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The Daintree Rainforest contains approximately 3,000 different plant species, from nearly 210 plant families; with over 900 different types of tree, one single hectare could, realistically, contain anywhere from 100 to 150 individual species.
Introduced species also pose a serious threat to many native species. [citation needed] In an effort to preserve the Daintree Rainforest north of the Daintree River it was decided by the Government of Queensland in 1993 to halt the spread of the electricity network north of that point, providing a limit to tourist development. [12]
It is a rainforest species, ... in the Daintree Rainforest in northeast Queensland, Australia. Bowenia spectabilis at Mossman Gorge, Queensland, Australia.
Gymnostoma australianum, commonly known as the Daintree pine or Daintree oak, is a species of small tree which is endemic to a restricted area of the Daintree tropical rainforests region, within the Wet Tropics of north-eastern Queensland, Australia.
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 ...
Palaquium galactoxylum is a rainforest tree growing up to 40 metres (130 ft) high, thus becoming an emegent within the forest ecosystem.It has a very straight cylindrical trunk marked with conspicuous vertical lines of lenticels, usually reaching a diameter of 1 m (3 ft 3 in), [4] but it can grow to 2 m (6 ft 7 in). [5]
The 2,300,000-square-mile wonderland of biodiversity is home to millions of unique species of flora and fauna, nearly a quarter of the world's freshwater, and hundreds of indigenous communities ...
The list of threatened plants of Australia Queensland includes all plant species listed as critically endangered or endangered in Australia under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). [1]