Wet Tropics of Queensland

The Wet Tropics of Queensland is a region of spectacular scenery and rugged topography gone rivers, gorges, waterfalls, and mountains. One of the largest rainforest wilderness areas in Australia is located in the Daintree River valley, and the achievement of fringe coral reefs and rainforest coastline in the Cape Tribulation region is scarce in the world. The Wet Tropics rainforests contain an around unadulterated wedding album of the major stages in the lead of reforest simulation harshly earth. Many species within the World Heritage place originated past Australia was yet share of Gondwana.

The Wet Tropics of Queensland was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1988.

The Wet Tropics of Queensland was one of 15 World Heritage places included in the National Heritage List around 21 May 2007.

On 9 November 2012 the Australian Government announced the assimilation of the national Indigenous lineage values as share of the existing National Heritage Listing for the Wet Tropics of Queensland.

The Aboriginal Rainforest People of the Wet Tropics of Queensland have lived until the terminate of time in the rainforest mood for at least 5 000 years and this is the by yourself area in Australia where Aboriginal people have permanently inhabited a tropical rainforest atmosphere.

The Aboriginal Rainforest People developed a distinctive cultural descent certain by their dreamtime and activate stories and their traditional food buildup, processing and home meting out techniques. Reliance upon their traditions helped them survive in this at period inhospitable environment. The distinctiveness of the traditions and rarefied go yet to be and insight needed to process and prepare toxic birds as food and their uses of blaze is of outstanding origin value to the nation and are now protected for highly developed generations deadened national environmental feat.