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Rainforest Warriors: New book recounts social and environmental history of the Big Scrub

Rainforest Warriors: New book recounts social and environmental history of the Big Scrub

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Editor’s note: The words below by Stephen Wyatt provide an insight into his book ‘Rainforest Warriors’ and the history of the Big Scrub. When the Northern Rivers went from rural to radical in the 1970s, the scene was set for a stoush with loggers and government to...
The Booyong Reserve story: 25 years of restoring a unique riverine remnant

The Booyong Reserve story: 25 years of restoring a unique riverine remnant

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By Darren Bailey. The Booyong Flora Reserve is a unique rainforest remnant of the former Big Scrub. The rainforest occupies 13ha of low lying flats located at the junction of the Wilsons River and Pearces Creek. It is the only true riverine rainforest remnant on crown...
Rainforest Connections 2024 Recap: Long overdue rainforest conference united conservationists in Ballina

Rainforest Connections 2024 Recap: Long overdue rainforest conference united conservationists in Ballina

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We had the pleasure of being a major sponsor and presenter at Rainforest Connections 2024 a few months back – the first conference in over twenty years dedicated to rainforest conservation, an event which gave rainforest practitioners a much needed chance to unite in...
Major Big Scrub bird monitoring project gets underway

Major Big Scrub bird monitoring project gets underway

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Our exciting new project to systematically monitor Big Scrub bird species is officially underway with the deployment of bioacoustic recording devices and cutting-edge bird call analysis software at sites across the Big Scrub.  With funding support from Rekindle...
Announcement: Science Saving Rainforests, our world-first Australian science project, to save precious rainforests

Announcement: Science Saving Rainforests, our world-first Australian science project, to save precious rainforests

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The future of Australian rainforests is at a crossroads. Research has shown that what’s left of the once mighty rainforests of Northern New South Wales are now critically endangered and could face extinction because of a serious lack of genetic diversity. A world...
Mark Dunphy announced as Big Scrub RC’s new President

Mark Dunphy announced as Big Scrub RC’s new President

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Our Co-Founder and Vice President, Mark Dunphy, has assumed the position of President of Big Scrub Rainforest Conservancy following our annual general meeting in December.  Mark was voted in by members at the AGM, which was the last presided over by Dr Tony...
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🎬 If you haven’t seen our short film “Koala 🎬 If you haven’t seen our short film “Koalas in the Big Scrub: A Conservation Dilemma”, please take a look. The Big Scrub is built from over 450 species of flora, of which over 40 are classified as threatened in NSW (around 20 are endangered or critically endangered). It’s home to over 60 threatened species of fauna (9 are endangered or critically endangered). Where rainforest once grew, rainforest must be replanted. Please help us create habitat for the parrots, fruit doves, lyrebirds, reptiles, pademelons, quolls and many other amazing species of the Big Scrub. 📽️: @patchworks.eco Supported by: @_brookfarm_ , @explore_byronbay @firewheelrainforestnursery and many more. #bigscrubrainforest
With all this rain about, keep an eye out for the With all this rain about, keep an eye out for the Big Scrub’s weird and wonderful fungi popping up. This impressive coral fungi popped up in the Boatharbour remnant. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you haven’t seen the incredible documentary Planrt Fungi: Follow the Rain, shot by local filmmakers (mostly in the Big Scrub), it’s now on Netflix. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We use various fungi in our plantings to increase the growth speed or rainforest plantings. Without fungi, many of our forests would not exist at all. 🤯
In 2017, we released our coffee table book The Big In 2017, we released our coffee table book The Big Scrub Rainforest: A Journey Through Time at the Byron Writers Festival. Our new edition, released earlier this year, is now available to buy on our website. Presented by Big Scrub Rainforest Conservancy and Rous County Council and proudly supported by Brookfarm, the book includes a moving foreword from friend of Big Scrub Rainforest Conservancy, the legendary Bob Brown. Head to the link in our bio to get your copy. — — — “As far as the eye could see, the Big Scrub’s vast green canopy, here and there topped by stately figs and cedars, was enlivened by thousands of brilliant birds wheeling up and descending back into the rainforest amongst the ‘branches festooned with orchids and ferns’. The birds disseminated the seeds of the fruits and so were regenerating one of wild Earth’s most ancient and splendid gardens. On the Big Scrub’s ferny floor moved dwarf cassowaries, rufus scrub-birds, bower birds, spotted-tailed quolls, red-necked pademelons and, in the streams where the ‘waters gently slid or cascaded over lichen and moss-covered rocks’, cod, platypuses and water dragons. Tens of thousands of years ago the ancestors of the Big Scrub’s Bundjalung people came to live in this paradise, adding to the seed dispersal which kept it vibrant and one of the most species-rich ecosystems on the planet. Then came catastrophe. In the last 40 years of the nineteenth century more than 99% of the Big Scrub was cleared and burnt for farming. The Bundjalung were displaced and many species of the rainforest wildlife were extirpated. Yet, even in the midst of this Big Scrub catastrophe a new and defiant idea seeded in the forest – for its protection and regeneration…”
What a night on Saturday and a wonderful fundraise What a night on Saturday and a wonderful fundraiser put on by the @firewheelrainforestnursery crew! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The Scrubbers Ball raised funds for our work saving the Big Scrub and for the Dorroughby Hall. Great to see so many come out and let their hair down in the name of charity! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Thanks to all the Scrubbers who dressed up for the “Tuxgown” theme and made it such an amazing night. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Big shout out to Lismore Council for supporting the event, Mark Burton for working tirelessly on sound and lights, Jo and Joel from Firewheel, and @commonpeoplebrewing and @capebyrondistillery for putting on drinks.

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