Daintree Lot 83
Walking together
QTFN’s landmark purchase of Daintree Lot 83 in September 2020, a 376-hectare property on Cape Tribulation Road in the Douglas Shire Council, provides the platform for a multi-faceted program with far-reaching environmental, social, economic and cultural benefits.
Make your impact
- Provided the financial injection required to purchase Daintree Lot 83 from the Douglas Shire Council.
- Collaborating with the Eastern Kuku Yalanji Traditional Owners, Douglas Shire Council, and the local community to protect a huge slice of the Daintree and restoring cassowary habitat on land previously cleared for cattle grazing.
- Conducting a baseline ecological surveys to provide a more detailed assessment of the species found on the property.
- The health of the Daintree rainforest is crucial. Hundreds of species including many endemic, rare and threatened species rely on the type of ecosystems found on Daintree Lot 83, such as the southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsonii), Bennett’s tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus bennettianus), species of rainforest stream frogs and numerous vulnerable and near threatened plant species.
- Daintree Lot 83 will demonstrate the power of cross-industry collaboration – between Governments, conservation groups and the community – to drive innovative solutions.
“The sale of this land puts the land in the hands of those who are best placed to enhance and protect biodiversity and restore habitat for wildlife. We can do this by collaborating with and supporting our conservation community to make a real difference.”
Michael Kerr, Douglas Shire Council Mayor
- Jabalbina Aboriginal Corporation
- Douglas Shire Council
- Community groups
Action & Insight
Walking together in the Daintree
In May, QTFN proudly delivered a valuable event on Eastern Kuku Yalanji Country: a two-day BioBlitz. We worked with local ecology experts and Jabalbina Yalanji Aboriginal Corporation rangers to survey biodiversity at Lot 83 in the Daintree. Funded by an Engaging Science Grant from the Office of the Queensland Chief Scientist, we were able to […]
The right kind of fire: building our landscapes’ resilience
Feathery-soft cool ash sits in my palm, disintegrating as it falls through my fingers. It was part of the lantana (Lantana camara) on fire not long ago, but now as it returns to the ground it will become a cover for regenerating species. Around me, a haze rises through the canopy, thin, pale clouds that […]
New plantings will help form a continuous habitat corridor from the creek to the ridges
Great to see the final plantings for round 2 of our Koala Habitat Restoration Partnership Program (KHRPP) in the ground! In the first photo you can see the new plantings in the foreground, previous KHRPP revegetation in the middle, and Queensland Blue Gum regional ecosystems 12.3.7 and the endangered 12.3.3. in the back. This picture, […]
Our work
- Provided the financial injection required to purchase Daintree Lot 83 from the Douglas Shire Council.
- Collaborating with the Eastern Kuku Yalanji Traditional Owners, Douglas Shire Council, and the local community to protect a huge slice of the Daintree and restoring cassowary habitat on land previously cleared for cattle grazing.
- Conducting a baseline ecological surveys to provide a more detailed assessment of the species found on the property.
Our impact
- The health of the Daintree rainforest is crucial. Hundreds of species including many endemic, rare and threatened species rely on the type of ecosystems found on Daintree Lot 83, such as the southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsonii), Bennett’s tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus bennettianus), species of rainforest stream frogs and numerous vulnerable and near threatened plant species.
- Daintree Lot 83 will demonstrate the power of cross-industry collaboration – between Governments, conservation groups and the community – to drive innovative solutions.
“The sale of this land puts the land in the hands of those who are best placed to enhance and protect biodiversity and restore habitat for wildlife. We can do this by collaborating with and supporting our conservation community to make a real difference.”
Michael Kerr, Douglas Shire Council Mayor
Who’s involved
- Jabalbina Aboriginal Corporation
- Douglas Shire Council
- Community groups
Action & insight
Action & Insight
Walking together in the Daintree
In May, QTFN proudly delivered a valuable event on Eastern Kuku Yalanji Country: a two-day BioBlitz. We worked with local ecology experts and Jabalbina Yalanji Aboriginal Corporation rangers to survey biodiversity at Lot 83 in the Daintree. Funded by an Engaging Science Grant from the Office of the Queensland Chief Scientist, we were able to […]
The right kind of fire: building our landscapes’ resilience
Feathery-soft cool ash sits in my palm, disintegrating as it falls through my fingers. It was part of the lantana (Lantana camara) on fire not long ago, but now as it returns to the ground it will become a cover for regenerating species. Around me, a haze rises through the canopy, thin, pale clouds that […]
New plantings will help form a continuous habitat corridor from the creek to the ridges
Great to see the final plantings for round 2 of our Koala Habitat Restoration Partnership Program (KHRPP) in the ground! In the first photo you can see the new plantings in the foreground, previous KHRPP revegetation in the middle, and Queensland Blue Gum regional ecosystems 12.3.7 and the endangered 12.3.3. in the back. This picture, […]