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Australia: immersion in the ancestral tropical forest of Dandree
Few forests on the planet are spared from deforestation, including the oldest in the world, the Daintree Forest in northeast Australia. Despite human action, flora and fauna seem to have incredible defense mechanisms. – (France 2)
Few forests on the planet are spared from deforestation, including the oldest in the world, the Daintree Forest in northeast Australia. Despite human action, flora and fauna seem to have incredible defense mechanisms.
A thick green carpet as far as the eye can see covers these valleys in northeastern Australia. The Daintree rainforest is the oldest in the world, and under its canopy contains exceptional biodiversity, which has remained intact for more than 180 million years. A maze of century-old trees intertwined with lianas, into which a family of Australian tourists ventured that morning. They are accompanied by Neil Hewett, who has been traveling this dense jungle for more than 30 years.
Dissuasive defense mechanisms
“It is a fragment of an ancient tropical forest, which previously covered all of Australia but also India, Africa, Latin America and Antarctica. It’s like you’re going back in time this morning.” indicates the guide, in the Daintree Forest. A journey through time, in which Neil Hewett will reveal to tourists the secrets of the longevity of these plants, which have resisted for several millennia, thanks to very dissuasive defense mechanisms.
Over the years, the tropical forest gradually expands, and restores all its grandeur to this unique site in the world, bordered by white sand beaches, which overlook the Great Barrier Reef, another invaluable Australian heritage.