Wind turbines near protected north Queensland #Rainforests
“The Queensland wind industry is the wild west. There are no rules, these companies can do what they like with very little in the way of legislation to stop them.”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/apr/22/conservationists-rubbish-plan-to-build-a-windfarm-near-protected-north-queensland-rainforests
#Renewables #Biodiversity #WetTropics #WorldHeritage

“All but 4% of the 80,000 hectares of #rainforest on the #AthertonTablelands were razed for the yeoman’s idyll of smiling homesteads, rosy-cheeked children and plump wives, , which only dissipated with the #WorldHeritage listing of the #WetTropics in 1988. The wet tropics cover a minuscule 0.3% of Australia’s landscape but support more species diversity than any other place on the continent. “

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/05/our-fate-rests-on-efforts-like-this-the-family-restoring-precious-rainforest-to-its-former-glory
#Restoration #Conservation #Biodiversity

‘Our fate rests on efforts like this’:
the family restoring precious rainforest to its former glory -

“A rainforest’s #silences are a polyphony of subtle, ceaseless, scintillating noises. A humid wet chaos of activity.

The #scented wind is alive, complex, mouldy and sweet, earthy, varietal: an evolutionary vintage. Distillations of #ancient plants embody the living history of living plants.

Three hundred million years ago – and beyond – a bridge formed between reality and magic, potent with memories that go deep in time, like dreams hardwired into grey matter.”

Extract from ‘Cloud Land – The dramatic story of Australia’s extraordinary rainforest people and country’, by Penny van Oosterzee, published by Allen & Unwin
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/05/our-fate-rests-on-efforts-like-this-the-family-restoring-precious-rainforest-to-its-former-glory

#Rainforest #Trees #Regeneration #LivingHistory #WetTropics #TreePlanting #NativeSpecies #Plants #GrassManagement #Cyclone #Restoration #Australia