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Premium Content Subscriber only The Australian Macadamia Society is calling on Mackay green thumbs to help one of the countries most popular nut trees that is listed as threatened. Three species of the macadamia nuts – integrifolia, ternifolia and tetraphylla – are on the Red List of Threatened Species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Australian Macadamia Society CEO Jolyon Burnett said Mackay residents and growers could help by planting some of the trees in their ga...

Premium Content Subscriber only THREE species of native macadamia nuts are now on the Global Threatened Species Red List, prompting calls for government action from industry groups. The macadamia industry is worth $850 million in retail value to the nation’s economy through its 800 plus growers. Native to Queensland, both the macadamia integrifolia and macadamia ternifolia, plus the northern NSW native macadamia tetraphylla, are all now on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’...

Premium Content Subscriber only A LISMORE-BASED environmental organisation is calling for action after three species of macadamias were listed as vulnerable or threatened. The Macadamia Conservation Trust says the Federal Government should urgently adopt a recovery plan for the survival of three wild macadamias ‒ the popular Macadamia integrifolia, native to southeast Queensland, M. ternifolia, native to Queensland, and M. tetraphylla, from northern NSW. All three nut species were put on t...