After two highly
successful seven-year funding periods, the Cooperative Research
Centre for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management (or
Rainforest CRC) wound up operations on 30 June
2006.
The Centre, originally known as CRC-TREM was
established in 1993 as a joint venture between its partners and the
Commonwealth Government of Australia. Having achieved national and
international recognition during its first phase, the Centre was
successfully refunded in 1999 as the Rainforest
CRC, under a new and expanded partnership of twelve
organisations.
A research and education partnership, the Centre brought
together a range of experts in an exciting portfolio covering the
following key areas of research: