Daintree Life Revegetation

The team at the end of planting in the last two updates at the Bells Road, Newell site. Students and teachers from Australia, USA and South America.

Another photo from Tuesday's school planting at the Bells Road site in Far North Queensland, Australia.

On Tuesday we hosted a school planting of another 160 trees at the Bells Road, Newell site. Great kids and great teachers, and feedback was that they all loved planting.

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

Hosting a lovely couple who wanted to plant trees at the Bells Road, Newell site on Saturday.

Great to host 20 people from the Sierra Club (USA) to plant another 150 trees at the Bells Road, Newell site in tropical far North Queensland yesterday.

Our next area for Tree-nation planting of 400 trees at the Bells Road, Newell site in far North Queensland, Australia. We are looking forward to turning this from weed grasses back to native forest.

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.

Preparing land for two school plantings at the Bells Road, Newell project, and a huge thank you to the landowners for the initial slashing. This will be another 300 trees going in, and first planting this year after a very long wet season.

One of the species we regularly plant on all our sites is the Drupe Fig (Ficus drupacea). A large spreading tree with bright orange fruit which turns nearly black when ripe, and eaten by Cassowaries, Rainforest Doves and Tube-nosed bats.

Before and now. Back on 29 March 2022, with a request from our local council, with council staff and volunteers, we planted 525 trees near the foreshore at Wonga Beach to replace weeds with coastal species. They have grown a bit (understatement) with some reaching 10-15 metres tall

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

Aerial shots taken 4 months apart (August & December) showing the whole of Zone B on the Bells Road, Newell project. The first shot shows 25-30% planted and the latest shot is almost fully planted and great tree growth to the right and bottom centre, as those areas were planted first

Local, Matty helping us at the Bells Road site yesterday as another 260 trees went into the ground. 5720 of an expected 6200 now planted on Zone B.

First flowering and a little forest friend. Just five months after planting, we have our first flower spikes appearing on Mallotus paniculatus. Commonly called 'Turn-in-the-wind', these fast growing pioneer species were planted knee-high, with many already over two metres tall. This