80% of all the world's insects live in tropical rainforests! If you're scared of insects you probably don't want to visit the Daintree Rainforest; around 12,000 species of insects live there! ("About the Daintree Rainforest" n.d).
A colonist named George Elphinstone Dalrymple found a river in this area in 1873 and named it and the region after a close friend, Richard Daintree; a British geologist ("About the Daintree Rainforest" n.d).
The Daintree Rainforest is estimated to be the oldest tropical rainforest of all time; about 130 million years old ("About the Daintree Rainforest" n.d).
This remarkable area has 920 different kinds of trees! ("About the Daintree Rainforest"n.d).