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The Daintree is one of the best biologically diverse rainforests in the world. Home to a huge percentage of the entire country's animal population. This includes 30% of Australia's frog population, 65% of butterfly and bats and around 12,000 different insect species. As well as being diverse, the animals are unique.
- Why should we save the Daintree Rainforest?
- Why do humans use the Daintree Rainforest?
- What is the value of the Daintree Rainforest?
- How is the Daintree Rainforest changing?
- How has the Daintree Rainforest changed over time?
- What are some uses of the Daintree Rainforest?
- What has happened to the Daintree Rainforest because of human presence?
- Why is the Daintree Rainforest a World Heritage Site?
- How does the Daintree Rainforest depend on the southern cassowary?
- How did the Daintree Rainforest form?
- How is the Daintree being protected?
- Is the Daintree rainforest natural or human?
- How much pollution is in the Daintree Rainforest?
- What are the layers of the Daintree Rainforest and what are their significance?
- What is the history of the Daintree Rainforest?
Why should we save the Daintree Rainforest?
As the Daintree is a sub-tropical rainforest, it relies on the environment to maintain its tropical heat and continuous rainfall to survive. With an increase in temperature and a decline in rainfall, devastating droughts will ensure, resulting in many of the wildlife to die out.
Why do humans use the Daintree Rainforest?
Farming affects the Daintree Rainforest because farmers burn the rainforest in order to clear land for more farming. ... Tourism is a problem because as interest in the Daintree Rainforest grows, more buses and transport is needed to keep up with demand and that increases the carbon dioxide and impacts on climate change.
What is the value of the Daintree Rainforest?
The Economic Value (consumers' surplus) associated with protection of the area in 1999 was estimated to be approximately $4.4 million. The Total Economic Value of tourism and recreation in the Daintree is therefore stated to be in the order of $400 million.
How is the Daintree Rainforest changing?
The habitat of the Daintree Rainforest has gone through years of fragmentation caused by urban development, from residential development to clearing for farms. This stops animals and plants moving about, limiting the variety of the ecosystems and breeding populations in each rainforest section.
How has the Daintree Rainforest changed over time?
During this period of drifting, the landscape changed as global conditions became colder and drier. Rainforests contracted and became drier forests that evolved with the domination of the eucalypts. ... The Daintree is now acknowledged as the longest living, continuously growing rainforest on the planet.
What are some uses of the Daintree Rainforest?
The Kuku Yalanji people thrived for thousands of years in the Daintree Rainforest by hunting and gathering food. The Kuku Yalanji people also took advantage of the range of insects found in the rainforest for medicinal purposes. Some of these insects are also edible and were even considered gastronomic delicacies.
What has happened to the Daintree Rainforest because of human presence?
Due to the impact of humans, the existence of over 120 animal and plant species native to the Daintree Rainforest is now threatened. Deforestation (logging) and development are two of the biggest factors endangering the area.
Why is the Daintree Rainforest a World Heritage Site?
These ancient rainforests are globally significant as they represent the largest remaining area of lowland rainforest in Australia's Wet Tropics, with an area sufficiently large to ensure ongoing evolutionary and ecological processes – an essential requirement for listing as World Heritage by UNESCO.
How does the Daintree Rainforest depend on the southern cassowary?
But even more importantly, the cassowary is a “keystone species” – many other species in the fascinating Daintree Rainforest ecosystem depend on this bird. The cassowary is one of nature's gardeners: it eats the fruit of many trees and other plants, distributing their seeds through the rainforest.
How did the Daintree Rainforest form?
The landscape of Daintree National Park (CYPAL) began to form under the sea about 400 million years ago, when Australia was still part of the great super-continent, Gondwana. Ancient rivers carried sediments to the coast, situated more than 100 km west of its present position.
How is the Daintree being protected?
Rainforest Rescue has been strategically buying back at-risk rainforest properties and restoring degraded rainforest in the Daintree since 1999. Our primary focus is to increase connectivity, preserve biodiversity and protect rainforests forever.
Is the Daintree rainforest natural or human?
The Daintree Rainforest; a natural paradise home to some of the world's most spellbinding wonders and unique wildlife. Nestled in Australia's tropical Queensland region, Daintree stretches thousands of kilometres along the green coastline. It is, in fact, one of the oldest rainforests in the world.
How much pollution is in the Daintree Rainforest?
The Daintree Rainforest covers an area of 1200km2 so that's 107,330,400 tonnes of CO2 being absorbed every year!
What are the layers of the Daintree Rainforest and what are their significance?
Layers of the Daintree Rainforest
The canopy layer is where most of the insects and animals of the entire forest live. The canopy provides protection from predators and lets them be closer to the warmth of the sunlight. The understorey of the rainforest is dark and cool because hardly any sunlight reaches this layer.
What is the history of the Daintree Rainforest?
The Daintree region which incorporates the famous Daintree Rainforest and Daintree River was originally home to the Aboriginal people of the Kuku Yalanji tribe who lived in small kinships of 8-12 in camps scattered along the banks of creeks and rivers.
