[1] Located on the North Coast of New South Wales, between what is now the towns of Byron Bay (east) and Lismore (west), the core Big Scrub area consisted of an estimated 900 square kilometres of subtropical rainforest.
Rainforest bushfood were a regular part of the traditional Bundjalung diet, including staples like black bean, Castanospermum australe, which is detoxified before eating.
[2] The Big Scrub was dominated by white booyong (Heritiera trifoliolata) and Australian red cedar (Toona australis).
Later, the Government of New South Wales gave allotments to potential farmers on the basis that they cleared it of rainforest.
These remnants have been subject to ecological restoration projects which involves the removal of invasive non-native weeds.