Community-Based Biodiversity Conservation in Australia - Engaging the community in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area
Community-Based Biodiversity Conservation in Australia - Engaging the community in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area
2 PagesCASE STUDY Community-Based Biodiversity Conservation in Australia Engaging the community in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area Location: Mission Beach, Queensland, Australia Partners: CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences; Terrain NRM; Spatial Information Services Pty Ltd; and the University of Wyoming Geographic Information Sciences Center Context: Australia’s Wet Tropics is a band of rainforest extending along the east coast of Australia in northern Queensland. The area enjoys very high species diversity, and some 73 species of vertebrates are endemic to these rainforests. This coast is called the Cassowary Coast, in honor of the Southern Cassowary, a large, endangered, culturally iconic flightless bird that is an active disperser of rainforest seeds and is therefore critical t
