Treeforce Association Inc. is a not-for-profit community tree planting group in Cairns. It was incorporated and officially launched in April 1992. Our mission is to plant and maintain native trees to achieve outcomes that include protecting the visual quality of the Cairns environment, protecting and stabilising critical areas like hill slopes and river banks, creating wildlife corridors between existing patches of rainforest, and creating public awareness about the importance of planting native trees.

To create and support sustainable forest ecosystems in the Cairns region.

• Planting “The right tree for the Cairns environment” (Treeforce!)
• Engaging, supporting and educating the community, whilst promoting custodianship of the natural environment.
• Collaborating and networking with individuals and organisations who have similar goals.
• Contributing efforts to reduce the impact of climate change and environmental degradation.
• Acknowledging and paying respect the traditional owner groups of the country on which we work.

• Improve the connectivity of key riparian and biodiversity corridors
• Contribute to mitigating the impact of climate change
• Rehabilitate degraded ecosystems
• Increase our community’s participation in nature-based learning and restoration activities
• Increase community awareness of nature and understanding of the importance of improving it
• Share in the positive community well-being benefits of helping our natural environment