In a ceremony on Wednesday the Australian state of Queensland granted land deeds to a local Indigenous group, giving them ownership of the world's oldest rainforest. The Daintree Rainforest, listed as ...

Seamus Doherty receives funding from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage. In Queensland’s northern reaches lie the Wet Tropics, spanning about ...

What could be Australia's heaviest insect has been discovered in northern Australia's high altitude rainforests. The supersized stick insect, about 40cm long, was discovered in high altitude trees in ...

Claire Gely receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Susan Laurance works for James Cook University that runs the Daintree Rainforest Observatory. Susan Laurance has received ARC funding ...

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