You may be surprised to learn that the world’s oldest tropical lowland rainforest – which dates back about 180 million years to the Jurassic era – is in Australia.
Queensland’s Daintree Rainforest, described by Sir David Attenborough as the most extraordinary place on Earth, measures just 463 square miles yet it packs in more tree species in one hectare than in the entire 210,000 square miles of the UK.
An astonishing 430 bird species, including the giant cassowary, call it