Gondwana Rainforests of Australia is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the east coast of mainland Australia , on the border between Queensland and New South Wales .
| Australia's East Coast Rainforests | |
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| Location | |
| A country |
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 World Heritage Site | |
| Gondwana rainforests of australia (Rainforests of the East Coast) | |
| Link | No. 368 on the World Heritage List |
| Criteria | viii, ix, x |
| Region | Countries of Asia and the Pacific |
| Turning on | 1986 ( 10th session ) |
| Extensions | 1994 |
Listed on the World Heritage List in 1986 (expanded in 1994 ) under the name Australian East Coast Temperate and Subtropical Rainforest Parks Temperate and Subtropical Forest Parks . Then it included 16 sections of rainforests in New South Wales (an area of about 203,500 ha). In 1994, the facility was expanded: it included another 40 facilities, most of which were located in Queensland. Between 1994 - 2007, it was called the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves Rainforest Reserves .
Currently, there are about 50 individual nature reserves located between the Australian cities of Newcastle and Brisbane . All of them stretch for 500 km along the Great Dividing Range in eastern New South Wales and southern Queensland, and the object itself is a cluster of numerous tracts of rainforest that are surrounded by eucalyptus forests and agricultural land. The rainforests of Australia’s east coast are the largest subtropical rainforests in the world. [1] The total area of the facility is about 370 thousand ha.
From a scientific point of view, they are important, as they represent a huge accumulation of ancient vegetation of Australia, formed during the time when the modern mainland was still part of the Gondwana supercontinent. [1] The terrain on which the forests are located is diverse. It includes numerous gorges, prehistoric volcanoes, waterfalls, rivers.
The world of flora and fauna is extremely rich: about half of all families of Australian plants and about a third of Australian species of mammals and birds are registered in forests (despite the fact that forests occupy only 0.3% of the total area of mainland Australia). [one]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Gondwana Rainforests of Australia (inaccessible link) . Australian Government. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Date of treatment April 5, 2009. Archived March 29, 2012.
Links
- UNEP-WCMC. GONDWANA RAINFORESTS OF AUSTRALIA. QUEENSLAND & NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA. (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment April 9, 2009. Archived August 2, 2010.