About the Big Scrub

Australia was covered with ancient rainforest some 40 million years ago when it split off from the southern supercontinent of Gondwana. As Australia drifted north and the climate dried, the rainforest contracted to the wet tropics, a small are in the moist subtropics and high-rainfall temperate areas, principally in Tasmania. The Big Scrub was the […]

About Us

Big Scrub Landcare’s mission is to restore and care for our critically endangered rainforest. Founded in 1993, we are one of the largest Landcare groups in the country with more than 400 members and many supporters. We are the voice of the rainforest. We talk to and work with governments, business, private landholders, community organisations […]

Restoring the Big Scrub

I want to take you on a brief journey to a lovely patch of rainforest near our home in the Byron Bay hinterland. It is a very hot day but when you walk in to the forest, it is cool. You look around and see an amazing diversity of life: many species of trees, some […]