Greater Daintree National Park...

Welcome to the Greater Daintree National Park, the area that is described by Sir David Attenborough as "one of the most magical experiences of my life". There are places, which is instinctively known as being outstanding beyond anything else. Here is that place.

Rich green Tropical Rainforest cascade to the coast, shimmering leaves blend and merge with mangroves, beside the sand and coral of the Great Barrier Reef. This is the Daintree. Where coastal Rainforest meets the sea. Two of Australia's greatest wonders living side by side.

The Greater Daintree Region is home of a delightful variety of animal life: ornamental lizards, massive pythons, loveable and vulnerable frogs, and brightly coloured butterflies. Here there lives as great a variety of mammals as can be found in any part of Australia. While mammals are mostly nocturnal and shy by nature, many of the birds are enjoyably noisy and conspicuous. Yet here too there are well camouflaged feeders like the fruit eating pigeons, and the cryptic ground dwellers like the bush hen and the rails. The Greater Daintree Region is inhabited by at least 74 species of mammals. This is the largest number of mammal species to be found in any region of equal size in Australia.

The Daintree area contains over thirty types of forest and there are thousand of species of plants and animals - many yet to be named, and some, yet to be discovered. Four criteria are used to assess whether an area containing natural heritage should be included on the list of World Heritage Areas.

The Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area is exceptional in that it is only one of twelve natural World Heritage sites world-wide that meet all four criteria. These are, that the site:
1. Be an outstanding example representing the major stages of the earth's evolutionary history.
2. Be an outstanding example representing ongoing geological processes, biological evolution and man's interaction with his natural environment.
3. Contain superlative natural phenomena, formations or features.
4. Contain the most important and significant natural habitats where threatened species of animals or plants of outstanding universal value live.

 

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