Native orchids and a view.
Kahlphalim Rock on Lambs Range in the Wet Tropics.

📷 Lucy Friend

#orchids #wettropics

Creating safer, connected habitat for the endangered Southern Cassowary in the Wet Tropics...
shorturl.at/klpjN

@timesofindianews.bsky.social #endangered #cassowary #threatenedspecies #wettropics

"We risk losing species found nowhere else on Earth. We need to protect and restore critical habitat, improve riparian vegetation management, control invasive species, and introduce targeted translocation and captive breeding programs for the most threatened species."

#fish #threatened #wettropics

Rambutans, mangosteens, black sapotes... The tropical fruits, grown in the Wet Tropics, that are expected to become mainstream:
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

#rambutan #mangosteen #blacksapote #exoticfruits #wettropics #tropicalfruit

Another great reason to look after the critically endangered Mabi Forest that's only found in the Wet Tropics...

#mabiforest #stickinsect #wettropics #rainforest

When your wings are covered in pollen and stamen… we know you are super pollinators of our rainforests.
We see many endangered Spectacled Flying-foxes with sticky pollen wings when we catch, tag and release them.

tinyurl.com/36a9e78b

#flyingfox #endangered #threatenedspecies #bats #wettropics

Expert consensus helped identify priority threats for 22 species of freshwater fish in the #WetTropics

The most severe #threats were:
- #InvasiveSpecies
- #climate-driven changes to temperature and hydrology
- habitat and water quality degradation &
- hybridisation with translocated native fishes

Nature-based solutions - from pile fields to reprofiling - are being used restore the iconic Daintree River system, damaged in floods after Cyclone Jasper.

terrain.org.au/daintreerest...

#daintree #wettropics