Talk:Daintree Rainforest

Original Research?
I don't see any reference to what the original but is, so I am deleting that warning.Lokiloki 06:23, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Nevermind, I see where the problem is... I found a few blog entries about the Daintree buy-back program and surrounding controversy, but I assume these are insufficient as citations. Lokiloki 06:23, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Oldest rainforest & age content
Removed the following text from the article, pending citation

The Daintree rain forest 0.2% of Australias landmass, it is the eldest rainforest in the world. Formed 135 Million years ago.

Suggested rewording:

The Daintree Rainforest is the oldest rainforest in the world. It was formed 135 Million years ago.

--Peter Campbell Talk! 01:45, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

The claim on age is a misquote that goes back at least 30 years. The Daintree is notable for containing many primitive plants - cycads, ferns and also close relatives of the earliest angiosperms (flowering plants). It shows in the plants found there, clear linkages with New Caledonia and New Guinea, and the other Gondwanan land masses (which is where the 135 million years reference comes from), but the actual forest itself probably wasn't there during some of the glacial periods of the last 1- 2 million years because it was too dry. Tropical rain forest would have been present on the exposed continental shelf (due to lowered sea levels), and on some cloudy peaks. This interpretation is based on evidence of fossil pollen from the crater lakes on the Atherton Tableland and also marine sediment cores drilled into the sea-bed of the Great Barrier Reef.

As noted below re. size, I will dig the references ('citations') to support the facts and clean up this entry, which is frankly rife with errors. Eocene guy (talk) 01:34, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

I see the statement about the Daintree rainforest being '130 million years old' has reappeared. Its simply not true, and as I noted above, is a misquote. The Daintree rainforest has growing in it species of plant that are unaltered for millions of years, and plant groups that are '130 million years old', but the forest itself likely wasn't there as recently as 18,000 years ago when the area became quite dry due to the global ice age. Eocene guy (talk)

Largest rainforest

 * Daintree is Australia's largest contigupuis areas of rainforest.

Firstly, what does "contigupuis" mean? And secondly, isn't there a larger rainforest in Tasmania? Tangerine Cossack (talk) 12:59, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Tarkine for example: "This wilderness covers approximately 3,800 km²." Tangerine Cossack (talk) 03:44, 16 February 2008 (UTC) The Daintree rainforest position north of Cairns in tropical north Queensland is one of the worlds oldest and most beautiful rainforests. Close to 1200 square kilometres in size, it holds over 300 species of plant, over one third of Australia's mamal species including 13 that are found nowere else in the world. The Daintree rainforest was found more than 135 million years ago when Gwondana, a huge land mass began to seperate into what we now know as Africa, south Amercia, Antarctia, and India. The Wildlife in the Daintree rainforest is magnificent! It is home to mamals found nowhere else in the world including species of tree kangaroo, rat kangaroo, ring tailed possom, melomys, and ant echinus. The bird life is even more beautiful! Realated to the emus, reheas kiwis and ostrich the Cassowary is now endangered. However it is found in the rainforest of Coopercreek. Many other birds flourish including riffle birds, golden bowerbirds, chowchillias, and paradise kingfishers. Over 1050 species of reptile and frog in the world, 131 accour spesifically in the wet tropics. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.44.14.178 (talk) 08:42, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

I've seen these same points made - oldest rainforest / largest contiguous rain forest - time and again in the popular literature on this area. I'll dig up the factual data and change when I get a chance. I know the area well - my PhD was based on research in this area.

On size, it is the largest tract of TROPICAL rain forest in Australia (the Tarkine and all of Tasmania's rain forest are temperate rain forests), although the area around the Iron Range / McIllwraith Range further north on Cape York peninsular may be comparable in size. Larger tracts were probably present south of Cairns around Tully, now cleared for sugar cane, and larger tracts of subtropical rain forest were cleared near Brisbane and Grafton (NSW).

Eocene guy (talk) 01:31, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I look forward to seeing your changes! This is certainly an article that could do with a serious rewrite. mgiganteus1 (talk) 01:36, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Changes made. Eocene guy (talk) 03:18, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

plagairism!!
this is plagiarised from http://www.daintreerainforest.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.91.6.29 (talk) 09:20, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism
This is my first edit on wikipedia, so I hope I did it right.

Someone had changed the page to say the Daintree Rainforest was named after "Richard Head, an Australian nude artist and photographer." I changed "Head" to "Daintree" and "nude artist" to "geologist." I think that's more accurate. --Optatus Cleary (talk) 15:10, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Does anyone have any ideas why this article suffers from persistent vandalism? I suspect it is a common topic of school assignments. - Shiftchange (talk) 09:48, 24 August 2014 (UTC)


 * I suspect that the Daintree rainforest has just the right amount of fame to get vandalism, but not quite enough to get it quickly corrected. I suspect you're right about school assignments.  I'm not Australian, so I don't know how widely-discussed this rainforest is in Australian schools, but I could easily see a teacher in any country assigning students to research different rainforests.  I suspect that the article on the Amazon, for instance, is frequented by enough educated editors that vandalism there gets corrected fairly soon.  The Daintree seems just famous enough to be part of a school assignment, but not quite enough to have the traffic necessary to correct vandalism.  I was only looking at the page because I have visited the Daintree and was writing a short story about it, and wanted to check on some facts.  I probably am more aware of the existence of this rainforest than most Americans (since I've been to it), and nonetheless hadn't actually visited the page on it until about a week ago. Optatus Cleary (talk) 16:29, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

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Is it really a "rainforest"?
The term tropical rainforest has a specific meaning (under the Köppen climate classification for example). I am not Australian and (sadly) haven't visited (yet), but considering its location and Queensland climate data, have suggested in the first paragraph that Daintree should strictly be described as a seasonal tropical forest. Roy Bateman (talk) 05:12, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

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