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:

• Environmental planning and management in rainforest regions;

• Evaluating ecosystem goods and services in a dynamic landscape;

• Rainforest visitation, business, interpretation and presentation;

• Managing and monitoring impacts arising from rainforest access;

• Rehabilitation and restoration, including riparian;

• Conservation principles and management; and

• Aboriginal and collaborative management.