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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