More than 395,000 acres from four of Australia's national parks was returned to the Aboriginal Eastern Kuku Yalanji people in a "historic" agreement, officials announced Wednesday. Among the land is ...

TOWNSVILLE, Australia (AP) — The World Heritage-listed Daintree Rainforest is among four national parks to be handed back to traditional owners in a deal signed with an Australian state government on ...

Australia’s Queensland government has announced that it signed an agreement to return ownership of the Daintree rainforest to its indigenous owners, the New York Timesreports. Daintree, which is a ...

An alarming discovery in Queensland’s Daintree Rainforest has highlighted a massive problem in Australia’s invasive species crisis. Feral pig populations have exploded in recent years, and footage of ...

The rain forest is home to about 430 species of birds, including an estimated 13 that are endemic to the Daintree. There are a total of eight wildlife habitats here -- billabong, open grassland, ...

The peppermint stick insect packs a peppermint-scented blast powerful enough to fend off hungry predators in Australia’s ...

Claire Gely receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Susan Laurance works for James Cook University that runs the Daintree Rainforest Observatory. Susan Laurance has received ARC funding ...

I’ve just returned from Australia’s Silky Oak Lodge where my idea of an eco-lodge was turned on its head. Maybe it was because I could splash in the warm waters of the tropical Mossman River under the ...

The rainforest is among nearly 400,000 acres of land in northeast Australia that were handed back on Wednesday to Aboriginal people who have lived in the region for thousands of years. By Daniel ...