The rainforest of Australia extends from the Kimberleys to Cape York Peninsula and down to Tasmania, in a small strip of land. The forest type ranges from wet and dry tropical to wet cool temperate. Three-quarters of the rainforest in Australia have been wiped out due to white settlement in the past 200 years. Rainforests hand been destroyed to made room for agriculture, and logging has severely depleted the remaining forest so that only the least accessible areas remain intact.

Papua New Guinea's rainforests comprise one of the last major tropical rainforest wildernesses in the world. About 80 percent of Papua New Guinea, or 131,000 square miles, is covered by rainforest; more than half of this area will be logged. Logging had increased significantly in the past decade, including illegal logging. The logging development had also caused much pollution and erosion.

The Solomon Islands also contain a wide variety of rainforest types. Each island has something unique about its environment and its plant and animal life. The forests contain 4,500 species of plants, 230 of which are different varieties of orchids, some not found anywhere else on Earth. There are also over 170 species of birds. Yet, the forests of Solomon Islands now faces mass destruction as logging companies demand more timber. The topsoil of the rainforests washes away if no roots keep it in place; this allows pollution of the water sources in the forest. The destruction will also cause alternating droughts and floods that will initiate a series of starvation and illnesses among the region's indigenous people and the animal species.