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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Gondwana Rainforests of Australia' has mentioned 'Rainforest' in the following places:
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| Gondwana Rainforests of AustraliaUNESCO World Heritage SiteBox Log Falls, Lamington National Park in Queensland.LocationNew South Wales and Queensland, AustraliaCriteriaNatural:xc2xa0(viii), (ix), (x)Reference368bisInscription1986 (10th session)Extensions1994Area370,000xc2xa0ha (1,400xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi)Coordinates28xc2xb015xe2x80xb2S 150xc2xb03xe2x80xb2Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf28.250xc2xb0S 150.050xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / -28.250; 150.050Coordinates: 28xc2xb015xe2x80xb2S 150xc2xb03xe2x80xb2Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf28.250xc2xb0S 150.050xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / -28.250; 150.050Barrington TopsMain Range National Park From the Main Range in the north to the Barrington Tops in the south, various grouping of the Gondwana Rainforests on the Australian continent Australian National Heritage ListOfficial nameGondwana Rainforests of AustraliaTypeNational heritage (landscape)Designated17 December 1994Referencexc2xa0no.105135ClassNaturalLegal StatusDeclared property New South Wales Heritage RegisterOfficial nameGondwana Rainforests of Australia; Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves; Gondwana Rainforests of Australia (new name from 2007); North East Rainforests World Heritage AreaTypeState heritage (landscape)Designated2 April 1999Referencexc2xa0no.1002TypeWildernessCategoryLandscape - Natural | WIKI |
| The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, formerly known as the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves, are the most extensive area of subtropical rainforest in the world. | WIKI |
| Not all Gondwanan rainforests in Australia are located in the New South Walesxc2xa0xe2x80x93 Queensland region; the largest Gondwanan rainforest in Australia is located in Tasmania's Tarkine wilderness. | WIKI |
| The number of visitors to the Gondwana rainforest reserves in New South Wales and Queensland is about 2 million per year. | WIKI |
| The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia is a serial property comprising the major remaining areas of rainforest in southeast Queensland and northeast New South Wales. | WIKI |
| The rainforest reserves have an extremely high conservation value, with more than 200 rare or threatened plant and animal species. | WIKI |
| The region was historically logged extremely heavily, to such an extent that only 1% of the original range of the Gondwana rainforest remains in Australia. | WIKI |
| During the 2019-2020 Australian bushfire season, many regions of the Gondwana rainforest were devastated by bushfires for the first time, with some preliminary reports indicating that up to 53% of the forests may have burned as of January 2020. | WIKI |
| The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia is a serial property comprising the major remaining areas of rainforest in southeast Queensland and northeast New South Wales. | UNESCO |
| The distances between these xe2x80x98islandsxe2x80x99 of rainforest represent barriers to the flow of genetic material for those taxa which have low dispersal ability, and this pressure has created the potential for continued speciation. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (x): The ecosystems of the Gondwana Rainforests contain significant and important natural habitats for species of conservation significance, particularly those associated with the rainforests which once covered much of the continent of Australia and are now restricted to archipelagos of small areas of rainforest isolated by sclerophyll vegetation and cleared land. | UNESCO |
| Following European settlement, clearing for agriculture saw further loss of rainforests and only a quarter of the rainforest present in Australia at the time of European settlement remains. | UNESCO |
| The Gondwana Rainforests protects the largest and best stands of rainforest habitat remaining in this region. | UNESCO |
| Many of the rare and threatened flora and fauna species are rainforest specialists, and their vulnerability to extinction is due to a variety of factors including the rarity of their rainforest habitat. | UNESCO |
| Integrity The Gondwana Rainforests contains the largest and most significant remaining stands of subtropical rainforest and Antarctic Beech (Nothofagus moorei) cool temperate rainforests in the world, the largest and most significant areas of warm temperate rainforest and one of only two remaining large areas of Araucarian rainforest in Australia. | UNESCO |
| In 2000 a Strategic Overview for Management for the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia (now Gondwana Rainforests) World Heritage Area was published. | UNESCO |