Gondwana Rainforests | Queensland's 5 World Heritage Sites
Gondwana was the ancient southern supercontinent that included Australasia, Africa, and South America and was covered in temperate rainforest. When Australia broke away from the Gondwanan continent the majority of these rainforests warmed and dried up. Today, the Gondwana rainforest includes approximately 50 separate reserves and covers a large area straddling the Queensland and New South Wales border. It is the world’s most extensive sub-tropical rainforest. Protected areas include Lamington, Springbrook, Mt Barney and Main Range National Parks. Together, these areas contain more frog, snake, bird and marsupial species than anywhere else in Australia and represent examples of major stages of the Earth’s evolutionary history. The national parks make it easy to explore all the richness captured in this world heritage site.
More interesting facts about the Gondwana Rainforests:
• They cover 366,000 hectares, of which 59,000 are in Queensland.
• The area includes the oldest examples of the world's ferns and conifers.
• Over 200 species of rare or threatened plant and animal species call Gondwana home.
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Gondwana Rainforests of Australia (UNESCO/NHK)
This site, comprising several protected areas, is situated predominantly along the Great Escarpment on Australia's east coast. The outstanding geological features displayed around shield volcanic craters and the high number of rare and threatened rainforest species are of international significance for science and conservation.
Source: UNESCO TV / © NHK Nippon Hoso Kyokai
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Highway 1: Australia's greatest road trip: Gondwana rainforests of NSW
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Centuries old Antarctic beech trees (Nothofagus moorei) cling to the long-extinct Tweed Volcano's outer rim in the Border Ranges NP, in far northern NSW. The hoary bark of these Gondwanan survivors is softened by dark-green coats of lichens and bryophytes.
The Antarctic beech forests protected in the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area support one of the nation's greatest concentrations of marsupial, bird, frog and snake species.
Descending deep into Dorrigo's subtropical rainforest along eroded basalt terraces, we spot strangler figs and walkingstick palms and our eyes follow the mossy, buttressed trunks of booyong trees up into a canopy draped with vines and studded with epiphytes. Birdsong rings out from these treetop gardens and waterfalls trickle under the track and disappear beneath bracken ferns that carpet the gully below.
Our long descent ends at a suspension bridge that spans the void beneath Crystal Shower Falls, swinging and swaying about 20 metres above the river gully and leading walkers into a fern-covered cavern behind the waterfall to gaze back out through its broad shimmering veil.
One of 50 sites between Newcastle and Brisbane that form the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area (WHA), Dorrigo National Park appeals for its accessibility, attracting around 150,000 visitors every year. But it's for a riverside camp in Nymboi-Binderay National Park that we've journeyed inland to where the Nymboida River's rampaging rapids thrill rafters with a wild whitewater ride.
West of Dorrigo, Moonpar Forest Drive cuts a narrow path north through stands of giant tallowwood trees to Platypus Flat, a serene stretch of riverbank where deep pools momentarily curb the 165km-long Nymboida River, known by its Gumbaynggirr Aboriginal name. We select a site between quiet campers stirring pots and stoking fires and after Maya's steaming alfresco bath, spend the hours before sunset on the water's edge watching platypus and river turtles bubble to the surface.
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Gondwana Rainforests of Australia part1
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia part1
オーストラリア、世界遺産ゴンドワナ多雨林地区、スプリングブルックの奇跡を歩く
Gondwana Rainforests Of Australia
The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia is a serial property comprising the major remaining areas of rainforest in southeast Queensland and northeast New South Wales. It represents outstanding examples of major stages of the Earth’s evolutionary history, ongoing geological and biological processes, and exceptional biological diversity. A wide range of plant and animal lineages and communities with ancient origins in Gondwana, many of which are restricted largely or entirely to the Gondwana Rainforests, survive in this collection of reserves. The Gondwana Rainforests also provides the principal habitat for many threatened species of plants and animals.
Rainforest Beneath the Canopy - YouTube
The Gondwana Rainforests are so-named because the fossil record indicates that when Gondwana existed it was covered by rainforests containing the same kinds of species that are living today. Not all Gondwanan rainforests in Australia are located in the New South Wales- Queensland region; the largest Gondwanan rainforest in Australia is located in Tasmania's Tarkine wilderness. The number of visitors to the Gondwana rainforest reserves in New South Wales and Queensland is about 2 million per year
Rainforest Gondwanaland
In memory of
Peter Carolan,
Gondwanaland co-founder,
his superb ambient music style
went perfectly with didj
on this track, Rainforest...
Discover Gondwana Rainforests in #NSWParks | 25 Years Celebration
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, with NSW National Parks. Join events and guided tours and enjoy walks, waterfalls and scenic drives through landscapes millions of years in the making. Find out more at:
Discover the unique plants and animals, and ancient landscapes that make this place a UNESCO World Heritage Area. The extraordinary Gondwana Rainforests of Australia contain a diversity of rainforests including the largest areas of subtropical rainforest in the world. They are listed as World Heritage for their unique plants and animals and for what it tells us about the development of life on Earth.
