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Why should the Daintree Rainforest be protected?
Thus the Daintree will continue to host and nurture biodiversity, mitigate climate change and provide important resources to study and learn from, including nature’s systems, treatments and cures for humans. Perhaps the best reason to protect the Daintree is simply to stop its destruction!
What is the human impact on the Daintree Rainforest?
Farming affects the Daintree Rainforest because farmers burn the rainforest in order to clear land for more farming. Development is affecting the Daintree Rainforest because people are destroying the rainforest to build houses, roads and infrastructure.
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.
How is the Daintree Rainforest changing?
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.
How is the Daintree changing?
Climate change: Climate change is becoming a major concern to the biodiversity of the Daintree Rainforest. Global warming could decrease the habitat of many endemic vertebrate species which live in the cooler upland and montane rainforests, leaving only isolated pockets of rainforest for them to live in.
Why is the Daintree Rainforest a World Heritage Site?
It is also the only place where two world heritage listed sights stand side by side; where the rainforest meets the reef. The Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rainforest live together peacefully and the wildlife flourishes between the two.
How big is the Daintree Important Bird Area?
Daintree Important Bird Area. The Daintree Important Bird Area (IBA) is a 2656 km 2 tract of land that largely coincides with the northernmost part of the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site. It encompasses, or overlaps, the Black Mountain, Cedar Bay, Daintree, Mount Windsor and Mowbray National Parks.
Why is Cape Tribulation important to the Daintree Rainforest?
The Cape Tribulation is a coastal area within the National park and is bursting with unspoiled beaches with the beautiful reefs. It is a tropical heaven, untouched by urban development. The only way you can see this spectacular site is by passing through the rainforest, which acts as a protective border from the modern world.
How many species of insects are in the Daintree Rainforest?
There are also over 12,000 species of insects in the rainforest. All of this diversity is contained within an area that takes up 0.2% of the landmass of Australia. Part of the forest is protected by the Daintree National Park and drained by the Daintree River.