The World Health Organization has built an arial walkway high up in therainforest of Ivory Coast close to thesite of an ebola outbreak in chimpanzees four years ago.
In the far southwest of the hinterland, Lamington National Park is a Unesco World Heritage Site and protects the largest area of undisturbed subtropical rainforest remaining in southeast Queensland.
The Blue Mountains national park is a World Heritage site and covers a million hectares, with huge cliffs, deep rainforest gulleys, sandstone canyons and waterfalls.