With development increasing in the Daintree there is an urgent need to buy back more at-risk rainforest land. Now, with two Daintree properties in Thornton Peak Drive already purchased and protected it's time for a third. Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive is 3.75 hectares of critical habitat for native wildlife and plants. We must act now to protect this important property from development.  

Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive

Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive at Forest Creek is a freehold property in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest that provides habitat for the endangered Southern Cassowary and the rare Bennett's Tree-kangaroo. It can also be developed for housing just as nearby properties have been in the past. 

Nearby properties in Forest Creek have been cleared for rural residential development. That’s why, with your help, we will buy Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive and protect it forever.

We need to raise $150,000 by the 30th of June 2022 to purchase and protect Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive. The property is 3.75-hectares and this represents a purchase price of $4 per sqm. 

Please, make your tax-deductible donation now to help purchase and protect Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest. 

Each $4.00 you donate will purchase and protect one square metre of the Lowland Daintree Rainforest. When you make a donation of $20 you will save five square metres, a donation of $40 will save ten square metres, a donation of $100 will save 25 square metres and $400 will save 100 square metres of Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest. 

Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive

Lot 6 comprises two distinct ecosystems that occur due to changes in soil/drainage conditions. One is a Sclerophyll open woodland (approx 10% of the area) and the other is a closed canopy Rainforest habitat (approx 90% of the area). Fan Palms (Licuala ramsayi) occur on the property and the species delineates the two main types of vegetation — the sclerophyll vegetation (sclerophyll forests generally are dominated by plants that have hard leaves adapted to drought and are fire-tolerant) — and the mesophyll vine forest (tropical rainforest) featuring these Fan Palms in abundance. The presence of Cassowaries has been noted from scats within the rainforest habitat near the creek in the eastern portions of the property.

We have purchased two nearby properties, Lot 3 in January 2020 and Lot 2 in July 2021. Adding lot 6 will increase the area of protected land in Forest Creek as these three properties all share a boundary with the Daintree National Park and World Heritage Area. 

We’ve taken many photographs of Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive at Forest Creek which you can see here.

We are now prioritising the purchase of Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive as we have exchanged a contract of sale for the property and must raise the funds by the 30th of June.  

Please, make your tax-deductible donation now to help purchase and protect Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest. 

Each $4.00 you donate will purchase and protect one square metre of the Lowland Daintree Rainforest. When you make a donation of $20 you will save five square metres, a donation of $40 will save ten square metres, a donation of $100 will save 25 square metres and $400 will save 100 square metres of Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest. 

Fan Palms on Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive in the Daintree Rainforest

Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive is 3.75 hectares of critical habitat. A small creek runs through the rainforest where the presence of the Southern Cassowary has been observed. The rare Bennett's Tree-kangaroo has also been sighted nearby.

Fan Palms (Licuala ramsayi) occur on the property and the species delineates the two main types of vegetation: sclerophyll vegetation which is generally dominated by plants that have hard leaves adapted to drought and fire; and mesophyll vine forest, which is tropical rainforest featuring these Fan Palms in abundance.

Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive is a freehold property and subject to approval by Douglas Shire Council it can be developed for housing. We must act now to purchase and protect this property and save this important rainforest from the threat of development.

Please, make your tax-deductible donation now to help purchase and protect Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest. 

Each $4.00 you donate will purchase and protect one square metre of the Lowland Daintree Rainforest. When you make a donation of $20 you will save five square metres, a donation of $40 will save ten square metres, a donation of $100 will save 25 square metres and $400 will save 100 square metres of Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest. 

Broad-leaved paperbark (Melaleuca viridiflora) on Lot 6

Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive is located at Forest Creek in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest. Buying land in this location helps us to reverse the impacts of the disastrous 1980’s rural residential subdivision and prevents another house from being built in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest. 

The property provides habitat for the Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsonii) which is listed as Endangered in the Queensland Nature Conservation Act 1992. This property shares a boundary with the Daintree National Park / World Heritage Area. Evidence of the Southern Cassowary using the property was confirmed by dung. Cassowaries are regularly sighted in the adjoining Daintree National Park and on nearby properties.

Please, make your tax-deductible donation now to help purchase and protect Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest. 

Each $4.00 you donate will purchase and protect one square metre of the Lowland Daintree Rainforest. When you make a donation of $20 you will save five square metres, a donation of $40 will save ten square metres, a donation of $100 will save 25 square metres and $400 will save 100 square metres of Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest. 

Cassowary in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest

Endangered Ecological Community

The Daintree Lowland Rainforest itself has now been identified as part of an Endangered Ecological Community. In November 2021 the Australian Government listed the lowland tropical rainforest of the Wet Tropics ecological community in the Endangered Category under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. The listing is effective as of Friday 26 November 2021 and includes the Wet Tropics of North Queensland, from near Ingham (just south of the Cardwell Range) in the south to north around Cape Tribulation. While now listed as Endangered the Daintree Lowland Rainforest is still not fully protected. The freehold properties in the Daintree lowland remain at risk from rural residential development. 

Please, make your tax-deductible donation now to help purchase and protect Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest. 

Each $4.00 you donate will purchase and protect one square metre of the Lowland Daintree Rainforest. When you make a donation of $20 you will save five square metres, a donation of $40 will save ten square metres, a donation of $100 will save 25 square metres and $400 will save 100 square metres of Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest. 

Black Palms and Fan Palms on Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive

We’ve taken many photographs of Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive at Forest Creek which you can see here.

Thanks for everything you do to help Save the Daintree Rainforest.

BACKGROUND 

In 1982 the Queensland government approved a 1,136-lot rural residential subdivision in the Daintree. This resulted in two-thirds of the Daintree Lowland Rainforest being excluded from protection in the Daintree National Park and Wet Tropics World Heritage Area that was declared in 1988. Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive is one of these properties.

The Daintree Lowland Rainforest is one of the oldest rainforests on Earth and provides a refuge for wildlife and ancient flowering plants. It holds exceptionally high biodiversity and conservation value and is the largest continuous area of tropical rainforest remaining in Australia. With almost 200 undeveloped properties remaining in private ownership, the future of the Daintree is yet to be determined. Will it be increased development and urbanisation, or will it be the winding back of the disastrous subdivision to save the Daintree. 

Please, make your tax-deductible donation now to help purchase and protect Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest. 

Each $4.00 you donate will purchase and protect one square metre of the Lowland Daintree Rainforest. When you make a donation of $20 you will save five square metres, a donation of $40 will save ten square metres, a donation of $100 will save 25 square metres and $400 will save 100 square metres of Lot 6 Thornton Peak Drive in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest. 

Lot 6 comprises a Sclerophyll open woodland and a Rainforest habitat.