Daintree Rainforest
Ancient tropical forest of towering canopy and tangled understorey, older than flowering plants themselves.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Daintree Rainforest near Cairns turns on the fight over a road: in the early nineteen eighties, bulldozers came to cut a route through untouched forest at Cape Tribulation, and conservationists responded by blocking them outright. It follows that standoff through to the nineteen eighty-eight world heritage listing of the Wet Tropics of Queensland, and to what scientists later confirmed about this stretch of forest. Listen for the cassowary tracks as you walk, descendants of a much older world still moving through this one.
This audio guide was created using AI.
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