An overwhelming diversity of life can be found here. Many different types of habitat make up this peninsula: rain forests, tall open forests, low woodlands, freshwater wetlands, coastal wetlands and mangroves, and monsoonal vine thickets. In the thick, damp rain forests, emerald pythons hang on the branches of kwila trees÷large, attractive trees with bushy crowns and white flowers. Although the thick canopy lets little light in, it is hard to miss male Cape York birdwing butterflies, with their emerald and black coloring and enormous six-inch (15 cm) wingspans, fluttering through the thin understory.
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