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The place behind the forest.
Djabugay Country, a family-run park and the Pamagirri Experience offer several ways into the story of Rainforestation Nature Park.
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Djabugay Country
Rainforestation acknowledges the Djabugay people as the traditional custodians of the Country where its experiences take place. The rainforest around Kuranda has been their home for more than 10,000 years.
Through the Pamagirri guides, the park says, the cultures and stories of other First Nations peoples are represented too.
A family-run park
Charles and Pip Woodward bought an orange orchard on the Kuranda Range in 1974 and opened it as Mountain Grove in 1976, with Army Duck tours. Renamed Rainforestation in 1989, it now covers 100 acres of World Heritage rainforest.
In 2022 the park was named a Global Peace Park by the International Institute for Peace through Tourism.
Culture, shared with care
The Pamagirri Dance Troupe and the Dreamtime Walk began in 1993, and the Pamagirri Aboriginal Experience won gold at the 2019 Queensland Tourism Awards for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.
This history belongs to the place and the people who shaped it. The History page offers a longer introduction, and the timeline gives a short route through selected milestones.
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Sources & further reading
- Rainforestation: About us
- Rainforestation: Pamagirri Aboriginal Experience
- Wikipedia: Kuranda, Queensland
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