After two highly successful seven-year funding
periods, the Rainforest CRC wound up operations on 30 June 2006.
Several new developments in 2005/2006 will ensure that the research
and intellectual property of the Rainforest CRC will continue into
the future.
The Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical
Rainforest Ecology and Management (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.
The Rainforest CRC is a research and education partnership,
bringing together a range of experts in an exciting portfolio
covering the following key areas of research:
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Environmental planning and management in rainforest regions;
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Evaluating ecosystem goods and services in a dynamic
landscape;
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Rainforest visitation, business, interpretation and
presentation;
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Managing and monitoring impacts arising from rainforest
access;
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Rehabilitation and restoration, including riparian;
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Conservation principles and management; and
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Aboriginal and collaborative management.
