heavily visited parts are Dorrigo National Park and the Natural Bridge section of Springbrook National Park. Destruction The region was historically logged extremely heavily, to such an extent that only 1% of the original range of the Gondwana rainforest remains in Australia. Most of the logged regions have been taken over by eucalyptus forest. During the 2019-2020 Australian bushfire season, many regions of the Gondwana rainforest were devastated by bushfires for the first time, with some preliminary reports indicating that up to 53% of the forests may have burned as of January 2020. Among the devastated habitats are several locations that are significant for some critically imperiled species, such as the nightcap oak and the giant barred frog. The presence of these devastating blazes in areas that have never burned before has been linked to the encroachment of the flammable eucalyptus trees into the logged areas adjoining the forests. The general claim of "never burned before" has been challenged by several commentators, based on an article in The Cairns Post on 25 October 1951 that reported a "fire has burnt out about 2000 acres of thick rainforest country" in the Lamington National Park. Australian National Heritage List sections The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia are divided into sections for listing on the Australian National Heritage List, from north to south, as below: See also Environment of Australia Forests of Australia List of World Heritage Sites in Australia Mount Banda Banda Rainforest Way, a tourist drive featuring the Gondwana rainforests of south-eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales References Attribution External links World heritage listing for Gondwana Rainforests of Australia Introduction to Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Sites in New South Wales World Heritage Sites in Queensland Protected areas of Queensland Protected areas of New South Wales Tourist attractions in Queensland Australian National Heritage List Forests of New South Wales Forests of Queensland Great Dividing Range Protected areas established in 1986 1986 establishments in Australia New South Wales State Heritage Register Articles incorporating text from the New South Wales State Heritage Register Eastern Australian temperate forests