Beach scrub is a common term for vegetation categorised as Littoral Rainforest and Coastal Vine Thickets. It features many different trees, scrubs, vines, ferns and mosses. Patches of beach scrub occur within a few kilometres of the coast, near estuaries or on islands.

Brigalow (Acacia harpophylla) is a hardy species of wattle tree that grows to 25 meters high. At the time of European settlement, dense brigalow land stretched across a 6.5 million hectare belt from Charters Towers to northern NSW.

Found only on a few headlands from Stockyard Point to Shoalwater Bay on the Capricorn Coast, this small bushy shrub is listed as vulnerable under the Australian Government’s EPBC Act.

The Capricorn Caves fern survives in thin pockets of soil in the walls and floors of limestone caves, sometimes deep within the cave where light penetrates only occasionally.

Endangered under Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 […]

Endangered under Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. […]