motionless on tree trunks, blending in with moss

A tree that we commonly plant in all of our revegetation sites is the Red-leaf fig (Ficus congesta). With very early and ongoing fruiting, these trees are a valuable food resource for many of our native birds and Tube-nosed Bats. The fruits change to this yellow colour as they ripen

With the arrival of the wet season here in the wet tropics, every frog with something to say comes out at night. Connie photographed this White-Lipped Tree Frog (Litoria infrafrenata) in full-on singing/calling mode. These animals greatly benefit from tree planting activities within

One animal that will greatly benefit from our plantings is the endangered Spectacled Flying-fox. These rainforest fruit feeders only live in the wet tropics region of Australia, and a huge range of trees we plant are flying-fox food trees. We are also wildlife carers - specialising

Featured in all our plantings - this is a Variegated Fig. The fruit is cauliflorous - meaning it grows out directly from the trunk and larger branches. This is a favourite fruit of many species of wildlife such as Flying-foxes, Fruit-eating rainforest doves and Southern cassowaries

A stunning local iconic Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius). We are very privileged to share our environment with these amazing birds. Our revegetation work provides more valuable food resource by planting multiple native fruiting rainforest trees for them.

We photographed this little Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (Meliphaga notata) amongst trees we planted around 5 years ago. Regular and welcome visitors.

Humans (including Daintree Life) are planting trees in projects all over the world. But let's not forget the wildlife. Here are just a few of our local helpers. All of these creatures spread rainforest seed in the Daintree.

Adult Cassowary and two chicks visiting our property in Cow Bay (north Queensland) - feeding on rainforest fruits. These amazing animals have turned up each day for three days.

Planting trees bear fruit. We planted this Red-leaf fig (Ficus congesta) around 5 years ago. Like many figs, this one has cauliflorous fruit - meaning they sprout directly from the trunk and larger branches. Our visiting cassowaries love these, and when ripe, it is so nice to watch

We photographed this beautiful Southern Cassowary feeding on fruits of Red-leaf fig and Powderpuff lilly pilly. What made this so special is that we planted both trees about four years ago.

While brush-cutting weeds amongst planted trees at our Newell site, I missed damaging this nest of eggs by sheer luck. I would not normally photograph eggs, but was standing above them with a noisy brush-cutter and had my phone in my pocket. Once I had moved on, I heard someone 'telling