NEW DEVELOPMENT THREAT TO THE DAINTREE RAINFOREST

 FNQ environmental activist body, the Douglas Shire Sustainability Group (DSSG), has raised community concerns about a major development project currently underway on the Daintree Coast. 

The Daintree Coast is once again under threat: the threat of commercialisation and over-development resulting from the construction of a power grid. 

The Daintree rainforest is one of the world’s rarest and most irreplaceable ecosystems, often described as ‘the jewel in the crown’ of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area of Far North Queensland. An international study has rated the Daintree the second most critical and irreplaceable of all World Heritage Areas.