Action: Purchase and protect Lot 463 Black Bean Road (RP742053) in the Daintree Lowland Rainforest to create the Black Bean Rainforest Refuge
Location: Cow Bay, Far North Queensland
Remnant rainforest to be protected as refuge: 1.4 hectares (14,000 sqm)
Vegetation type: Tropical rainforest (complex mesophyll vine forest) with two regional ecosystems defined by topography. Regional Ecosystem 7.11.1a and Regional Ecosystem 7.3.10a which is listed as “Of Concern” under the Queensland Vegetation Management Act 1999.
Threatened species: Southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsoni), Wet Tropics double-eyed fig-parrot (Cyclopsitta diophthalma macleayana), spectacled flying-fox (Pteropus conspicillatus), China camp laurel (Beilschmiedia castrisinensis), Gray’s walnut (Endiandra grayi), Noah’s walnut (Endiandra microneura), climbing pandanus (Freycinetia percostata), Queensland black-stem tassel-fern (Phlegmariurus ledermannii).
Endangered ecological community: Lowland tropical rainforest of the Wet Tropics ecological community is listed as endangered under the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
Fundraising target: $140,000