A dead pig, some cassowaries and an unholy fight over the Daintree

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Two charities are raising millions to buy up blocks in the towns of the Daintree Rainforest and restore them to their natural state. The locals say there is nothing to ‘save’. The battle is heating up.

The pig was barely flyblown and not yet bloated when a landcare contractor found its carcass propped against the gate of a private property in the Daintree Rainforest on the afternoon of July 25. A clean Winchester bowie knife and a lilac watch lay on the ground nearby.

reveals more than half the properties bought by the charities are already off limits to new development. As the world’s oldest rainforest deals with species extinction, rising temperatures and unprecedented fire risk, the clash is exposing the shortfalls of leaving complex environmental challenges to the private sector.

Teacher Nichola Cox says enrolments at the local school have dropped from 90 to less than 20 in the past decade.These events have become an increasingly popular and necessary community event to support the local school, which has seen student enrolments plummet.Teacher Nichola Cox, who is MC’ing, says her workload has dropped from full-time to three days this year due to lack of funds. “It’s very sad,” says Cox. “Is it buybacks? Is it Airbnb? Probably all of the above.

“National parks don’t want any bit of forest,” she says. “There’s the dream of what you want to achieve, and the reality of what you can achieve.” Halfcut partnered with a harbourside cocktail bar in June to create Daintree Sydney in Circular Quay, which donates half its proceeds towards rewilding the world’s rainforests. The venture is run from the sandstone basement of a colonial-era building, with a repurposed timber bar top, upcycled wicker shelves and QR codes on every table for those who wish to donate. The menu features gumnut negroni, quandong daiquiri and macadamia colada.

Rainforest 4’s Davies said the McGills experience was “regrettable”, but added, “I haven’t heard from them personally”. Local Connie Pinson holds a photo of the same road from 1970s to illustrate the impact of tree planting by the local community. This is not an image being shared by the charities.At least four of the properties purchased by Rainforest 4 have been transferred to the Jabalbina Aboriginal Corporation while they’re being assessed by the National Park.

Another elder Harold Tayley, known as “Mooks”, says the rainforest is sacred and spiritual and he wants to see it protected, but he also wants more traditional owners living across the river, and transferring land to national park makes this impossible.

 

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