Monday 13 April 2015

1000 Flowers for the Planet - #501 Protect the Daintree Forest

1000 Flowers for the Planet - #501 Protect the Daintree Forest


At [https://www.rainforestrescue.org.au/page/19/save-the-daintree-rainforest] the site states: “The Daintree Rainforest is of international conservation importance as one of the most significant regional ecosystems in the world.”
The Daintree Rainforest is in the north of the state of Queensland on Australia’s east coast. It is vital that we ensure the Daintree is protected and that its survival lasts into the future – forever. It may even be as important as the one place on earth that can provide us with our own solutions to survival into the future. It is the oldest tropical rainforest in the world, with prehistoric plant species. “It contains an almost complete record of the evolution of plant life on Earth, and has more ancient families of flowering plants than anywhere else in the world, including the entire Amazon jungle.” Despite its World Heritage status, in the 1980s some of the lowland forest area was sold and developed. Now there are programs devised to buy back this land so it may return to natural rainforest and preserve the biodiversity of the area and its rich ecosystem. You can help by making a donation towards these buy-backs and by spreading the word that this important work is being done.

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