Diantre rainforest

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