A tiger handler who wrangles the big cats at a theme park on Queensland's Gold Coast will track the animals in their natural environment over the next couple of weeks.
Dreamworld's Cameron Davidson will join rangers at a national park on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
He says he will help to map the range of the critically endangered sumatran tiger and educate local people about the need to conserve the species.
Mr Davidson says he is confident he will cope with the challenging environment.
"Lots of leeches and a few ticks and poisonous snakes and spiders and centipedes," he said.
"There's the chance of malaria and all those funky little diseases that are out there.
"But I do the best preparation I can and I am over there with guys who are from the local area, who have grown up in that environment and I put so much trust in them and hopefully I will learn off them."
Mr Davidson says the jungle conservation work is vital to the sumatran tiger's survival.
"If they come across poaching camps they will destroy them; if they come across traps they will de-snare the traps and destroy them," he said.
"They are talking to the local people, going, 'look these animals if you preserve them we can use that as ecotourism and that can get people into your area and funding into your area and you can make a living from that or benefit from that'."
Meanwhile, the newest arrival at another Gold Coast theme park is swimming strongly.
A pacific bottlenose dolphin was born at Seaworld last Monday.
The calf's sex has not been determined yet but the theme park says it is suckling milk from its 47-year-old mother, Suzy.