Come and explore these ancient landscapes on self-guided walks, scenic touring routes or stay in unique rainforest accommodation. NSW National Parks guided tours are the best way to learn about these lands that stood before dinosaurs roamed the earth.
Natural Bridge Circuit @Springbrook National Park Gold Coast 2019 PART-2
Natural Bridge Circuit @Springbrook National Park 2019 PART 2
The HIKE To Natural Arch....................
The Springbrook National Park comprises 15,310 acres situated on the McPherson Range near Springbrook and forms part of the UNESCO World Heritage listed Gondwana Rainforests of Australia.
Allow 40 minutes for the one and a half kilometre Natural Bridge Circuit, through lush ancient Gondwana rainforest lined in buttress roots, strangler figs, epiphytic ferns and berry covered lily pillies (in Spring).
The monumental rock arch formation known as Natural Bridge is very popular with walkers and bird lovers during the day who flock to see the streaming waterfall. At night however the cave comes alive with thousands of nocturnal glow-worms and microbats, which can be witnessed on a guided spotlight tour.
Music: Lakey Inspired - Wonder
Springbrook National Park and Lamington National Park, Rainforest Australia in HD
Rainforest, Springbrook National Park and Lamington National Park. Locations include Binna Burra, Natural Bridge, O'Reilly's, Purling Brook Falls and many more around the Scenic Rim. Nestled behind Australia's Gold Coast along the Scenic Rim are the remnants of rainforest dating back to the time of the super-continent Gondwana.
Footage in this video was captured during April 2014. Key locations visited include (in order of appearance) Goomoolahra Falls, Purling Brook Falls, forest at Best of All lookout, Box Forest Circuit (walking track), Box Log Falls, Natural Bridge.
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Canon 24-105mm F4.0
Tokina 11-16mm F2.8
Canon 50mm F 1.8
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Explore Gondwana rainforests at Barrington Tops National Park | #NSWParks
Barrington Tops National Park is a unique wilderness to explore World Heritage Gondwana rainforests. Discover crisp sub-alpine campsites, tranquil hidden waterfalls and bursting wildflowers and 4wd trails. All of this at almost 1500m of elevation above sea level, and only a few hours north of Sydney.
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Australia, Daintree Rainforest ( HD )
The Daintree Rainforest is a tropical rainforest region on the north east coast of Queensland, Australia, north of Mossman and Cairns. At around 1,200 km2 (460 sq mi), Daintree is the largest continuous area of tropical rainforest on the Australian continent. Along the coastline north of the Daintree River, tropical rainforest grows right down to the edge of the sea.
HSIE- Gondwana Rainforests: Weather
A short weather report based off the Gondwana Rainforests located in QLD, Australia.
Relax unwind and explore the Ancient Rainforest's of Queensland Australia
Nature is a gift to all of us and sometimes we need to slow down, stop and enjoy the simple things that surround us. So for those of you who are caught up and can't get away, here is something we would like to share with you.
A collection of Rainforest shots from across Queensland. Theses destinations include The Gold Coast, Cairns & Townsville just to name a few.
So sit back, relax, unwind and enjoy Some of Queensland's nature and its best.
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10,000 year old Trees of an Ancient Gondwana Rainforest
In the sub-tropical rainforest of far eastern Australia - an ancient ecosystem exists cloaked in a living mystery and magic.
Home to 10,000 year old Antarctic Beech (Nothofagus mooreii) a continental eco-tone where plant species from the asian sub-continent co-exist with those of Gonwanan origin.
Trees that evolved in a time when Australia was joined with New Zealand, Antarctica and South America - where Tree Kangaroos, platypus and birds of paradise emerged from the cauldron of earthly consciousness.
These lush, ancient ecosystems once covered the entire super-continent known as Gondwana - an ever-evolving self-regenerating forest super organism.
As the land dried out, the forest became smaller and smaller - now existing as islands of mega biodiverse lushness - in a sea of open forest, farmland and human settlements.
Our ancestors from the land before time.
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia part2
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia part2
オーストラリア、世界遺産ゴンドワナ多雨林地区、スプリングブルックの奇跡を歩く
Take the scenic route on the Rainforest Way Drive
Explore World Heritage-listed rainforests, national parks, mountains and relaxed towns on short, scenic drives around the hinterland of the Gold Coast.
Walk through the lush rainforest of Lamington National Park on your way to Tamborine Mountain. Fly the mountains and green farmland of the Scenic Rim on a glider or join a guided bicycle tour and feast on local cheeses.
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オーストラリアのゴンドワナ雨林 ～ドリゴ国立公園 Gondwana Rainforests @ Dorrigo National Park
南北に約800km、約37万ヘクタール＝3,700,000,000平方メートルにも及ぶ、広大な世界遺産『オーストラリアのゴンドワナ雨林』。亜熱帯～冷温帯性の雨林としては世界最大規模です。
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GONDWANA - Nature Has the Solution
Video journal in the Gondwana rainforest, Mount Cougal. Recharging and reconnecting to nature. Imagine how many of your ancestors would have done the exact same thing!