Large areas of rainforest are found in well-known national parks such as the Daintree National Park in northern Queensland, Barrington Tops National Park in the Hunter region of New South Wales, and the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park in Tasmania. Monsoon rainforests occur in northern Australia in seasonally dry coastal and sub-coastal regions.Ī total of 1.8 million hectares (50%) of the Rainforest native forest type is on nature conservation reserves (Table 1). Dry rainforests occur in pockets protected from frequent fire in sub-coastal and inland areas of northern and eastern Australia and northern Western Australia. Warm-temperate rainforests grow in New South Wales and Victoria, and cool-temperate rainforests are found in Victoria and Tasmania and in small areas at high altitude in New South Wales and Queensland.
Tropical and subtropical rainforests are found in northern and eastern Australia in wet coastal areas. Open a high-resolution version of Map 1 that can be saved as a PNG fileĪustralia has many types of rainforest, varying with rainfall and latitude. A total of 2.0 million hectares (55%) is in Queensland and 0.7 million hectares (20%) are in Tasmania. The Rainforest native forest type is found in the Northern Territory and all states except South Australia (Map 1). The tropical rainforests in Far North Queensland are rich in marsupial, frog and butterfly species, while the cool-temperate rainforests of Tasmania support diverse fungi, mosses and lichens. Rainforests support a significant part of Australia’s biodiversity, including many of Australia’s unique plant families.
They grow into large trees when events such as tree falls, lightning strikes or wind damage (including from cyclones) create gaps in the canopy. Rainforest tree species are typically shade-tolerant when young, and establish as saplings in the understorey of mature forest. They rarely experience fire, and generally contain no eucalypts or only the occasional individual eucalypt tree emerging from the rainforest canopy. This forest profile will then be updated also.Īustralia has 3.6 million hectares of the Rainforest native forest type, which is 2.7% of Australia’s total forest area.Īustralia’s rainforests are typically characterised by high rainfall, lush growth and closed canopies. ABARES is in the process of updating indicators for SOFR with data up to or as at 2021, with the intention of publishing the updated indicators from mid to late 2023. Information for this profile is drawn from Australia's State of the Forests Report 2018 (SOFR).
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