Robin Williams

And they can watch on the restored earth.

landscape the size of a telescope or more how the planted saplings grow so much better and they can see after one or two years bingo they've done it and so they're really excited by that and young people aren't supposed to be excited by anything that takes any long-term application

Now, you said you went away for a bit, and of course you went away to a place like the Amazon.

How much did that experience of those completely, I would imagine, different forests influence what you're doing here?

I remember further south they were protecting what they called the remnants of the Gondwanan rainforest somewhere in northern New South Wales, for example, near the rivers.

Is the same sort of thing to be applied to where we are now in just beyond Cairns?

Is that Gondwanan remnant?

What do you think the rest of Australia needs to know more than the name of the Daintree, for example, about this sort of heritage you've just described?

Unless you save it with your friends.

Susan Lawrence, Professor of Tropical Ecology, in touch with the world from Northern Queensland.

And of course, one of the soundtracks of Northern Australia is that beautiful symphony of insects, and crickets in particular are known for their songs.

But research has emerged over the past couple of decades that suggests that crickets can also feel pain.

Tom White is an entomologist at the University of Sydney, and he's just had a study out about this.

A cricket.

that we might see jumping around the house.

How do you tell if that can experience pain?

What sort of tests do you do?

Oh, OK, rightio.

OK, so it's kind of like, I don't know, imagine...

smacking your funny bone and you're going to go, oh, and you hold your arm to your body.