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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 ...
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
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 ...
Queensland tropical rain forests; R. Rainforests and vine thickets This page was last edited on 12 September 2019, at 10:16 (UTC). ...
Located on the northeastern coast of Queensland, the Daintree, the largest rainforest in the country/continent, is a leafy oasis where rare animals roam and plant species not found anywhere else ...
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.
Deforestation increased 4% worldwide in 2022, according to an October report showing countries went further off track from pledges made at the 2021 U.N. climate talks to halt and reverse loss and ...