Len Webb Ecological Images Collection

Image No. 14-69

Land Use -- Queensland, North -- Wet Tropics Rainforest cleared for beef cattle fattening El Arish to Mission Beach road, Queensland May 1970 Larger image (145K)

Loss of unique biodiversity of these rainforests was not even considered before they were destroyed. World Heritage listing in 1988 of nearby surviving rainforests has converted this land to high value real estate. See comments under Images 3-56, 3-32 and 3-68.
Mesophyll vine forest on soils from metamorphics on humid lowlands.

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