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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tasmanian temperate rain forests: Tasmanian West (TWE) Tasmanian temperate rain forests: Victoria Bonaparte (VIB) Kimberley tropical savanna: Victorian Midlands (VIM) Southeast Australia temperate forests: Warren (WAR) Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands: Wet Tropics (WET) Queensland tropical rain forests: Yalgoo (YAL) Southwest Australia savanna
Visiting David Attenborough’s ‘favourite place’ – why you should explore the reefs and rainforests of North Queensland Jonathan Samuels May 10, 2024 at 7:40 AM
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.
About half of the world's tropical rainforests are in the South American countries of Brazil and Peru. Rainforests now cover less than 6% of Earth's land surface. Scientists estimate that more than half of all the world's plant and animal species live in tropical rainforests.
Maps show the areas impacted by storm surge, rainfall levels and more as Helene, once a major hurricane and now a tropical storm, moves inland from Florida's Gulf Coast over Georgia.