The Daintree Rainforest is a coastal rainforest near Daintree, Queensland, which, at around 1,200 square kilometers, is one of Australia's largest chunks of rainforest.

The Daintree Rainforest's addition to the World Heritage List in 1988 in recognition of its universal natural values highlighted the rainforest as being:

• An outstanding example of the major stages in the earth's evolutionary history
• An outstanding example of significant ongoing ecological and biological processes.
• An example of superlative natural phenomena, and
• Containing important and significant habitats for conservation of biological diversity.

The Daintree Rainforest is over one hundred and thirty-five million years old  the oldest in the world. Approximately 430 species of birds live among the trees, including 13 species that are found nowhere else in the world.