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

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.

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

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

Highlighting a tree species that we plant in all of our revegetation sites. Although this update doesn't have any picture of the tree, its fruits or flowers, the Freshwater Mangrove (Carallia brachiata) is a tree growing up to 10 m tall. This tree is the host plant for the Four O'clock