TOH edition: Wednesday, 7 October 2026 · Planet & Nature
A path back to rainforest: Queensland volunteers, community groups and Indigenous rangers grow over 300,000 native plants
Reported by Mongabay
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In Australia’s Wet Tropics, local restoration groups are growing native plants to help turn cleared pasture back into rainforest. A new study highlights the effort behind that work but finds that monitoring often ends too early to establish whether wildlife and mature forest communities are returning.
This community effort shows people can work toward repairing fragmented forests, while sustained monitoring is needed to establish what is recovering and guide what happens next.
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