The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia is located in South East Queensland. The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia include the most extensive areas of sub-tropical rainforest in the world, with large areas of warm temperate rainforest. The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia includes the majority of the Antarctic beech cool temperate rainforest.
The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia is a World Heritage area that includes expansive rainforest reserves in both Queensland and New South Wales. Among the popular Queensland National Parks, there comes Lamington National Park, Springbrook National Park, Mt Barney National Park and the Main Range National Park.
It is quite easy to explore the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, as easy transports are available to reach the rainforests. The parks are readily accessible from the major Australian towns by sealed or graded gravel roads. The wide range of facilities for the travelers include kilometers of walking tracks, guided walking and adventure tours and various lovely accommodation options.
Rainforest once covered most of the ancient southern super-continent Gondwana and remained the most ancient type of vegetation in Australia. Once here, you will get to see many different kinds of plants, animals and insects. There is a large concentration of primitive plants that are directly linked to flowering plants existing over 100 million years ago. Tourists will also get to see numerous kinds of world’s ferns and conifers.
Although Gondwana Rainforests of Australia cover only about 0.3% of the country, they contain about half of all Australian plant families and almost 3rd portion of Australia’s mammal and bird species. The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia have an extremely high conservation value and provide a habitat for more than 200 rare plant and animal species.