<P> The rainforest is named after Richard Daintree, an Australian geologist and photographer (1832 - 1878). </P> <P> The area includes the Daintree National Park, some areas of State Forest, and some privately owned land, including a residential community of upwards of 5 people . Some of the privately owned land north of the Peninsula Range is being progressively purchased for conservation purposes under a $15 million government scheme involving equal contributions from the municipal (Cairns Regional Council), which includes the former Douglas Shire council), State (Queensland) and Australian Federal governments . As of May 2011, 72% of the properties earmarked for buyback or compensation had been secured . These' buyback' areas of tropical rainforest included 215 blocks of land purchased by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, and 13 purchased by private conservation agencies . The Daintree Rainforest contains 30% of the frog, reptile and marsupial species in Australia, and 90% of Australia's bat and butterfly species . 7% of bird species in the country can be found in this area . There are also over 12,000 species of insects in the rainforest . All of this diversity is contained within an area that takes up 0.1% of the landmass of Australia . Part of the forest is protected by the Daintree National Park and drained by the Daintree River . The roads north of the river wind through areas of lush forest, and have been designed to minimize impacts on this ancient ecosystem . </P> <P> The tropical rainforest ecosystem of the Daintree Rainforest is one of the most complex on Earth . Its plant diversity and structural complexity is unrivaled on the Australian continent and represents the origins of other Australian flora . </P> <P> Millions of years ago, the Australian continent was warm and humid and rainfall was plentiful . During this time rainforest thrived in places such as the Uluru (Ayers Rock) region . As Australia became more arid, fewer and fewer places rainforests were able to survive . In the Daintree region, however, the climate and topography were ideal, so the area became a last remaining refuge for the rainforest . Within this refuge, many species were able to live comfortably without reason to change . Their descendants that are still living today retained many of their ancestors' primitive characteristics, some dating back 110 million years . </P>

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