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Mabi forests (also known as (Complex Notophyll Vine Forests ) 5b〔(Department of Environment and Heritage (2004) ''Mabi Forest'' Nationally Threatened Species and Ecological Communities Information Sheet ) Accessed 17 March 2009〕) are a type of critically endangered, indigenous Australian ecological community, remnant patches of which can only be found on some of the fertile (nutrient rich) basalt soils of either North Queensland's Atherton Tablelands, or at (Shiptons Flat ) (aka ''Kuna''〔(Hershberger, Henry & Hershberger Ruth (1986) "''Kuku Yalanji Dictionary'' Summer Institute of Linguistics. Darwin" ) Accessed 16 March 2009〕), along the Annan River〔(Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (2007) ''Inclusion of ecological communities in the list of threatened ecological communities under section 181 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999'' ) Accessed 17 March 2009〕 A Threatened Species Scientific Committee charged with advising on the conservation status of native species and ecological communities recommended the remnant Mabi forests be listed as "critically endangered" for the following reasons:〔
The name ''"Mabi"'' is a locally indigenous Dyirbal and Yidiny language name for the Lumholtz tree kangaroo〔 The name "Mabi forest" was given to this particular type of ecological community, as it is a forest type and habitat that supports high populations of Lumholtz tree kangaroos (aka ''Mabi'')〔 ==Distribution== Mabi forests are confined to the Atherton Tableland (with the exception of small remnant patch at Shiptons Flat). Botanist Tony Irvine writing for Trees for the Evelyn and Atherton Tablelands Inc in 2004, described their distribution, then, as follows:
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