Let’s save two more Daintree properties before Christmas!

Until the 24th of December, all gifts will be matched to help us purchase and protect Lot 8 and Lot 11 Buchanan Creek Road in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest. 

Every dollar you donate now will be matched as we strive to purchase and protect two precious Daintree Rainforest properties at Lot 8 Buchanan Creek Road and Lot 11 Buchanan Creek Road, both at Cow Bay. This is a fantastic opportunity to double the impact of your gift so please donate now. 

Your gift will make 2x the impact and help save the Daintree Rainforest from the threat of development.

All gifts will be matched up to $120,000 and with your support, we will raise a total of $240,000 and save two Daintree Rainforest properties today.

Recognising the urgent need to protect the Daintree a leadership team of donors has stepped up to establish this Matching Gift Challenge. Their aim is to inspire others to support the purchase of two very special properties and protect them forever. We need your help, please, donate now.

Purchasing one property at a time has not stopped others from buying land, clearing the rainforest, and building houses. In the past few months, we have witnessed the clearing of several properties in Cow Bay. We’ve got to do more to save the Daintree. We have purchased 18 Daintree Rainforest properties but we can't stop now. 

I have obtained an option to purchase Lot 8 Buchanan Creek Road and Lot 11 Buchanan Creek Road in Cow Bay. To purchase these two properties, I still need to raise $240,000 and achieve that by the 24^th of December. 

Your gift will make 2x the impact and help save the Daintree Rainforest from the threat of development.

All gifts will be matched up to $120,000 and with your support, we will raise a total of $240,000 and save two Daintree Rainforest properties today.

Lot 8 Buchanan Creek Road, Cow Bay

Lot 8 Buchanan Creek Road and Lot 11 Buchanan Creek Road provide an important refuge for biodiversity.

During our survey of Lot 8 Buchanan Creek Road, we found two Threatened species of birds, the Macleay's Fig-parrot and the Southern Cassowary. A total of 176 species of native plants were found on the property including three Threatened species, Noah's Walnut (Endiandra microneura), China Camp Laurel (Beilschmiedia castrisinensis), and Gray’s Walnut (Endiandra grayi), all listed as Threatened in the Queensland Nature Conservation Act (1992). Please read the results of the survey here. 

Your gift will make 2x the impact and help save the Daintree Rainforest from the threat of development.

All gifts will be matched up to $120,000 and with your support, we will raise a total of $240,000 and save two Daintree Rainforest properties today.

We need your help, please, donate now.

Lot 11 Buchanan Creek Road. Cow Bay

Our ecologist identified a total of 143 species of rainforest plants on Lot 11 Buchanan Creek Road which also provides habitat for these three Threatened species of rainforest plants - the Noah's Walnut, China Camp Laurel, and Grey's Walnut. We also confirmed this property as a stomping ground of the endangered Southern Cassowary.­ 

These two properties both share a boundary with the Daintree National Park and World Heritage Area.

They can be developed for housing, just as nearby properties have been in the past. 

Preventing development saves the rainforest from clearing. That prevents fragmentation of the rainforest and settlement that brings more traffic on local roads, the introduction of domestic pets that prey on wildlife, and exotic plants that become weeds. Winding back the disastrous subdivision helps protect the most biodiverse ecosystem in Australia.

Your gift will make 2x the impact and help save the Daintree Rainforest from the threat of development.

All gifts will be matched up to $120,000 and with your support, we will raise a total of $240,000 and save two Daintree Rainforest properties today.

We need your help, please, donate now.

Stopping development will help save the Macleay's Fig-parrot and the Southern Cassowary

My vision for the Daintree Lowland Rainforest requires the buyback of all undeveloped freehold properties in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest and their management for nature conservation. Not only do we want to see no further development, but we also want the negative impacts of the rural residential subdivision to be reversed. 

Your gift will make 2x the impact and help save the Daintree Rainforest from the threat of development.

All gifts will be matched up to $120,000 and with your support, we will raise a total of $240,000 and save two Daintree Rainforest properties today.

We need your help, please, donate now.

With your help, we will purchase and protect these two Daintree Rainforest properties at Lot 8 Buchannan Creek Road and Lot 11 Buchannan Creek Road in Cow Bay.

Please see photos of Lot 8 Buchanan Creek Road here and photos of Lot 11 Buchanan Creek Road here. 

With the help of thousands of people, in Australia and around the world we've raised the funds needed to purchase 18 properties since June 2019. Now we are ready to save Lot 8 and Lot 11 Buchanan Creek Road from the threat of development and all that is needed is your support.

Please, join me and make a donation to purchase and protect these two important Daintree Rainforest properties.

For the Daintree Rainforest,

Kelvin Davies

Founder

Rainforest 4 Foundation

P.S. If you have any questions about the purchase and protection of land in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest please see our answers to frequently asked questions or email me at [email protected]. You can also call me during business hours at 0437 423 119.

This Matching Gift Challenge is possible thanks to the generous support of our leadership group of donors to the Rainforest 4 Foundation and the business sponsor supporting our nonprofit partners HalfCut.

The Rainforest4 Foundation and HalfCut recognise that we are stronger together and now raise funds together for the buyback of properties in the Daintree that are at risk of clearing and development.

HalfCut founders Jessica and Jimmy