Media Coverage

Below is a selection of articles quoting Big Scrub Rainforest Conservancy’s leaders and sharing news of our conservation efforts.

Please direct new media inquiries to chris@bigscrubrainforest.org

Science Saving Rainforests

Our flagship program, Science Saving Rainforests, has been the subject of multiple industry conference presentations and stories in the media. It is a long-term project that will restore genetic diversity to key rainforest tree species, making them more resilient to disease, pests and climate change – a world-first in its field.

ABC Radio National: The Science Show

Restoring the scattered remnants of an ancient rainforest

Listen

ABC News

Rainforest project to create new generation of ‘super trees’ on rural property near Lismore

Read

ABC: A Big Country

More than 10,000 leaves from 60 plant species found between Far North Qld and southern NSW have been collected

Listen

Live Science

Rainforest of super trees descended from lost supercontinent Gondwana being created in Australia

Read

From the Archives

Daily Telegraph: Bob Brown joins Big Scrub Rainforest Day

The chair of the Bob Brown Foundation and founder of Bush Heritage Australia has been announced as a keynote speaker for the 18th annual Big Scrub Rainforest Day being held on Sunday, October 16 at Rocky Creek Dam.

Speaking from Tasmania ahead of his attendance at this year’s event, Mr Brown said: “The Big Scrub is one of Australia’s iconic rainforest landscapes and was once the largest continuous expanse of lowland subtropical rainforest in Australia, covering an estimated 75,000 ha of fertile basalt-derived soils between Nightcap Range and the Richmond River.”

Echo Publications: Order of Australia for Big Scrub founder

Big Scrub Rainforest Conservancy President Dr. Tony Parkes has been appointed as an Officer (AO) of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to conservation and the environment through the restoration of critically endangered subtropical rainforest in northern New South Wales.

Parkes says he is delighted that this award recognises services to conservation. ‘I accept this award on behalf of the many extraordinary people who are dedicated to saving from extinction, Australia’s many endangered species and ecosystems, particularly critically endangered lowland subtropical rainforest and its rich biodiversity,’ he said.

ABC News: Stone & Wood donates $1m to the Big Scrub

While neither company would disclose the sale price, Lion has committed to building Stone & Wood’s $50 million brewery at Murwillumbah, a $5 million donation to the InGrained Foundation, and a $1 million donation to Big Scrub Landcare, a group restoring and caring for the critically endangered rainforest.

Big Scrub Landcare president Dr Tony Parkes said it would fund its world-leading project developing a seed bank to restore pockets of the rainforest.

Echo Publications: Big Scrub Rainforest Day named best conservation festival on the planet

Former leader of the Greens, Bob Brown, said he felt that if there is a festival on planet earth that is doing more to help rainforests than the Big Scrub, then he doesn’t know about. it. “That’s why it’s such a terrific pleasure to be here today with some thousands of people who are committed to restoration rather than destruction,’ Brown said.

“I want to talk today on the line of: don’t get depressed, get active. It’s a pretty simple dictum, but as I have said on many occasions, I take my leaf from the philosopher of the last century, Bertrand Russell, who said, “the trouble with the world is that, the stupid are cocksure, but the intelligent are full of self doubt.”