DAINTREE RAINFOREST

Welcome to the Daintree Rainforest website. Spectacular beauty and extraordinary biodiversity presented through a gallery of images in full-screen format by company photographer, Neil Hewett.

The complexities of the oldest surviving rainforest in the world continue to challenge humanity as it strives to comprehend the continuity of growth, the intricate relationships and the incredible diversity established over 160 million years.

The image gallery is partitioned into aerial, fauna, flora, forest, insect and spider lists, for your convenience. We hope you enjoy …

The relictual Gondwanan portion of the world-famous Daintree Rainforest, exists exclusively within the central three valleys off the eastern flank of Thornton Peak, with the Cooper Valley at its centrepiece. Here the highest biodiversity and concentration of ancient, rare, primitive and endemic species, impress visitors with exceptional richness, amid magnificent fan palm galleries and rainforest giants.

From the top of Thornton Peak, luxuriant, emerald green rainforest cascades into the blue of the Coral Sea, intermingling with the mangroves and the Great barrier Reef. Recognised for its universal significance, the Daintree Rainforest was inscribed onto the World Heritage List on the 9th December 1988 to provide the highest order of conservation protection possible.

Daintree Rainforest Pty Ltd. is the land manager of a freehold World Heritage Nature Refuge that show-cases the extraordinary biological and ecological values, including the astonishing fauna and flora, of the world’s oldest rainforest, through guided, interpreted rainforest tours and packages.

Daintree Rainforest demonstrates that cost effective conservation and carbon neutral operation on the land, can be fully-funded by sustainable eco-tourism at no cost to the public purse.

Visitors become partners-in-protection while experiencing magnificent old-growth rainforest in small, exclusive groups, under the interpretive expertise of long-term inhabitant guides. The advantages of such an arrangement, optimizes the quality of the rainforest experience and the likelihood of wildlife sightings in natural habitat.