Austrop focuses on conservation and sustainable management of the Daintree lowland ecosystems, research and education. Volunteers help at the Cape Tribulation Tropical Research Station, at the Bat House and with community conservation activities.

PMB 5
Cape Tribulation Qld 4873

CAFNEC provides a regional forum and central support facility for environmental organisations and campaigners.

Volunteers are welcome!

www.cafnec.org.au

C4 is a voluntary organisation which staffs a visitor centre seven days a week, offers Heritage tours to Mission Beach visitors and undertakes extensive tree planting projects.

Local councils consult C4 on local development applications and issues.

Mission Beach Wildcare, a C4 working group looks after orphaned or injured native wildlife and has a 24 hour phone on 40687272.

c4@qldnet.com.au

Working in partnership with other community and government organisations, CVA offers a wide variety of volunteer conservation experiences. Teams are regularly organised to undertake projects, sometimes in remote localities.

PO Box 7745 Cairns Qld 4870

The group aims to increase the local profile of the cassowary through monitoring, public awareness and encouraging the government to adopt cassowary management strategies. Members are actively involved in rehabilitating degraded land and the group encourages landowners to plant native species through community education projects such as the annual Daintree Cassowary Care Week

This community legal centre promotes environmental protections and conservation. Staff provide a legal service and representation in public interest environmental law matters and strategic test cases, prepare submissions on environmental law and policy reform proposals and contribute to community education on environmental law issues.

Far North Queensland Wildlife Rescue (Inc.) is a group of volunteers who are dedicated to the preservation of the many species of wildlife found in Tropical North Queensland. Their mission is to be a network of professional carers committed to rehabilitating wildlife for release and the education of  people about the value of native fauna and its habitat.

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The Frog Decline Reversal (FDR) Project is a tax deductible frog conservation organisation. It has a large website featuring unique information about disease threats and ways to help frog populations. The group specialises in rescue and rehabilitation of injured and sick frogs as well as disease surveillance.

Kuranda Conservation is an entirely volunteer organization whose objectives are to assist the community to use land in an ecologically sustainable way and to enhance natural biodiversity through education and demonstration. 

It promotes awareness of the environment required for the preservation of cassowaries including habitat protection and enhancement, and domestic and feral animal control. It participates in research, in particular the CSIRO Cassowary Recovery Plan for the Wet Tropics, to better understand the needs of this unique, umbrella species.

Kuranda EnviroCare is the amalgamation of Kuranda's Environment Association and Landcare Group. It has a membership of over 200.

Current issues include town planning, environmental education, wildlife corridor rehabilitation, wildlife management (especially cassowaries), and domestic animal and feral pig control.

PO Box 494, Kuranda 4881

NQCC operates an education program provides its members with a regular newsletter and campaigns on environmental issues.

www.nqcc.org.au

Rainforest Rescue is a not-for-profit organisation committed to protecting rainforests forever. Our projects re-establish rainforests through planting, maintenance and restoration programs, as well as protecting high conservation value rainforest and preserving its biodiversity. To date, Rainforest Rescue has purchased and protected 12 properties in the Daintree and replanted thousands of trees in the Daintree to provide habitat for the endangered cassowary and 120 other threatened species found their.

Sea Turtle Foundation works to protect turtles and address threats to them. We achieve our aim through education, monitoring, research support and advocacy.

www.seaturtlefoundation.org

These enthusiastic frog fanciers promote conservation and public awareness by producing an informative newsletter, holding a yearly Frog Festival, arranging specialist talks at meetings and promoting the building of frog ponds and frog friendly gardens.

The volunteers are based on the AthertonTablelands, and conduct a wide variety of activities in the local national parks.

Public activities includeguided spotlighting and bird walks, hosting public talks on environmental topics and running nature based kids’ activities.

Park based activities include weedingtree planting, cleaning up rubbish and assisting with research on flora and fauna.

83 Main St
Atherton Qld 4887

Tolga Bat Rescue and Research works for conservation of bats and their habitat as well as running the Tolga Bat Hospital. Hundreds of flying foxes, mostly spectacled flying foxes are rescued each year.

PO Box 685
Atherton Qld 4883

Treeforce's motto is to plant the right tree, at the right place, at the right time. Recent plantings have taken place at Aeroglen, along Freshwater Creek, and at the Kamerunga Environmental Park.

The TKMG was formed in 1997 in response to the heightened awareness of the destruction of tree kangaroo habitat and the apparent lack of knowledge about Australia's largest arboreal mammal. The group is also interested in other FNQ mammals under pressure including the Yellow-bellied Glider, Tropical Bettong, Spotted-tail Quoll and Musky Rat-kanagaroo and the impact of introduced animals. The group is currently working on three Natural Heritage Trust funded projects concerning tree-kangaroos and rainforest remanants, Yellow-bellied Gliders and their wet sclerophyll habitat, and Spotted-tailed Quolls.

http://www.tree-kangaroo.net/

TREAT is a community-based tree planting group, currently with in excess of 500 family members, originally established in 1982. TREAT produces a quarterly newsletter for members, manages several projects supported by grants from several sources including the Natural Heritage Trust, works with government agencies, schools and landowners and holds monthly field days and regular tree planting sessions.

PO Box 1119
Atherton 4883

Magazine: Wildlife Australia Annual Subscription $33.00 p.a.

Townsville WPSQ is part of a network of branches of one of the state's oldest environmental groups. Townsville branch has an education program with public meetings, monthly field trips and a monthly newsletter. Members are also active campaigners with a current focus conservation issues.

Formed originally in 1972, this branch was the first FNQ wildlife group established in the Cairns area. The group expects its early focus to be on habitat preservation, crocodiles, flying-fox counts, cassowaries and other endangered species, marine species and other issues on the Atherton Tablelands and coastal areas from Cairns northwards. New volunteers and members are welcomed.