Daintree rainforest
- Created by: Hannah Jeffery
- Created on: 18-02-15 16:32
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- Daintree tropical Rainforest
- location
- northern Queensland Australia
- runs adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef
- covers 900,000 hectares
- What's it like?
- over 135 million years old
- oldest rainforest in the world
- home to the most primitive plants
- 12 out of 19
- over 3500 vascular plants
- Australia's largest range of ferns
- contains the most endemic species in Australia
- eg cassowary
- 65% of Australia's bat and butterfly species
- low range of temperatures
- rarely goes above 36 degrees in the day and below 22 degrees at night
- 120 days of rain
- annual rainfall of 2000 mm
- over 135 million years old
- Goods and Services
- carbon sequestration
- vegetation acts as a global carbon sink
- carbon held in leaves, branches, roots and stems of plants- reducing pollution and regulating climate
- People of the rainforest
- Kuku Yalanji aboriginal people
- Natural features are interwoven with the peoples religion, spiritually, economic use such as food, medicine and tools and for social and moral organisation
- medicine
- 25% of drugs
- daintree rainforest has provided chemicals used to treat diabetes, malaria and heart conditions
- tourism
- attracts nearly half a million tourists a year
- vistors come for the scenery, the unique combination of the coast, rainforest and mountains
- biodiversity on land and coasts eg Great barrier reef
- logging
- timber industry began in the 1980's
- logging is unsustainable
- catalyst for carbon consumption
- carbon sequestration
- Stakeholders
- government buying private land to conserve
- will cost $15 million
- buying land north of the Peninsula
- wet tropics management authority
- set policies and procedures which govern the activities and land use of the wet tropics
- Kuku Yalanji people
- they follow seasonal cycles and move their camps when the seasons change
- maximises gathering of food and hunting as well as allowing the natural habitat to recover
- they follow seasonal cycles and move their camps when the seasons change
- Businesses
- Daintree ice cream company
- sell homemade tropical ice cream made with fruits from daintree
- Daintree ice cream company
- international researchers
- home to a number of rare plants and animals
- cassowary
- attracts attention from scientists researching biology
- home to a number of rare plants and animals
- tourists
- world heritage site and has the highest biodiversity in Australia
- important that its sustained for future generations of tourists
- benefit locals by increasing income
- world heritage site and has the highest biodiversity in Australia
- hospitals and drugs
- 25% of drug products
- many tropical plants have been identifies as having anti-cancer properties
- government buying private land to conserve
- conflicting views
- businesses and researchers
- businesses needs certain products which are in short supply
- Researchers want to research these products before they become extinct
- eg tropical plants
- loggers and conservationists
- trees are habitats for many animals and act as carbon sink
- helps to reduce climate change and pollution
- cause an affect on a global scale
- loggers might also ruin the natural habitat and put of tourists by reducing wildlife
- companies such as daintree ice cream company will have less foot fall to trade with
- natural features of the rainforest in everyday life for religion, medicine and tools
- disturbed by researchers and possibly school trips
- trees are habitats for many animals and act as carbon sink
- businesses and researchers
- location
- set policies and procedures which govern the activities and land use of the wet tropics
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