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  2. Queensland tropical rain forests - Wikipedia

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    The Queensland tropical rain forests ecoregion (WWF ID: AA0117) covers a portion of the coast of Queensland in northeastern Australia and belongs to the Australasian realm. The forest contains the world's best living record of the major stages in the evolutionary history of the world's land plants, including most of the world's relict species ...

  3. Wet Tropics of Queensland - Wikipedia

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    On 9 November 2012, the Australian Government also acknowledged the Indigenous heritage of the area as being nationally significant. The Aboriginal Rainforest People of the Wet Tropics of Queensland have lived continuously in the rainforest environment for at least 5000 years, and this is the only place in Australia where Aboriginal people have permanently inhabited a tropical rainforest ...

  4. Forests of Australia - Wikipedia

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    Tropical rainforest near Tropical North Queensland. At around 1200 square kilometres the Wet Tropics Rainforest is a part of Australia 's largest contiguous area of rainforest. Contains 30% of frog , marsupial and reptile species in Australia, and 65% of Australia's bat and butterfly species. 20% of bird species in the country can be found in ...

  5. List of ecoregions in Australia - Wikipedia

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    The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) identified 825 terrestrial ecoregions that cover the Earth's land surface, 40 of which cover Australia and its dependent islands. The WWF ecoregions are classified by biome type ( tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests , temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands , tundra , etc.), and into one ...

  6. The 10 Most Beautiful Forests Around the World to Add ... - AOL

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    The largest tropical rainforest, the Amazon Rainforest covers much of northwestern Brazil and stretches into other South American countries. ... Located on the northeastern coast of Queensland ...

  7. He has described tropical North Queensland as his favourite place in the world. “It has, for a naturalist, everything” he says. “An amazing rainforest, which is quite unlike any other ...

  8. Daintree Rainforest - Wikipedia

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    At around 1,200 square kilometres (460 sq mi), [1] the Daintree is a part of the largest contiguous area of tropical rainforest in Australia, known as the Wet Tropics of Queensland. The region, along with a select number of other rainforest areas on the Australian east coast, collectively form some of the oldest extant rainforest communities in ...

  9. Tully Training Area - Wikipedia

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    Tully Training Area is approximately 13,300 hectares (33,000 acres). It is 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) north-west of Tully. [1]The Tully Military Training Area (TTA) is part of the Wet Tropics biogeographic region, which runs along the coast from the Cedar Bay/Daintree region in the north to just short of Townsville in the south, and includes the elevated Atherton plateau.