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The Daintree Rainforest Australia is a tropical rainforest north of
Mossman, on the coast, north of Cairns in tropical far north of
Queensland Australia. At around 1200 square kilometres the Daintree is
the largest continuous area of tropical rainforest on the Australian
mainland. Named after Richard Daintree, part of the forest is protected
by the Daintree National Park and drained by the Daintree River.
The Daintree Rainforest contains 30% of frog, marsupial and reptile
species in Australia, and 65% of Australia's bat and butterfly species.
18% of bird species in Australia can be found in this area. There are
also over 12000 species of insects. All of this diversity is contained
within an area that takes up 0.2% of the landmass of Australia. |
The Daintree is an
excellent example of the major stages in the Earth's
evolutionary history, an example of significant ongoing
ecological and biological processes. It contains important
and significant habitats for conservation of biological
diversity.
The Daintree Rainforest in Australia is over one hundred and
thirty-five million years old – the oldest in the world.
Approximately 430 species of birds live among the trees. |
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 The Daintree Rainforest is
located 111 kilometres north of Cairns Australia as is
loosely defined as the area between the Mossman Gorge and
the Bloomfield River. The name is believed to have come
about as a result of conservationists, who during the
building of the Bloomfield Road in the early 1980s proposed
the 'Greater Daintree National Park' which would have
surround all of the Daintree forest in the area, including
the Daintree and Cape Tribulation National Parks. Recent
extensions to the Daintree National Park have realised this.
The area referred to as "The
Daintree" includes the Greater Daintree National Park, some
areas of State Forest, and some privately owned land,
including a residential community of more than 500 people.
Some of the privately owned land north of the Alexandra
Range was "bought back" under a Government scheme in recent
years. North of the Daintree River can be seen spectacular
examples of tropical rainforest coming right down to the
sea. The roads north of the Daintree River wind through
spectacular areas of lush forest, and have been designed to
minimize impacts on the Rainforest.
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