Tony Parkes, the banker who replanted a rainforest

Mongabay
Jun 14, 2026, 11:30 am108 ptsTrending
On the far north coast of New South Wales, the old rainforest had mostly disappeared. The Big Scrub once covered about 75,000 hectares of rich basalt country, a lowland subtropical forest of figs, vines, palms and fruit doves. By the time modern conservationists took stock of it, little more than one percent…

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