“All but 4% of the 80,000 hectares of #rainforest on the #AthertonTablelands were razed for the yeoman’s idyll of smiling homesteads, rosy-cheeked children and plump wives, , which only dissipated with the #WorldHeritage listing of the #WetTropics in 1988. The wet tropics cover a minuscule 0.3% of Australia’s landscape but support more species diversity than any other place on the continent. “

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/05/our-fate-rests-on-efforts-like-this-the-family-restoring-precious-rainforest-to-its-former-glory
#Restoration #Conservation #Biodiversity

We wondered why the car coming towards us had flashed their lights - not much further on we realised this was the reason. A Southern Cassowary by the side of the highway. Taken on the Atherton Tablelands far north Queensland Australia. Photo credit @acstarr #birdsOfMastodon #birds #naturephotography #AthertonTablelands #Queensland #australia #SouthernCassowary