Rainforest Rescue

Rainforest Rescue

Rainforest Rescue is a not-for-profit organisation established in 1998 and currently based in Mullumbimby in northern New South Wales, Australia. Rainforest Rescue uses public donations and sponsorships to fund rainforest restoration and research projects to rebuild previously cleared rainforest. The organisation purchases privately-owned blocks of land in areas considered high conservation value to prevent these properties from further land clearing [Rainforest Rescue - www.rainforestrescue.org.au]

Rainforest Rescue runs projects in the Daintree Rainforest in Queensland, Australia; the Cloud Forest, Ecuador; Lamandau Nature Reserve in Borneo, Indonesia and Sinharaja Forest Reserve in Sri Lanka. Rainforest Rescue's projects help to prevent extinction of endangered plant and animal species, such as the Southern Cassowary and Bennett's Tree-kangaroo in Australia and the Orangutans in Indonesia, by protecting their habitat from logging or developing.Rainforest Rescue is an Australian company managed by a board of directors.

In the Daintree region, Rainforest Rescue identifies and purchases rainforest at risk of development and protects it forever by converting properties into Nature Refuges and removing all development rights.By protecting rainforest before it is destroyed, they maintain the carbon in the trees. The release of carbon into the atmosphere is a major contributor to Climate Change.

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External links

* http://www.rainforestrescue.org.au Rainforest Rescue


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