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
Passing protection onto our partners at Gurrbum Nature Refuge
Excitingly, this year we sold Gurrbum Nature Refuge to our partners the Community for Coastal and Cassowary Conservation (C4), an organisation dedicated to protecting and preserving the unique biodiversity of the Wet Tropics region. C4 co-invested with QTFN to purchase this precious property in 2019. Over the last five years, QTFN and C4 have been […]
Meet Australia’s little otter, the Rakali
Meet the Rakali – a charming native animal that calls South Bank home. Often referred to as ‘Australia’s little otter’, rakali have a beautiful golden tummy and white-tipped tail. They also swim in a way that often has them mistaken for platypus. This Australian native can be found right in the heart of Brisbane, at […]
Waterways for Wildlife: One tree at a time
On 11 April, six members of the QTFN team headed out to Aroona Station to plant 300 trees. The trees were planted along a water course that is threatened by erosion and will benefit from more vegetation. Our Waterways for Wildlife project at Aroona aims to widen our riparian buffers to improve habitat quality, […]
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
Passing protection onto our partners at Gurrbum Nature Refuge
Excitingly, this year we sold Gurrbum Nature Refuge to our partners the Community for Coastal and Cassowary Conservation (C4), an organisation dedicated to protecting and preserving the unique biodiversity of the Wet Tropics region. C4 co-invested with QTFN to purchase this precious property in 2019. Over the last five years, QTFN and C4 have been […]
Meet Australia’s little otter, the Rakali
Meet the Rakali – a charming native animal that calls South Bank home. Often referred to as ‘Australia’s little otter’, rakali have a beautiful golden tummy and white-tipped tail. They also swim in a way that often has them mistaken for platypus. This Australian native can be found right in the heart of Brisbane, at […]
Waterways for Wildlife: One tree at a time
On 11 April, six members of the QTFN team headed out to Aroona Station to plant 300 trees. The trees were planted along a water course that is threatened by erosion and will benefit from more vegetation. Our Waterways for Wildlife project at Aroona aims to widen our riparian buffers to improve habitat quality, […]