The Oldest Rainforest In The World
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- Presenter Ray Mears travels to Australia exploring the landscape and wildlife of the beautiful country. Traveling deep into Queenslands Wet Tropics rainforest, he searches for the prehistoric flightless bird the cassowary and the tree kangaroo.
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great video, thank you for sharing 🙂 kudos!
Thanks for watching! 🥳
Such a good host. I really appreciate a nature documentary that isn't just over-dramatic narration and music. Ray Mears just goes around admiring things and it's so enjoyable to watch.
As a 1990s uk scout we deemed u as a legend! So happy to see u still truckin!
You captured the beauty of this stretch of country very well ❤ an extremely special place
I've lived here 50 years and haven't yet seen the tree kangaroo in the wild. I really hope I do before I die, I've only seen two cassowaries in the wild, an astonishing animal.
Have you ever been to Etty Bay caravan park? It's council run, big trees on the beach, only the caravan site there. They give you covers for your mirrors as the Cassowaries peck at them. I had one lean over my shoulder as I was cooking, there are quite a few there, more than the Daintree.
i live in the rainforest and have had the good fortune of a cassowary with his chicks in our loungeroom.
Congratulations to photographer Martin on the tree kangaroo video capture! It starts @15:56, but continues after that with spectacular video of this seldom photographed tree-dwelling kangaroo. What an awesome little creature! Well done, Sir!!
@21:04 that little zebra-striped cassowary chick was so cute. When he holds still, he's very well camouflaged in that dappled light.
I really love your documentaries. Thank you for these informative and enjoyable productions. You're one of my top 5 favorite channels. :^) I subscribe to many hundreds, perhaps even a couple thousand TH-cam channels. Your content is AWESOME, and I always learn something new from each one I watch. I'm really into ones like this that are about nature/animals/places.
The fan (or fern, as I can’t quite understand your accent hehe) palm..🥰 the 90degrees and the centuries it’s been growing and as you said has the tenacity to keep going and reaching up towards the light, this really encouraged me. Going through some trying things, so grateful to my beautiful plant friends and to you for sharing their encouragement and love and strength with me🥰🥰
It is a palm tree of the species Licuala, one of natures great ancient survivors, and a inspiration to all of us indeed my friend.
Great documentary, in 4k it would be even more impressive on the tele.
Absolutely incredible and thank you for sharing this amazing video presentation with us. SIDE NOTE: I hope this slice of paradise is protected by Australian government 🇦🇺
Much of the area is protected as either a National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, or is privately owned and protected 😊
@@TRACKSTravelDocs
Awesome news and always nice to know. 🇨🇦
@@ivannovotny4552 do you think of a Komodo dragon could evolve into megalania a second time because maybe that’s what people are seeing out there
@@jamessparkman6604 Great question. Seems like every day another animal gets spotted using tools or another species of ape is described as entering their Stone Age. Evolution might just occasionally take great leaps when we aren't looking making us believe we know all about it when we see it ticking along slowly like a pendulum grandfather clock. Changes in the environment almost too subtle for us to notice may exert disproportionate pressure on an organisms genome to cause adaptation of diet, range, or, indeed, size, etc.
no billiy can till the white man, Daintree is an amazing place
Such an incredible land.
What an absolutely amazing video!! Thank you!!!❤
Thank you so much for watching!! ✨
This is a great video! I can imagine how earthy and clean the air is there. I can also imagine primordial peoples hunkering down among those buttresses, avoiding predators while hunting for their own foods. As for myself, I wouldn't survive a night in that forest because I simply don't know enough about it. Thanks for sharing!
12,000 years ago all cretaure live in abundance and there was no concept of time, Saturn was the sun. Uniformitarianism is a masonic lie.
Thanks for sharing this great video and and with excellent host Ray Mears. I love to see more new video with Ray Mears as the host.
Love this!!! Such a wonderful place. Lots of cool indigenous species to study. Thx a lot. ❤
So fascinating that this animals are so friendly with human. Love this documentary.
Wonderful! As an English teacher, I love using such videos for vocabulary building and listening-understanding skills enhancement.
Amazing Australia 🇦🇺
I was totally fascinated by this documentary... Wonderfully done!
So beautiful i love jungle 👍🏻💚🌱🌴🌿🦋🌺
Super awesome video! Thanks!
😇💜 Thank YOU for sharing this adventure with us.🦎🌴🐍🤗
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wonderfull docu👏👏👏💚Greetings from Costa Rica from one of the countries with the "newest rainforest"💚
Fabulous video!
Beautiful video, great sound quality. I love to be in the rainforest canopy, especially at night when many nocturnal animals come out to forage.
