Daintree region is home to the Kuku Yalanji aboriginal people this area was also shared by Europeans arriving in 1870s as gold was discovered on the Hodgkinson River in 1876 the rush was on to find a port for its export.
The Daintree rainforest is the oldest continuous living tropical rainforest in the world – over a hundred million years old – and is the home to a large range of plant and animal species that are rare or threatened.
It is one of Australia’s largest rainforest wilderness areas and, with the exception of roads and limited freehold properties, has remained largely untouched by modern development. Linospadix minor, is locally common in the lowland rainforests of the Daintree area. Conifers such as Podocarpaceae (Podocarpus and Prumnopitys) and Araucariaceae (Agathis and Araucaria) are relatively widespread, as are cycads (Bowenia and Lepidozamia), but rarely are these gymnosperms a significant component of the vegetation.
30% of all frog, marsupial and reptile species in Australia live here, alongside 65% of bats and butterflies species.
Daintree rainforest in Australia
