As you can tell the above photo shows you australia as a whole and indicates the Tropical rainforest in Australia. The dark green shown on the map above indicates the tropical rainforest.

 As you can tell, the tropical rainforest spans out across the nothern area of the continent which covers about 90,000 hectares(2). Throughout this blog we will be discussing all 900,000, hectors of the Australian rainforest however we may occasionally get specific and refer to specifically the northeastern region known as Queensland.

You will find in North Queensland one of the "most unique tropical rainforests in the world"(2). This rainforests stretches from Townsville to Cooktown, and covers an area of approximately 894,000 hectares, and is known to have an amazingly beautiful wildlife.