What is the Daintree Rainforest?
It runs right up to the shore! (http://www.thenewport.com.au/daintree-rainforest.html)
The Daintree River!
(http://www.destination360.com/australia-south-pacific/australia/daintree-rainforest)
The Daintree Rainforest is the tropical rainforest located in North-East Queensland in Australia. It is also referred to as the Wet Tropics of Queensland. It forms the tropical rainforest region between Townsville and Cooktown and is the largest area of continuous rainforest in Australia. The average temperature is 32 C in the summer and 25 C in the winter and gets on about 4.2 meters of rain each year. It contains the Daintree National Park, the Daintree River, state forest, and privately owned land. The unique aspect of this rainforest is that it grows right up to the coast and has a nice juxtaposition with fringing reefs that are a part of the Great Barrier Reef system. It also has the clearest evidence of biological evolution. Since it is 135 million years old, it gives scientists a clear image of the evolutionary processes of plants. (Aiken and Leigh)
The Daintree Rainforest is the tropical rainforest located in North-East Queensland in Australia. It is also referred to as the Wet Tropics of Queensland. It forms the tropical rainforest region between Townsville and Cooktown and is the largest area of continuous rainforest in Australia. The average temperature is 32 C in the summer and 25 C in the winter and gets on about 4.2 meters of rain each year. It contains the Daintree National Park, the Daintree River, state forest, and privately owned land. The unique aspect of this rainforest is that it grows right up to the coast and has a nice juxtaposition with fringing reefs that are a part of the Great Barrier Reef system. It also has the clearest evidence of biological evolution. Since it is 135 million years old, it gives scientists a clear image of the evolutionary processes of plants. (Aiken and Leigh)
Here is a map of where the Daintree Rainforest is located!
(http://www.destination360.com/australia-south-pacific/australia/map)
The Southern cassowary
This rainforest is very diverse and contains many different types of animals. It contains 30% of the frog, marsupial and reptile species, 20% of the bird species and 65% of the bat and butterfly species in Australia. This forest is contained within an area that takes up 0.2% of the landmass of Australia. In the rainforest, there are over 3,000 vascular plant species with 576 being endemic. Also, there are 107 mammal species with 11 endemic species. For birds, there are 368 different species with 24 being endemic. For reptiles, there are 113 species with 24 endemic species. Lastly, for amphibians there are 51 species with 22 being endemic. The Daintree is considered to be the oldest rainforest and shows the major stages of evolution of land plants starting over 135 million years ago. Also, the relatives of primitive animals can still be found in the rainforest today! ("Wet Tropics" UNESCO and Aiken and Leigh) 
The Flying Fox
Hanging Upside Down!
The Green Tree Frog
These pictures and more can be found here http://www.daintreerainforestinformation.com/Daintree_Animals.html#0 :)
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