In Tasmania's Valley of the Giants grow the biggest left standing. Some people speculate that a tree of more than 100 metres, the length of a football field, may well remain somewhere beside the Styx River. It could even top the current world's tallest tree, a giant redwood in California, which is 111 metres high. The Valley of the Giants is more than trees. At night its forest floor is alive with the scampering of wallabies, bandicoots, pygmy possums, echidnas and Tasmanian devils.
Rare pink robins nest near the river, which is home to platypus and mountain trout.
High up in the canopy next Tasmania's endangered wedgetailed eagles and white goshawks, as well as possums, bats and gliders. But the Valley of the Giants is being destroyed. Large chunks have already been cut down, including huge trees which took many centuries to grow. Ninety percent of the logs are trucked out and sold as woodchips to Japanese paper mills. Not a leaf, furry creature or flower of the original forest is left alive.