Rainforest Night Tour

To experience the sights and sounds of the rainforest at night is truly something special. The Rainforest Night Tour takes you on a journey through the Atherton Tablelands rainforest as it comes alive at night. With a small group in addition to an excellent guide. Above all, you will experience this unique wildlife environment that few others get the chance to see.

About 80% of Australia’s wildlife is more active from dusk through to nighttime. As a result, the Rainforest Night Tour starts in the early afternoon. We use spotlights in the dark to capture our unique animals up in the rainforest canopy.

Meet Some Aussie Wildlife

Your informative guide will show you some of the world’s most unusual animals. For example the mysterious platypus, tree kangaroos, possums, gliders, bats, bandicoots, echidnas, snakes, frogs and many others.

On the Rainforest Night Tour, you will learn all about the tropical rainforest. We want to educate our guests about the Wet Tropics and the importance of preserving this incredible ecosystem. Secondly, how local Aboriginal tribes use the vegetation to make tools and to heal and make remedies.

Some interesting facts that you will get to learn in more detail on The Rainforest Night Tour:

  • The Wet Tropics cover an area of 894,420 hectares between Townsville and Cooktown.
  • Some plant and animal species have existed here for over 100 million years.
  • This is the oldest continually surviving rainforest on earth.
  • Twelve of the world’s nineteen families of primitive flowering plants occur in the wet tropics.
  • Over 2,800 different plant species are found here with over 700 unique to this area.
  • The Wet Tropics World Heritage Area covers less than 0.01% of Australia but is home to 30% of its marsupial species, 60% of its butterflies, 50% of its bats, 30% of its frogs, 23% of its reptiles, and over 40% of its birds. Many of these species are endemic to this region.
  • There are more than 20 Aboriginal tribal groups with ongoing traditional connections to the land in this area.

 

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