ALAN AND SUSAN CARLE
We commenced our project more than 24 years ago, first a subsistence farm, and more recently (1990) as a private ethno-botanical gardens. We travel the tropical regions of the world and specialise in plants that indigenous rainforest cultures have and still use for their foods, spices, shelter, medicine, cosmetics, fibres, oils, dyes- in fact for all their everyday needs.
- We emphasize the link between plants and peoples and demonstrate it with some of the most unusual and interesting tastes and sights imaginable.
- We aim to educate our visitors to some real values of tropical forests and we aim to help save some of those forests for their peoples.
Philosophy, friends, and future
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Land and Region
The Botanical Ark is located in the northeast of tropical Queensland, Australia, the wettest area of the driest continent on earth. We are neighbours to the world heritage listed Daintree National Park rainforest and only a few kilometres from the Great Barrier Reef.
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 tropical rainforest Queensland |