Daintree National Park
Ancient lowland rainforest estimated at 180 million years old, among the world's oldest ecosystems.
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This guide to Daintree National Park in Far North Queensland starts with a claim: the rainforest around you may be older than flowers themselves, and older than the Amazon by tens of millions of years. It follows the nineteen eighty-three fight over a road that conservationists tried to physically stop with their own bodies, and asks what became of the plan to clear this land for farms and housing. Along the way it introduces the southern cassowary, a bird still doing the job it did in the age of dinosaurs. Best heard slowing down to listen for movement in the undergrowth.
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