Your intro made me proud to be born here 💕☺️
Uncle Ray. Legend thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
To think I visited Queensland for months surfing back in the 80's and never knew about this. Fascinating!
Not much surf up here sorry to say
@@josephwinder6878 We went North as far as Noosa Heads and caught it epic by chance (before surf forecasts). But it would have been a nice side trip to see your lovely place up there!
@@scottc3165 You were so so close, only a a quick little jaunt about a 20hrs drive to the nth.
@@phuckpootube6231 Wow. 20 hours. Oz is a big place. Way more diverse than outsiders give it credit for.
Australia, my dream country 😢
Such a great adventure
i love ray mears
Amazing!!
Excellent!
This is great! I am planning a trip there in November of 2023. I would like to hear from you with any tips on getting around, etc.
amazing
Wooow😊❤ i love rainfarests . 🎉
to be honest, due to it's small size, I never thought that Australia has the oldest rainforest.
You gotta see it to believe it 👍 stunning country we live in. ✌️
Hes really whispering in front of the Cassowary after just arriving on a quad bike
That is OnE of the most AmazinG tree's I've ever seen And I've Seen allot of real cool tree's,,,, But the routes on that tree was
impressive! tO say the very least.
THANK YOU,, for this AmazinG
Tour.
I feel like I was right there with
yoU.💞✌🏼😍
Hello Mate!
I came across this episode a little late. But so glad I did. Compliments on your appreciation and wonder for the living Earth. I envy your work. (Ready for a career change) 😅
Keep ‘em’ coming sir!
.. seen a green ant for the first time 😊
I go picking native flowers for my bird and often get bitten by them, bit annoying but not lethal, You can eat them too.
I like tree buttresses and i cannot lie, no other brother can deny. Ray Mears walks in with an itty bity grin and a buttress in my face.
SNAKES LOVE INSIDE OF TREES
I'm pretty sure the temperate rainforest of South western Tasmania are older, they date back to Gondwana land and have the oldest tree's on the planet.
nope. The region referred to as the ‘Daintree Rainforest’ covers an area of approximately 1200 square kilometres and extends from the Daintree River, north of Cooktown and west to the Great Divide. It is the oldest intact lowland tropical rainforest in the world, thought to be around 180 million years old.
@@EIBozo the Daintree is a Tropical rainforest not a cold temperate rainforest like the west coast of Tasmania, totally different
@@EIBozo Lomatia tasmanica or the King's Holy is the oldest living plant in the world and is believed to be between 43,000 and 135,000 years old 🤷
The best island in the world, with the best people 👍🏽🇦🇺💚
21:14 "It [cassowary] has a reputation for being aggressive - but like most animals, if you don't corner it, it will be fine". This is dangerously inadequate advice. Male cassowaries are _very_ territorial and potentially aggressive to humans during breeding season (usually June to October). If you happen to visit Queensland's wet tropics region as a tourist, keep a very respectful distance from cassowaries at all times. You can look, but _do not_ attempt to interact with them in any way. If you do attract their attention and they start walking your way, get behind a tree and out of the cassowary's sight. Cassowaries are naturally solitary animals (except for breeding season, they don't even associate with other cassowaries). So an approach by a cassowary is never a friendly gesture, it's their way of letting you know you need to get out of their territory.
They're just cassowary of humans, don't cassoworry about it.
Yes there's an old headstone in Port Douglas cemetery stating the boy had been kicked to death by a cassowary.
what is that plant in the thumbnail called, I NEED TO KNOW
It's called crows ash
It is a Buttress Root or a plank root, they are large, wide roots on all sides of a shallowly rooted tree!
@@TRACKSTravelDocs that's the name of the tree?
The buttress root is a feature of the tree not the name of the tree @@TRACKSTravelDocs the butre
It seems to me, that Ray is one of the Prima-Donna's who wants to have his face to be seen as often as possible. It spoils the otherwise fine photography.
I believe the growth rate of that species of fan palm was overstated by a bit. Absolutely slow growing at 1inch or 2-3centimeters of trunk height per year. Licuala ramsayi
God created such amazing animals and trees in this rainforest! Incredible.
I would have like to see some Wollemi pines. Perhaps there exist in a hidden corner of Northern Australia, a carnivorous kangaroo.
Wollemi pines were found further south but were more wide spread in the past. They have been propagated and can even be purchased Australian plant nurseries now. As for other hidden gems or creatures who knows. There still a lot or remote wilderness here. There have some claims of possible Thylacine and Thylacoleo sightings. I for one hope they may be true.
