Rainforest Reserves Australia

About us

Rainforest Reserves Australia is based at the Tablelands Cassowary Rehabilitation Facility on the Atherton Tablelands, Far North Queensland.

Here we:

  • operate the Tablelands Cassowary Rehabilitation Facility, working in partnership with the Department of Environment and Science to care for injured and orphaned Cassowaries.

  • re-vegetate the Toohey’s Creek wildlife corridor in Lake Barrine.

  • work with volunteers to operate a large nursery for native trees to be grown from seed and planted back into the Tablelands Cassowary Rehabilitation Facility.

  • promote and campaign to protect Australia’s wilderness and wildlife from industrial development.

  • campaign to Keep Chalumbin Wild and stop a large-scale wind development from being placed on remnant forest near Ravenshoe, Far North Queensland.

  • raise funds for rainforest buy-back groups.

  • raise funds for the Far North Queensland-based Magnificent Broodfrog Action Group.

  • facilitate community tree-planting days at operate the Tablelands Cassowary Rehabilitation Facility.

  • facilitated World Cassowary Day in 2017.

 

The Tablelands Cassowary Rehabilitation Facility

Here at the Tablelands Cassowary Rehabilitation Facility, we provide a sanctuary for injured or orphaned Cassowaries. This is the first privately-operated Cassowary facility in the world of it’s kind.

In this secure and heavily forested area, cassowaries are free to roam and hide, safe from feral predators. Once rehabilitated and mature enough to survive on their own, Cassowaries are released back into the wilderness of Far North Queensland.

Kelvin the Cassowary being released back into the wild. June 2021

What We’ve Achieved

  • Worked alongside the local community to stop the Chalumbin/ Wooroora station wind development from proceeding in Far North Queensland (project was withdrawn in 2024). The wind development posed unacceptable impacts to critical habitat home to threatened species.

  • Rehabilitated and released numerous Cassowaries back into the wilderness of Far North Queensland.

  • We previously operated the Garners Beach Cassowary Facility.

  • We’re supporting the Keep Chalumbin Wild campaign to oppose the proposed Chalumbin Wind Development, Ravenshoe, Far North Queensland. We’ve hosted three public meetings to inform the community about the ecological impacts of the proposed wind farm, raising awareness and advocating for conservation.

  • We have planted over 120,000 trees to expand the Toohey’s Creek wildlife corridor and Barrine Park Nature Refuge.

  • Hosted World Cassowary Day, founded by Paul Webster, in 2017 to raise awareness about the plight of this endangered bird.