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Flora and Fauna of Misty Mountains
The Misty Mountains are part of the Wet Tropics
World Heritage Rainforest.
The Wet Tropics provides an unparalleled living record of
the ecological and evolutionary processes that shaped the
flora and fauna of Australia over the past 415 million years.
Australian has been isolated from other land masses for millions
of years and this has helped shape our distinct floral and
faunal assemblages.
About 3,000 plant
species from 210 families are found in the Wet Tropics. Twelve
out of the world's 19 families of primitive flowering plants
grow here and within these families, there are least 50 species
found only in the Wet Tropics.
This area is home to about a third of Australia's 315 mammal
species - 13 of these species are found nowhere else in the
world.
Learn more about the mammals,
reptiles,
freshwater
fish, birds
and frogs
that inhabit the Misty Mountains of the World Heritage Area.
Information presented here was sourced from the Wet Tropics
Management Authority Website.
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