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The Daintree Rainforest is located in Daintree Region of Far North Queensland Australia. The Daintree Rainforest is the oldest continuously living rainforest in the world, dating over 135 million years and covering an area that stretches from Mossman Gorge in the South to Cooktown in the north.
The Daintree Rainforest is home to one of the highest populations of primitive flowering plants in the world with the greatest concentration of plant species that are rare, or threatened with extinction, anywhere in the world. The Daintree Rainforest contains approximately one third of the frog, marsupial and reptile species in Australia, and around sixty per cent of Australia's bat and butterfly species.
Approximately 430 species of birds live among the trees, including 13 species that are found nowhere else in the world. These account for around twenty per cent of bird species in the Australia. All of this diversity is contained within an area that takes up 0.2% of the landmass of Australia.
The Daintree Rainforest was world heritage listed in 1988 and is positioned adjacent to another world heritage area The Great Barrier Reef, making it the only place in the world where two world heritage areas meet.
