What Are the Most Biodiverse Rainforests?

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8 of the Planet's Most Biodiverse Rainforests

At 180 million years old, the Daintree Rainforest in northeastern Australia is the world's oldest tropical rainforest.

If you visit, you might like you've landed on a film set, where you'll be surrounded by beautiful jungle and plunging 400-foot-tall waterfalls. That's no coincidence: The rainforest reportedly inspired director James Cameron when creating the 2009 sci-fi movie Avatar. Rare and endemic animals to watch for include southern cassowary birds, Bennett's and Lumholtz's tree kangaroos, lesser sooty owls, and Australia's largest native carnivore, the spotted-tail quoll. Daintree is part of the Wet Tropics of Queensland, officially recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1988.

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