Wet Tropics of Queensland
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How it came to be
Stretching about 450 km along the north-east coast of Queensland, the area covers some 894,000 hectares, most of it tropical rainforest. It preserves relics of the Gondwanan forest that covered Australia and part of Antarctica 50 to 100 million years ago, where the continent's marsupials and many other animals have their origins.
It covers less than 0.2 per cent of the continent but holds about 30 per cent of Australia's marsupial species, 60 per cent of its bats, 40 per cent of its birds and 65 per cent of its ferns. Rainforest Aboriginal people have lived in these forests for at least 5,000 years.
Logging was banned in 1987, and the area was inscribed in 1988. The share under protected-area status has grown from 14 per cent at listing to more than 65 per cent. A regional agreement in 2005 set out cooperative management with 18 Rainforest Aboriginal tribal groups.
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