Diantre rainforest

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    • 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
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