The Nature of Northern Australia: Its Natural Values, Ecological Processes and Future Prospects

Northern

Australia stands out as one of the largest natural areas remaining on Earth-

alongside such global treasures as the Amazon rainforests, the boreal conifer

forests of Alaska and Canada, and the polar wilderness of Antarctica. Nature remains in abundance in ‘the

North.’

Its intact tropical savannas, rainforests, and free flowing rivers provide

a basis for much of the economic activity and the quality of life for

residents of the area.

The Nature of Northern Australia details the latest science on the Northern environment.

With increasing debate over the future of Australia’s often forgotten

North, this is a timely examination of its environmental significance, the

ecological processes that make it function, and the economies that are

compatible with maintaining healthy communities and people and healthy

country into the future.

The authors, Dr. John Woinarski, Professor Brendan Mackey, Professor Henry

Nix and Dr. Barry Traill, are leading experts on the environment of Northern

Australia, and combined have many decades of experience on Northern ecology

and land management.