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• Welcome | Wet Tropics Management Authority

  The Wet Tropics World Heritage Area is a living natural wonder and a cultural landscape like nowhere else on earth. It hugs the coastal fringes from Townsville to Cairns like a long green ribbon.

• Experience the Wet Tropics | Wet Tropics Management Authority

  Experience the Wet Tropics The Wet Tropics is renowned for its scenic natural beauty and incredible biodiversity. There are so many ways for locals and visitors alike to engage with the World Heritage...

• Rainforests | Wet Tropics Management Authority

  What is a rainforest? Most of us can recognise a rainforest, despite the fact that rainforests come in a wide variety of structures and complexity. We may not know individual species, but we recogni...

• Vegetation information | Wet Tropics Management Authority

  Vegetation information The Wet Tropics vegetation maps (below) and vegetation fact sheets provide information about the vegetation of the Wet Tropics. Wet Tropics vegetation maps The Wet Tropics veget...

• Wetlands | Wet Tropics Management Authority

  Melaleuca quinquenervia forests in freshwater swamps, and Melaleuca viridiflora on low nutrient soils with impeded drainage and seasonally waterlogged. Drainage and clearing of coastal swamps, often...

• Wet Tropics Biodiversity | Wet Tropics Management Authority

  What is biodiversity? Biodiversity is the variety of all life forms: the different plants, animals and micro-organisms, their genes and the ecosystems of which they are a part. There are three widel...