Rainforest thickets are scattered throughout the Kimberly Region of Western Australia and provide a unique habitat for wildlife. Approximately 1,500 remnant rainforest pockets occur along the coast in areas of heavy rainfall and in protected locations, containing about 25% of the Kimberley’s 2,000 species of plants. Although found primarily in the north west Kimberley, the rainforest pockets also extend down the Dampier Peninsular as far south as Broome and are the only rainforests in Western Australia; in fact their existence was not recognised until 1965.

The average rainforest pocket is 3ha. These rainforest pockets support a wide range of species of flora and associated fauna such as the Scaly-tailed possum that do not occur elsewhere in Western Australia. Many small invertebrate species are unique to Kimberley rainforest pockets.