Anyone who intends to go to Australia should take into account one very interesting fact. The likelihood that in your home, garden or car parked on the night hiding at least is one spider is one hundred percent. Australia is paradise for those who study spiders, or just feeds the addiction to these creatures. Australia is a fantastic nature reserve, the dream of anyone who is interested in the unusual, of course, in the opinion of the European, flora and fauna. The first scientist to set foot on this state was a botanist Royal Geographical Society Joseph Banks. He was the first report of who presented the Old World with a kangaroo and dozens of unseen plants. Most of the Australian trees are evergreen, and some of them have adapted to drought or fires, such as eucalyptus and acacia. On a continent grows a large number of endemic plants in the family Fabaceae, which can survive on marginal soils. Flora of Tasmania significantly different from the flora of the mainland. In addition to typical Australian eucalyptus trees on the island grows a significant number of tree species, related to New Zealand and South American, particularly the evergreen southern beech. The best-known representatives of the Australian fauna are the monotremes Animals (platypus and echidna), various marsupials (koalas, kangaroos, wombats), and birds such as emus, cockatoos and Kookaburra. Here is the largest number of venomous snakes in the world. Although most of the continent is semi-desert and desert, in Australia there are a variety of landscapes from similar alpine meadows to tropical rainforests. Due to considerable age of the continent, a wide variety of weather conditions and long-term geographic isolation, the biota of Australia is rich and unique. Many ecological regions of Australia and their flora and fauna threatened by human activities and introduced species of plants and animals. The main legal instrument governing the protection of endangered species in Australia is the Act on the Protection of the environment and biological diversity signed in the capital in 1999. In order to protect and preserve the unique ecosystem of Australia in the state is a large number of protected areas. Australia is rich in sight with water and cephalopods. Among the most known species of octopus ranked among the most poisonous animal in the world and a giant Australian cuttlefish, meets every winter for mass mating in one of the bays of the Gulf of Spencer. One of the most picturesque places in Australia is generally accepted that the Northern Territory with it virginal nature: the waterfalls and impassable, mangroves, marshes, and 7-foot crocodiles. Here, in Kakadu National Park, show the most interesting figures in the country natives.