Mission Beach is Special!
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Mission Beach is special because it has:
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the highest
density of
cassowaries
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- the biggest fan palm forest in Australia
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- the only lava headland in the Wet Tropics
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- the only mangroves growing on basalt soil in the Wet Tropics
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- two World
Heritage Areas
- the Wet Tropics . . .
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. . . and the
Great Barrier Reef |
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- places where the World Heritage areas actually meet
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- the largest suite of mainland fringing reefs between Bowen & Port Douglas
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- the best coast to highlands rainforest corridor in the Wet Tropics
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- habitat for 36% of Australia’s bird species
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- very high diversity of plant and animal species
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- the largest contiguous block of lowland rainforest south of the Daintree
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- 13% of the remaining lowland rainforest in the Wet Tropics
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