Wildlife Parks, Eco-Accommodation, Wildlife Tours
in Australia or led by Australian Operators

Australia is different!  According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 87% of Australia’s mammals, 45% of its birds, 93% of its reptiles, 94% of its amphibians, 85% of the inshore fish in southern, temperate-zone waters, and 86% of vascular plants are endemic: that is, they are found nowhere else.

Australian habitats include snow-capped mountains, mountain heaths, tropical rainforest, Eucalyptus forests and woodlands, sandy or stony deserts, low arid shrublands,salt lakes, freshwater lakes,  desert grasses, tropical and subtropical coral reefs, species-rich temperate marine habitats, and more, with many variations on each. The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem, with a high diversity of species and associated habitats.

Finding wildlife experiences offered by our members and others 

Including tours, eco-accommodation,wildlife parks etc. plus some general information about the various regions

.Also, click here for a map showing the spread of member businesses throughout Australia offering accommodation, wildlife attractions and tours (note, the map  shows only the location of the tour operation offices: see other pages to find where their tours actually go)

 

Other information about Australia

Quokka, Rottnest Island. 

Wildlife: 

Find many facts about the ecology, behaviour and evolutionary relationships of our wildlife, where you might see them, and how you can help them,  on the sub-menus under the Wildlife menu at the top of the page.

 

 

 

Cities and other major locations

The map shows some of the best-known localities in Australia.

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Areas recognized as biodiversity “hotspots”

These are regions of high numbers of species and/or diversity of habitats.

http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/conservation/hotspots/national-biodiversityhotspots

 

 

 

 

 

Major fauna/flora/climate regions 

An approximation of he Australian climatic and biogeographic regions classified by Burbidge in the Australian Journal of Botany, 1960:

  • Tropical – technically everything above the Tropic of Capricorn is in the tropics, but this refers to the wetter regions of high summer rainfall and the associated fauna and flora
  • The  McPherson MacLeay overlap (the smudged mid-green area halfway up the east coast is called), an overlapping subtropical area of tropical and temperate elements conveying a high biodiversity to the region,
  • Temperate – generally cooler and with wet winters and dry summers.
  • Interzone – gradation or mingling Eremaean and other elements
  • Eremaean – roughly corresponds with what we think of as “the outback” – deserts and other arid or semi-arid areas with low and highly unpredictable rainfall, and the fauna and flora adapted to this.

  See http://www.publish.csiro.au/bt/BT9600075