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| Tasmania’s eucalypt forests have the highest diversity of plants and animals of all of Tasmania’s habitats and they occur from the sandy soils of the coast to the snowy alpine peaks. Half the eucalypt species on this island are found nowhere else in the world. |
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Undergrowth The forest understorey can be dense and in wetter areas, ferns, mosses, lichens and fungi thrive around the bases of huge eucalypt trees. The largest living carnivorous marsupial, the Tasmanian devil, is the most fabled member of the forest floor community. This kingdom was once shared with the Tasmanian tiger or thylacine, but prolific hunting drove the thylacine extinct in 1936. |
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