Daintree Discovery Centre
Elevated boardwalk and canopy tower through rainforest older than the first flowering plants.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Daintree Discovery Centre in Cow Bay explains why this stretch of Australia's Daintree Rainforest ranks among the oldest tropical rainforests on Earth, older than the Amazon by tens of millions of years. It follows how botanists trace the age of its plant families, and what the elevated canopy tower and boardwalk let researchers study up close without cutting a tree down. You will also hear about the southern cassowary, a flightless bird moving through the undergrowth. Listen for it low in the leaf litter, not overhead.
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