Can someone guess where I took this photograph?
Wilderness
New Daintree Rainforest Website: Neil Hewett
HAVE you had a chance to check out the spectacular new Daintree Rainforest website? Magnificent beauty and extraordinary biodiversity presented through a gallery of images in full-screen format. The complexities of the oldest surviving rainforest in the world continue to challenge humanity as it strives to comprehend the continuity of growth, the intricate relationships and the incredible diversity established over 160 million years. The image gallery is partitioned into aerial, fauna, flora, forest, insect and spider lists, for your convenience…
The relictual Gondwanan portion of the world-famous Daintree Rainforest, exists exclusively within the central three valleys off the eastern flank of Thornton Peak, with the Cooper Valley at its centrepiece. Here the highest biodiversity and concentration of ancient, rare, primitive and endemic species, impress visitors with exceptional richness, amid magnificent fan palm galleries and rainforest giants…
Daintree Rainforest demonstrates that cost effective conservation and carbon neutral operation on the land, can be fully-funded by sustainable eco-tourism at no cost to the public purse.
Neil Hewett.
Holiday Reading: Emma Marris
Hi Jennifer,
Longtime reader etc etc and I must thankyou for your always interesting blog.
I could find no mention of Emma Marris and her new book ‘The Rambunctious Garden’ on there so I wondered if you were aware of it. I thought it would generate some debate as it has with my group of friends, so I thought I’d pass it on.
The first link is to an article she co-wrote and the second a review of sorts. She is a superb writer and I commend it to you.
Best wishes for the season and the new year!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/opinion/the-age-of-man-is-not-a-disaster.html
Regards Ross
Season’s Greetings
This brilliant red, waxy toadstool is the fruiting body of an inconspicuous fungus that thrives on leaf litter, rotting wood and soil in the rainforests of North Queensland when the weather starts to warm up… which is usually towards Christmas time in Australia. The image was sent to me by Neil Hewett from Cooper Creek Wilderness with best wishes for Christmas. www.ccwild.com
A Note from the Daintree
Hello Jennifer,
Tourism in the Daintree Rainforest is continuing to decline, partly because of the relative value of the Australian dollar.
Recent upturns in the global economy have been met with a proportionate recovery in other parts of Australia, but the far north seems to have suffered the double whammy of natural disasters which have been overly-publicised to the extent that many travellers to Australia are still shying away from Queensland.
The challenge for the people of the Daintree Rainforest is to get the word out that we are enjoying unobstructed accessibility, are open for business and waiting to showcase the rich diversity of experiences that make a great nature-based holiday in the oldest rainforest in the world.
If you feel inclined to assist, kindly forward this eNewsletter onto a friend who may be considering travelling in the not too distant future…
[Read more…] about A Note from the Daintree
What is Wilderness (Part 12)
The chief executive of the National Parks Association of New South Wales, Andrew Cox, was reported in today’s The Sydney Morning Herald saying that he would “die in a ditch” protecting national parks from commercialisation by the tourism industry.
Back of Bourke, May 2005. Photograph taken by Jennifer Marohasy
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Other posts in this series:
part 1 https://jennifermarohasy.com.dev.internet-thinking.com.au/blog/archives/000797.html Percy Bysshe Shelley 1820, Theodore Roosevelt 1903, Donald McKinley 1963, William Tucker 1982, Phil Cheney 2003.
part 2 https://jennifermarohasy.com.dev.internet-thinking.com.au/blog/archives/003015.html Martin Thomas, 2003.
part 3 https://jennifermarohasy.com.dev.internet-thinking.com.au/blog/archives/003044.html Travis, May 2008.
part 4 https://jennifermarohasy.com.dev.internet-thinking.com.au/blog/archives/003104.html John Brinckerhoff Jackson, 1994.
part 5 https://jennifermarohasy.com.dev.internet-thinking.com.au/blog/archives/003112.html Wes George, 2008.
part 6 https://jennifermarohasy.com.dev.internet-thinking.com.au/blog/archives/003120.html Cohenite, 2008.
part 7 https://jennifermarohasy.com.dev.internet-thinking.com.au/blog/archives/003124.html Roy Spencer, 2008.
part 8 https://jennifermarohasy.com.dev.internet-thinking.com.au/blog/archives/003127.html Libby, 2008
part 9 https://jennifermarohasy.com.dev.internet-thinking.com.au/blog/archives/003129.html Spangled Drongo, 2008
part 10 https://jennifermarohasy.com.dev.internet-thinking.com.au/blog/archives/003131.html Walter Starck, 2008
part 11 https://jennifermarohasy.com.dev.internet-thinking.com.au/blog/archives/003133.html Neil Hewett, 2008
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.