In northern New South Wales, ReForest Now is rebuilding the Big Scrub, a subtropical rainforest that has lost more than 99% of its original area. Less than 1% survives, scattered across tiny remnant patches in a sea of cleared farmland. Every tree your customers plant helps reconnect them, and many of the species going into the ground are themselves highly endangered.
Mobilises local teams and volunteers for hands-on rainforest restoration.
Plants 190+ subtropical rainforest species, many highly endangered, to reconnect remnant forest.
Runs one of Australia's largest rainforest nurseries, growing species no commercial grower stocks.
Bring back the Big Scrub.
The Big Scrub once covered about 75,000 hectares between Lismore and Byron Bay, the largest stretch of subtropical lowland rainforest in Australia. Settlers cleared almost all of it within decades. ReForest Now, founded in 2018, plants rainforest back into cleared land, weeds invasive species out of the surviving remnants, and grows rare trees from seed in its own nursery. In November 2025 they planted their millionth tree.
What is happening at ReForest Now right now, summarised by us, with links to the partner's sources.
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Step inside the Big Scrub restoration in this video from the field.
Take urgent action to combat climate change by restoring carbon-rich rainforest.
Protect and restore terrestrial ecosystems and halt the loss of biodiversity in a critically endangered habitat.
The trees go into the ground in northern New South Wales, between Lismore and Byron Bay, where ReForest Now is reconnecting the last surviving patches of the Big Scrub rainforest.
150+ native tree species across 5 planting sites
