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  Acknowledgements

  The author has a great many people to thank for the help, support, encouragement and advice she has been given over the twelve years since she encountered the forest at Natural Bridge. Some of their names might not appear in the list that follows, but this doesn’t mean that she has forgotten them, but rather that she has never known their surnames.

  She thanks first of all, the redoubtable CCRRS workforce, especially Garry Mills, Will Miller, Simon Valadares, Luke and Rachael Morphett, Michelle and Barry Walsh, Ben Yaun and Mitchell Philp, also Bronwen Mark and Andrew Campbell; Ann Polis, and her daughter Mary Polis, for being so ready to give whatever help and support they could, Mary particularly for legal advice which Friends of Gondwana Rainforest could not have afforded otherwise; Professor Paul McHugh and Andrew Hardwick for coming on board as trustees at what turned out to be a very difficult time, and for weathering the storm of refashioning the charity; Nick Diss FCA of Reardon and Co. and Robert Meakin PhD of Stone King LLP for sorting out the muddle; S
tephen Bligh and Andrew Swarbrick for listening to her anguished queries and steering her towards a solution; Eddie Stern of C. Hoare and Co. and Lucy Zheng of National Australia Bank for their prudent oversight; Brian Bayne and Tim Green for offering to act as directors of Djurebil Pty Ltd; Lynne and Duncan Turpie for helping her to find Brian and Tim; Lui Weber and Rob Price both for their astonishing depth of knowledge of the CCRRS rainforest and their willingness to share it; Christopher Spain BSc (Hons), now principal ecologist at Biodiversity Assessment and Management, for his work on the Cave Creek macadamias, and Dr Conrad Hoskin of James Cook University, for showing her some of the rarer fauna. Her debt to David Jinks should be obvious and she is very aware of the interest taken in the project by Dr Bill McDonald, and the friendliness of such rainforest heroes as Nan and Hugh Nicholson and Gwen Harden; for sharing expertise and supplying CCRRS with plants, Charlie and Cathy Booth at Bush Nuts Native Nursery, Tallebudgera Valley, Kris and Kim Kupsch of Ooray Orchards, Burringbar, and Lance, Sally and Matt Fitzgerald and Dave Woodlee at Burringbar Rainforest Nursery; for advice and assistance in selection of potting media, Tony Mullan and everyone at Green Fingers.

  The author’s thanks also go to the staff of the many libraries, archives and museums where she has foraged for information about the Numinbah Valley, its flora and fauna, and its human history. These include the National Library of Australia, the State Library of New South Wales, the Queensland State Archives, the Cambridge University Library, the Library of the University of Queensland, the National Archives (UK), the British Library, the Gold Coast City Library, the Tweed Heads Historical Society, the Richmond-Tweed Regional Library, Lismore, the Tweed River Historical Society, Murwillumbah, Murwillumbah Historical Society Inc., and in particular the Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies for expert help sensitively and discreetly given. Other archivists and scholars have given her help anonymously through websites and databases; her debt to them is obvious. Every day she has occasion to bless the International Plant Name Index, the Australian Plant Name Index, The Plant List, Tropicos and Botanicus. She also thanks Dr Mark Nesbitt of the Economic Botany Collection at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, for help generously given on the occasion of her visit to the collection. Special thanks go to Brian and Margaret Palmer who introduced her to the conservation work going on in Northland NZ, and to John and Catherine Hawley of Maranui Conservation Ltd who took the time and trouble to familiarise her with the Gondwanan rainforest of the Brynderwyns-Bream Tail area.