Must-Watch TV: Refugia’s Love Letter to the Planet featuring Big Scrub Landcare
Refugium: a place of refuge where a community of species survives after extinction in surrounding areas. This apt description of the remnants of Big Scrub rainforest is also the inspiration for a new docuseries created and produced by Mullumbimby-born Liana Cornell....
Big Scrub Landcare Resources
Over the past 25-plus years, Big Scrub Landcare has cared for more than 50 remnants of subtropical lowland rainforest as well as establishing new patches of rainforest from replanting. During this time, our team has worked with countless experts, spent innumerable...
Tales from the archives: When 10-foot carpet snakes attack
A personal contribution from Big Scrub Landcare member, Ken Dorey. The common carpet snake is a usually placid, frequently encountered member of the Big Scrub. That’s always how I’ve seen them, until I stumbled across a 10-foot specimen that wasn’t...
Brookfarm: Coopers Shoot
Brookfarm’s transformation from desolate farm to towering rainforest In 1989, Pamela and Martin Brook purchased a run-down dairy farm in the Byron Bay hinterland to live their dream of moving to the country. Over the decades since, they...
