Wet Tropics Guides

Name: Wet Tropics Guides
Address: Cairns, QLD, 4870, AU
Telephone: +61742410500

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Wet Tropics Guides provide the best nature based visitor experiences in the Wet Tropics!

We offer information, guidance an advice about making the most of your visit to the Wet Tropics World heritage Area. We are committed to providing the highest quality of interpretation and presentation to visitors and travelers. We seek to offer insights and opportunities to have special encounters, find the hidden gems in natural attractions as well as the chance to learn more about the outstandi

ng universal value of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. We are proud to show case our wonderful World Heritage Area which has been listed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as the second most irreplaceable protected area on earth. The Wet Tropics Tour Guide network provides ongoing professional development for tour guides and other public contact personnel in the tourism industry. It is an open network of like-minded people and interested parties coming together to continually improve the interpretation of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area.

26/08/2023

Hundreds of volunteers are replanting seagrass meadows off Cairns and Mourilyan Harbour. Now, it's hoped the dugongs, turtles and other marine animals that once lived there will return.

23/08/2023

When Patrick Webster heard about purported sightings of the rare buff-breasted button-quail, he followed the clues in a 100-year-old diary to come to a surprising conclusion.

11/08/2023

A group of traditional owners is taking its fight to Canberra in a last-ditch effort to stop the $1 billion Chalumbin Wind Farm from being built adjacent to World Heritage-protected rainforests in Far North Queensland.

13/07/2023

Although rangers complete comprehensive surveys before opening popular Northern Territory swimming holes, they don't guarantee they'll be crocodile-free. Sonar technology and artificial intelligence could help stop attacks.

11/07/2023

There’s no single reason many Asian animals spread to Australia but few went the other way – but climate, geography and the slow drift of tectonic plates all played a role.

10/07/2023

How the pademelon often tricks the world into thinking it is the extinct thylacine, and seven other wild pademelon facts.

06/07/2023

The endangered southern cassowary looks akin to its prehistoric ancestors and there's a national push to save this "beautiful" giant bird from disappearing.

03/07/2023

Coral fields destroyed by weather and bleaching have been growing back at "very successful" rates, thanks to some simple seabed technology and local expertise.

13/06/2023

With only 24 hours in a day, researchers have crunched the numbers and worked out what the average global human day looks like.

09/06/2023

When the rainforests burned, the leaf litter did too – and with it, billions of invertebrates vital to healthy ecosystems.

08/06/2023

Authorities are investigating the decapitations of two crocodiles in weeks, including a decades-old female well-known to tour operators in Queensland's far north.

08/06/2023

The ancestors of kangaroos once lived in the trees – but their evolutionary history is murky. Here’s everything we know so far.

07/06/2023

An American crocodile managed to reproduce by herself, in a process scientists call parthenogenesis, or 'virgin birth', DNA reveals. Scientists say the discovery suggests the phenomenon may have also occurred in extinct reptiles like dinosaurs.

04/06/2023

The giant animal's birthday will be celebrated at its home on Green Island in the Great Barrier Reef.

04/06/2023

Cape Tribulation Beach deadliest in the world? YOU MUST BE JOKING Paul Makin Journalist Email Paul Last updated: 02/06/2023 - 14:00 (AEST) Cape Tribulation beach - a dangerous beach? Picture: Submitted I’m giggling away as I write this story. Initially I thought it was a joke. But we’re past way...

31/05/2023

Fossils dated to 107 million years old have been confirmed as the oldest evidence in Australia of the prehistoric flying reptile that some liken to the mythical dragon.

30/05/2023

The study used a new genetic analysis system that shows dingoes don't have as much dog ancestry as previously studied.

29/05/2023

Queensland's new environment minister will consider the proposal championed by Bob Irwin and the Environmental Defender's Office, after some high-profile incidents that surfaced on social media.

29/05/2023

It's not a quokka or bilby, and there's a reason you've probably never seen a Northern Bettong in the flesh. Here's how Queenslanders are saving the native creature.

26/05/2023

A breeding program to safeguard the future of the brush-tailed rock wallaby is expanding. Conservationists say it's like creating a safe "half-way house" for the endangered species.

16/05/2023

Tour operator Max Jackson said the monitor lizard, which was rarely spotted in Australia, was a calm juvenile that allowed him to interact with it.

15/05/2023

Nimbadon lived 15 million years ago, in forests with flesh-eating kangaroos and tree-climbing crocodiles. Our first look inside their fossilised bones has revealed how these giants grew.

14/05/2023

The public service union says threats are escalating against National Parks and Wildlife rangers trying implement feral horse control programs in alpine NSW.

08/05/2023

The first fatal attack in more than two years reignites debate about rising crocodile numbers in Queensland, but researchers say removing them from waterways is unlikely to prevent attacks on humans.

08/05/2023

The first animal named after David Attenborough, who turns 97 today, was an Australian gecko. But it didn't keep its name for very long. To understand why we need to go back to an infamous scientific kerfuffle.

05/05/2023

The agony caused by brushing against the notorious Gympie-Gympie tree can last for months, but researchers think its toxins may one day provide relief to chronic pain sufferers.

04/05/2023

Megan Wright has a "healthy respect" for the spiders that live around her home north of Cairns, but admits being "very excited — and horrified" when she noticed a big golden orb spider eating a bat caught in its web.

02/05/2023

Fossils billions of years old that show the first signs of life on Earth, and could hold the key to life on other planets, have been nominated for national heritage listing.

02/05/2023

As feral pigs continue to damage agricultural stocks while posing an environmental risk, there are growing calls for statewide snout bounty to reduce their numbers.

28/04/2023

Australia’s plan to create the world’s first nature repair market is a bold move, but it could be a big part of a zero extinction Australia. So there’s every reason to give biodiversity markets a go.

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Cairns, QLD
4870

Telephone

+61742410500

Website

http://www.wettropics.gov.au/tour-guide-training

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