"This walkway is significant as it's one of the first public rainforest tree plantings in Kuranda by the Kuranda Landcare group and community under the Wet Tropics Tree Planting scheme, planted back in 1993" said current Kuranda Envirocare President Cathy Retter.

"Primarily it will be valuable as a self-teach walkway and is also accessible by tourists. A good variety of species and reasonable maturity of the trees makes them ideal to display rainforest tree characteristics" she said.

An initial 50 trees have been identified and labelled.

Mr Wettenhall said "A further project is intended to tidy the walkway area environs, plant low growing species under powerlines and increase the labels to over 100 species. Where specific tree species are useful to local Djabugay people, language names have been included".

Guide sheets for the walkway, with versions for training and for tourist interest, will be available from www.envirocare.org.au after the launch, at the Kuranda Information Centre and the Kuranda Resort and Spa.

Funding has been made available by terrain NRM Ltd and Mission Australia with support from Greencorp and QITE Farm Force initiatives