A significant aspect of living in the Daintree Rainforest comes from knowledge of past inhabitants and their impacts on the land. The power given to governments to make decisions that seriously affect human capacity to live in harmony with the natural environment is important to this discussion. […]
The Primary Goal for the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area is to implement Australia’s international duty to protect, conserve, present, rehabilitate and transmit to future generations the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, within the meaning of the World Heritage Convention. The Wet Tropics World Heritage Area fulfils all four criteria described for inclusion of properties [...]
Rainforest Revelations chronologies a progressive history of life in the oldest rainforest in the world. In 1988, a precedent was established that included private land in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. Freehold land, purchased in fee simple, was protected through a treaty between the Australian Government and the United Nations (UNESCO) and henceforth World Heritage landholders [...]
