The Big Scrub Rainforest: A Journey Through Time

In the last 40 years of the nineteenth century, more than 99% of the Big Scrub was cleared and burnt for farming and the Bundjalung people were displaced as well as many species of the rainforest wildlife destroyed.   Once this was the largest expanse of subtropical rainforest in Australia covering about 75,000 hectares between Lismore, Ballina, Byron Bay and Mullumbimby.  Today only about 1% or less than 1,0000 hectares of scattered rainforest fragments remain.  The Big Scrub Rainforest: A Journey Through Time is a stunning publication complete with beautiful rainforest photography and drawings, sharing insights of the Big Scrub Rainforest, its past, present and conservation for the future. This publication showcases contributions from eminent conservationists, ecologists, artists and photographers to celebrate our rainforests and their threatened species.  It shares the indigenous stories of the region and explores the vales of the magnificent rainforest, the places, their meanings and restoration projects saving rainforests for future generations.

Features contributions from Bob Brown, Dr. Tony Parkes and Martin Brook.