Please donate now to help us buy back a special piece of Daintree rainforest and protect it forever.
 Save these fantastical liana vines - some as thick as your arm - which curl through the deepest parts of Lot 10 Milky Pine Rd. |
Right now, with your help, we have the opportunity to buy Lot 10 Milky Pine Road. It’s a beautiful 1.3-hectare block that has never been built upon or even cleared.
And it’s up for sale.
If we don’t buy it, someone else will, and it is likely to be lost to the devastation of land clearance and housing development.
Please donate now towards our target of $52,607 that we must raise by Friday 16 April 2010.
 Protect the large rainforest trees on this property, with their unique buttress root formations. |
About a year ago, David Cook, Daintree Conservation Manager, and Kelvin Davies, CEO, identified this property as the next that we must purchase as part of our staged buy-back programme (we’ve bought 11 properties so far and saved them from development).
Lot 10 Milky Pine Road is special because it is in a pristine state and it adjoins a private nature reserve, which then backs on to the Daintree National Park and World Heritage Area.
David Cook, an expert zoologist and botanist, has assessed the property as being incredibly important to the biodiversity of the area.
Beautiful fan palms abound here.
Help us prevent their destruction."Purchasing and protecting this property will significantly improve the prospects of its native inhabitants, particularly the endangered Cassowary. These magnificent birds rely on the rainforest for survival and, in return, over a hundred native rainforest plants rely on the Cassowary for seed dispersal and regeneration.
I’ve found two dead Cassowaries recently: one a yearling who was mauled by a dog, and another who was hit by a car. It’s horrific what these housing developments can do to native animals.
It’s the Swiss cheese approach to development. All these holes of devastating clearing and building eat into the precious rainforest. The only way to change this is to buy back the privately owned land, one property at a time."
Thankfully, the owner has offered the property to us at a significantly reduced price and over the last year, with thanks to many of our supporters, we have raised half the funds we need to buy it.
But we still must raise an additional $52,607 by 16 April, so that we can buy this important rainforest property and keep it in its pristine state. Please, make your tax deductible donation now.
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More Information
- Daintree Buyback & Protect Forever Project
- Cow Bay Map of Properties Saved
- Cape Tribulation Map of Properties Saved
- Forest Creek Map of Properties Saved
- Daintree Critical Cassowary Habitat
- Daintree Buyback & Protect Forever FAQ's
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