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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 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 this area including the threatened cassowary .
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
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.
Daintree Rainforest stretches 60 miles before giving way to golden beaches and the Great Barrier Reef. Visible from space, it’s 1,400 miles long and made up of 2,900 individual reefs and 900 ...
Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea: Sulawesi lowland rain forests: Indonesia: Sulawesi montane rain forests: Indonesia: Trobriand Islands rain forests: Papua New Guinea: Vanuatu rain forests: Solomon Islands, Vanuatu: Vogelkop montane rain forests: Indonesia: Vogelkop–Aru lowland rain forests: Indonesia ...
The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia is a serial property comprising the major remaining areas of rainforest in southeast Queensland and northeast New South Wales. It represents outstanding examples of major stages of the Earth’s evolutionary history, ongoing geological and biological processes, and exceptional biological diversity.