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The Koala Park Sanctuary is a privately owned and run Australian wildlife park on 10 acres in West Pennant Hills, a northern suburb of Sydney. The park is known for its collection of koalas and other Australian animals and is set in a rainforest-like area. It exists to show Australian native animals and birds and teach the public about them.
Wild Life Sydney Zoo (formerly Sydney Wildlife World) is a wildlife park in the Darling Harbour precinct, on the western edge of the Sydney central business district, Australia. Opened in September 2006, the zoo is located adjacent to a leisure and retail precinct that includes the Sea Life Sydney Aquarium and Madame Tussauds Sydney .
Billabong Zoo is a 10-acre (4.0 ha) wildlife park and koala breeding centre located in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia. It was opened in 1986, and features a wide variety of Australian and exotic animals. [2]
Featherdale Wildlife Park is a zoo located in Doonside, Sydney, Australia. The park is located in Sydney's west, approximately 40 km (25 mi) from Sydney's CBD. The park contains various species native to Australia, and is known to be one of the world's largest collections of Australian fauna. The facility provides displays, events and ...
The first successful efforts at conserving the species were initiated by the establishment of Brisbane's Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary and Sydney's Koala Park Sanctuary in the 1920s and 1930s. The owner of the latter park, Noel Burnet, became the first to successfully breed koalas and earned a reputation as the foremost contemporary authority on ...
Rogue the koala has quickly become an internet sensation after British photographer Ross Long snapped a photo of the 5-year-old marsupial during a visit to the Queensland sanctuary.
The sanctuary is a permanent home to over 70 species of Australian mammals, birds and reptiles such as kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, wombats, crocodiles, goannas. parrots and cassowaries (and also meerkats from Africa). In addition, the natural billabong (lake) at the center of the sanctuary is host to many visiting animals, some of which will ...
Kuranda Koala Gardens, Kuranda; Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Brisbane; Paradise Country, Oxenford; Rainforestation Nature Park, Kuranda; Rockhampton Zoo, Rockhampton; Snakes Down Under Reptile Park and Zoo, Childers; Wild Life Hamilton Island, Hamilton Island [3] Wildlife HQ Zoo, Big Pineapple Woombye, Sunshine Coast; Wildlife Habitat, Port Douglas