Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, Tropical North Queensland, Queensland
Experience the majestic forests, stunning beaches and unique wildlife of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, covering almost 900,000 hectares and extending from Townsville to Cooktown.
Wet Tropics World Heritage
Discover North Queensland through the amazing diversity offered by the wet tropics land. It is classified as World Heritage
The Wet Tropics of Queensland | Queensland's 5 World Heritage Sites
The Wet Tropics of Queensland are THE oldest rainforests in the world. They are thought to be 6 to 10 times older than the oldest parts of the Amazon. How special that we can still walk amongst the same eco-system that stood 150 million years ago! As one of the five world heritage sites in Queensland, the Wet Tropics can be accessed from Townsville, Cairns, Port Douglas and Cooktown.
A few interesting facts about the wet tropics:
• Provides habitat for 3,000 plant species, 113 reptile species, and 51 amphibian species.
• One-third of Australia’s 315 mammal species live in the Wet Tropics – 13 of which are found nowhere else in the world.
• Home to nearly half of Australia’s bird species - 307 different species.
• The area stretches along the north-east coast of Queensland for 450 km, from just south of Cooktown to just north of Townsville.
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This cinematic journey takes you through the region commonly known as The Wet Tropics of Queensland. The Wet Tropics extend from Townsville to Cooktown and are characterized by rugged terrain with rainforests, coastal ranges, tablelands, wetlands, and escarpment.
The World Heritage area includes Australia’s highest Waterfall , Wallaman Falls and the Daintree Rainforest.
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Wet Tropics of Queensland (UNESCO/NHK)
This area, which stretches along the north-east coast of Australia for some 450 km, is made up largely of tropical rainforests. This biotope offers a particularly extensive and varied array of plants, as well as marsupials and singing birds, along with other rare and endangered animals and plant species.
Source: UNESCO TV / © NHK Nippon Hoso Kyokai
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Celebrating 25 years of the listing of the Wet Tropics World Heritage
Explore the significance of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, the drama of listing and future challenges in this short film.
Tracking timelapse over Nandroya Falls, Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, North Queensland, Australia
Tracking timelapse over Nandroya Falls, Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, North Queensland, Australia. 2017.
©Jurgen Freund/naturepl.com
World Heritage Wet Tropics: Restoring Communities
The Wet Tropics of North Queensland is a unique part of the world and in 1988 received World Heritage listing in recognition of this. Over the recent history of the region, large areas of the forests have been cleared for settlement, farming and timber industries.
This is the story of how individuals and communities work together to protect the forests, so that their unique natural values are preserved for future generations.
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Wet Tropics - Living museum
Mike Ahern AO, former Premier of Queensland, and Aila Keto, President of the Australian Rainforest Conservation Society, discuss the events leading up to the World Heritage listing of Queensland's Wet Tropics, and how the listing changed relationships between conservationists and the forestry industry across the state.
Celebrating 30 years of World Heritage in the Wet Tropics - part 1
Celebrating 30 years of World Heritage in the Wet Tropics.
Wet Tropics - Natural conflict
Mike Ahern AO, former Premier of Queensland, and Aila Keto, President of the Australian Rainforest Conservation Society, discuss the events leading up to the World Heritage listing of Queensland's Wet Tropics, and how the listing changed relationships between conservationists and the forestry industry across the state.
Walking on country with spirits, Wet tropics, Australia
Located on the eastern shore of Australias tropical north, Shiptons Flat is home to Marilyn, a Kuku Nyungkal Aboriginal woman, and her family.
She has been living here the ancestral way far removed from the services and conveniences of modern life as part of the sublime performance of nature.
Like her ancestors before her, Marilyn walks through the Nyungkal bubu, the Nyungkals country, acknowledging and conversing with the Spirit beings around her.
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Wet Tropics - Eternal vigilance
Mike Ahern AO, former Premier of Queensland, and Aila Keto, President of the Australian Rainforest Conservation Society, discuss the events leading up to the World Heritage listing of Queensland's Wet Tropics, and how the listing changed relationships between conservationists and the forestry industry across the state.
World Heritage Wet Tropics: Restoring Communities [Trailer]
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The School for Field Studies program in Australia ( seeks further understanding of the dynamics of rainforest ecosystems, including potential impacts of global climate change. Our goal is to develop rainforest restoration and management strategies that benefit both ecosystems and human communities, and that can serve as a model for conserving other rainforests.
Tracking timelapse of stars and the Milky Way seen through the rainforest canopy, Wet Tropics World
Tracking timelapse of stars and the Milky Way seen through the rainforest canopy, Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, North Queensland, Australia.
©Jurgen Freund/naturepl.com
The 5 World Heritage Sites of Queensland
Queensland is lucky to have five of the sixteen Australian natural world heritage sites in our state. These sites have been selected by UNESCO as sites with “outstanding universal value…” “…for whose protection it is the duty of the international community as a whole to cooperate.” The sites include the Great Barrier Reef, Riversleigh Fossil Sites, the Wet Tropics of Queensland, the Gondwana Rainforest and Fraser Island. Each uniquely different, they each tell a story of the evolution of Australia and the life that has called this land home for over 200 million years. Join us as we take you on a tour of these spectacular wonders.
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Wet Tropics - Eleventh hour
Mike Ahern AO, former Premier of Queensland, and Aila Keto, President of the Australian Rainforest Conservation Society, discuss the events leading up to the World Heritage listing of Queensland's Wet Tropics, and how the listing changed relationships between conservationists and the forestry industry across the state.
The best nature and wildlife experiences in the Wet Tropics
The World Heritage-listed Wet Tropics covers five precincts – and there’s something very special about each and every one.
You’ll find this quintuplet scattered 490km from Townsville’s nose to Tropical North Queensland’s tail, each offering a distinctly different Wet Tropics experience from one another.
From dry woodlands to misty mountains, the hardest decision you’ll make this year is which sort of World Heritage-listed Wet Tropics adventure is for you.
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Wet Tropics of Queensland
Une semaine à la découverte des tropiques humides wet tropics, classés au patrimoine mondiale de l'humanité. Nous aurons parcouru plus de 800km sur les routes du Queensland depuis Cairns en passant par la Daintree Forest ou encore le plateau d'Atherton.
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