Wollemi Pines are found in New South Wales, in a small restricted area.
If you had asked a local they would have told you to go to Mission Beach or Etty Bay - both areas have cassowary’s and at Etty Bay you will see them everyday. Oh and even if you don’t disturb them they WILL attack you if they think you have food or are near their chicks. They have a very long nasty middle toe which will disembowel you. I get your doing a bit on rainforests but the rainforest meets the sea at Etty Bay.
Yeah that's the same as Cape tribulation. Where the rainforest meets the reef.
Wow, I just stumbled on this channel, and I will continue to keep an eye out for other video's. One of my biggest concerns is the fundraiser on the right. I don't know how anyone could support such things unless prof is given about how much really goes to the children you are scalping money for... Remember the "Own a piece of Scotland be a Lord", even if your last name is Wang, Fuch Do, or Vlad the Impaler...
Good God that looks like the perfect place for a city
I want to climb all the trees
I thought the Borneo Rainforest was the oldest!
Nup
"Cassowaries are notoriously difficult to find." You could have fooled me. We ran into one at a Children's petting zoo. It was well sequestered away from the bunnies and lambs but it was still surprising to walk past the pen and realize what kind of a monster they had lurking there between the baby goats and the snack bar. Children, behave!
In the wild!!!
Not very difficult to find in the wild.
Watch out for any stingrays
pretty sure they don't live in Rainforests
@@plaskoal5679 They're called tree rays. Just as dangerous as drop bears.
@@redplanet7163 😂 I can just feel the confusion for overseas viewers.😂
You won't find one in the rainforest mate
6 min 14 sec. in FOREIGN GINGER.
16:38
?????
The video title threw me off a bit. Great video nonetheless.
Appreciate the work done by people on the ground, but I do wish the producers had used birdsong from the birds that live in the forest shown instead of birds that live in eastern North America. The songs in this video may sound exotic to Australian viewers, but they are VERY familiar to North American viewers. It's a missed opportunity. I would so love to have heard a soundtrack that included your birds' voices, especially birds from this special, particular place.
That's what it sounds like here mate.
As a 50 year resident I can assure you those bird sounds are not exotic to us, they're real,
Thank you! My apologies, then!
And who cut it down? Annunaki. And they're still here, cutting down our forests and more.
LOL okay 🤡👌
Even if that hypothesis was true that place is older than that.
@@raclark2730 And we are half the size we were a few hundred years ago.
Bro.. You said the palm tree was a 1,000 years old. That's not accurate.
You could say it was a bit of a 90 degree stretch.
I'm wondering where aboriginals got billy cans from to boil green ants.
Zoo
God made so many Amazing creatures. Just beautiful and unique. Answers in Genesis channel have so e great nature videos too. ❤️
I pay for premium. Dropping a ad was not smart. I'll never watch another one of your videos again.
Totally agree !!
Wrong. Borneo is the oldest rainforest. Scamm
Borneo rainforest are only 130 million years old while Daintree rainforest are around 180 million years old
The region referred to as the ‘Daintree Rainforest’ covers an area of approximately 1200 square kilometres and extends from the Daintree River, north of Cooktown and west to the Great Divide. It is the oldest intact lowland tropical rainforest in the world, thought to be around 180 million years old. Borneos rainforest are younger
Is the fundraiser for the forest or Ukraine?? They getting enough money so I'm confused here if it is & why is it under this video at that tho?🤔👀 Smh
If you're wondering why this forest is so small, it's because the local pyromaniacs lit fires for the past 100000 years. Then the last bit was ruined by white settlers with their hooved animals destroying the creek beds and washing the last of the topsoil out to sea. It was mostly the locals though. .006 is all that remains due to luck and the shape of the land. Caring for country is the biggest disrespect comment you could say in this continent. It never existed. More like 'self preservation above all else'.
Caring for country is NOT the biggest disrespect comment you could say here. I think you covered that area well with your dubious directed commentary. And your lack of knowledge about burning, where it was done, and why, is evident in a comment about us destroying rainforest.
Your comment here has an agenda that reminds me of the same fear and hate lies that were orchestrated when "the Voice" was crushed till its beauty was made to look like a threat.
It’s a shame these documentaries rarely include indigenous people and their 50,000+ years of knowledge. Descriptions of this place as wild or exotic, and a clear focus on colonial narratives really reduce the scope of knowledge available on these lands and animals.
I have to admit that Australia 🇦🇺🇦🇺 is one of the most fascinating ajd best countries to both visit and live in somehow except that the nation were host to many fatal animals. 😊❤
Embarrassed to say I've never even heard about this tree kangaroo 🦘 it's is amazing