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Diantre rainforest
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Cards (14)
How many visitors does the rainforest bring into Australia?
400,000
How old is the rainforest?
135 million
years old, the
oldest
In the world
There has been a project which aim to discover what about the trees as a result of drought?
A trees
vulnerability
to drought and what are more
resistant
to plan for the future
The average life expectancy has halved over the past how many years?
35
years
What is the average annual rainfall in the rainforest?
2000mm
What percentage of the rain fall between December and March?
60%
The number of day hotter than 35 degrees is projected to change from what to what?
4
to
9
What does the rainforest boarder and therefore impact greatly?
The
Great Barrier Reef
How much of the rainforest is listed as protected area ?
Only
2/3rds
In a 20 span how much space of primary forest was lost?
62
ha
What does fragmentation of forests result in?
The stopping of animals and plants moving about,
limiting
the variety of ecosystems and
breeding populations
in each rainforest section.
In a period of 5 years (2016-2021) the number of dwellings increased by how much?
24%
When was the daintree forest added as a world heritage site?
1998 and protect 12km square kilometres
What has rainforest rescue been doing?
buying back
land
from
private property holders.
They have been doing this since 1999