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Habitat: Australian Rainforest

Stretching for over 500 kilometres along Tropical North Queensland’s coastline, these rainforests are the oldest continually surviving rainforests on earth and once covered the entire Australian continent.

The rainforests are also home to a diverse range of Australian animals including:

• 36% of Australia's mammals
• 30% of its marsupials including tree kangaroos and possums
• 60% of its butterflies
• 48% of its bird species
• 25% of its frog and reptiles
• 37% of its freshwater fish
• 50% of the country’s bat species.

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Some of the trees found here are more than 3,000 years old. The tallest trees in the forest reach up to 60 metres.



These rainforests of Tropical North Queensland are home to one of the world’s largest flightless birds, the Southern Cassowary, and to Australia’s most primitive kangaroo, the Lumholtz tree kangaroo.