As Wild as Life gets!
Crikey! It's as wild as life gets at Australia Zoo's new open-range exhibit - Africa! Open NOW you can see the only multi species exhibit in Queensland.
Step on board the FREE* Africa Safari Shuttle and experience the only Giraffe and Zebra in Queensland and keep your eyes peeled for our brand new baby Rhino!
Crikey Cam!
Check out Crikey Cam, our latest and greatest way for you to enjoy everything that's amazing and thrilling at Australia Zoo! Crikey Cam is the idea behind our new TV advertising campaign, but it's even more than that. It's a brand new window to the inner workings of Australia Zoo, offering a fresh and unique perspective on what our awesome animals, keepers and visitors get up to every day! Crikey Cam - it's all up close and personal, it's a thrill a minute, and it's as wild as life gets!
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Terri, Bindi and Robert welcome new babies into Australia Zoo family!
23 May 2013
Terri, Bindi and Robert Irwin made a special announcement from Australia Zoo today.
"We're so excited today to announce very special news at Australia Zoo. We have a brand new baby rhino born on May 4. He weighed a whopping 70kg and is now getting... -
Steve inspires counter poachers
29 April 2013
Former Australia Zoo volunteers Zach and Morgan Cooney make a dynamic duo as they fight rhino poaching in Africa. Morgan reports from the field on their journey to become Wildlife Warriors.
Spreading the message
For all our lives, my brother Zach... -
Pandas and tigers and bearcats - A behind the scenes experience like never before!
02 April 2013
Check out our new Zoo Crew Experience, a sensational wildlife encounter available these Easter school holidays.
It's a behind-the-scenes experience like never before as you join our Asia section keepers on their morning rounds, helping to prepare... -
Meet Mango!
12 March 2013
Wooo-hoo! We're excited to announce the name of our newest baby rhino: Mango.
Terri, Bindi and Robert chose the name, suggested by Megan Wright via our Facebook naming competition, after reading about Megan's daughter who picked up a mango and said... -
William and Josh Growing Up Fast
01 February 2013
It seems like just yesterday that we first set eyes upon our two new cheetah cubs. It has been almost a whole year since then, and William and Josh are growing up fast!
They came to us from South Africa, from a conservation breeding facility near... -
Be Prepared for a wildlife adventure!
08 January 2013
8000 Scouts descend on Australia Zoo
An already-packed Crocoseum has been inundated with a sea of green this week, with thousands of Scouts visiting Australia Zoo as part of the 23rd Australian Scout Jamboree (AJ2013).
About 8000 enthusiastic...
- Adopt Rosie the Giraffe
- Adopt Forrest the Giraffe
- Adopt Penny the Giraffe
- Adopt Sally the Giraffe
- Adopt Caballe the Southern White Rhinoceros
- Adopt Savannah the Southern White Rhinoceros
- Adopt DJ the Southern White Rhinoceros
- Adopt Jabari the Southern White Rhinoceros
- Adopt Kei the Southern White Rhinoceros
- Adopt Mango the Southern White Rhinoceros
- Adopt Echo the Cheetah
- Adopt Foxtrot the Cheetah
- Adopt Sheeba the Cheetah
- Adopt Josh the Cheetah
- Adopt William the Cheetah
- Adopt Stevie the Zebra
- Adopt Michael the Zebra
- Adopt Zambeze the Zebra
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Cheeky Cheetah Encounter
Check out our cheeky cheetahs up close and personal
Check out our cheeky cheetahs up close on a cheetah encounter!
While you enjoy this amazing experience, one of our professional photographers will capture this incredible... -
Ripper Rhinos
Get face-to-face with a two tonne Rhino in a rare Ripper Rhino Encounter!
What a ripper! Get face-to-face with a two-tonne rhino in this rare, once in a lifetime encounter.
You may even get to give an amazing White Rhino a little scratch and pat in our behind-the-scenes paddocks right here at Australia Zoo while you... -
Giant Giraffe Tour
25% off - For two weeks only!! Now only $60 per person.
You can now take a tour of our amazing Giraffe compound. Go behind the scenes and check out where these guys hang out and have the chance to meet the tallest land animal in existence.
Wooo-hoo! With males reaching heights of 5.5 metres (18 ft) and... -
Cheetah Back of House Tour
An awesome behind the scenes tour of their home
Come check out our Cheeky Cheetahs on an awesome behind the scenes tour of their home. Chat to the keepers and learn all about how amazing the fastest land animal on earth really is. You will get to see them in their enclosure while doing some... -
Cheeky Cheetah Snapshots
Come have a photo with our Cheeky Cheetah
Come have a photo with a Cheeky Cheetah. How many people get the chance to get right up close to a cheetah? Well here at Australia Zoo, you can get so close you may hear them...
The threat
With only 9,000 to 12,000 cheetahs left in the wild, this magnificent species has become critically endangered due to loss of habitat and cheetah-human conflict. Conflict occurs when cheetahs are wrongly blamed for livestock losses and subsequently killed by angry farmers.
How we help
Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors is working in partnership with De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Trust and Cheetah Outreach, both located in South Africa. Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors works with each organisation to support cheetah releases, tracking, monitoring and local education to reduce the cheetah-human conflict.
Through vital research and the facilitation of a cheetah tracking program, De Wildt and Cheetah Outreach have found that the cheetah is a nomadic animal and often only crosses the same property once every two weeks, proving to farmers that a cheetah may not even be in the area when their livestock has been killed.
This information is helping to change the tide and is producing a number of ‘cheetah friendly' farmers. In exchange for a small fee, these friendly farmers contact De Wildt when a cheetah is located on their property, and rather than killing the animal, they assist De Wildt to capture and relocate the cheetah to a safe area.
To date, De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Trust have successfully relocated over one hundred wild cheetah. The cheetah are fitted with a radio collar and tracking system, which send SMS messages containing regular location reports and updates, allowing us to further learn about the habits of this magnificent creature.
Funds raised through Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors also support the Anatolian Shepherd Dog Program, a non-lethal method of managing predators and promoting a much happier co-existence between cheetah and farmer.
The Anatolian Shepherd Dog Program provides farmers with an Anatolian Shepherd dog, a large, noble and powerful livestock guardian. From six weeks of age, these incredibly intelligent and brave dogs are raised exclusively with their herd and trained to protect them from any prying predators. Standing at an impressive 70cm tall, their job is to bark to scare any predator that may come within close range of their flock. Being a timid and shy creature, cheetahs are quick to retreat from a barking dog, resulting in a win-win situation for both the cheetah and farmer. Farmers in South Africa can now allow their dog to guard the livestock and not be encouraged to shoot or kill the cheetah when seen in the area. This program is at no cost to the farmers.
We are proud to assist the efforts of these crucial programs in securing the future of this threatened and truly magnificent big cat.
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Terri, Bindi and Robert welcome new babies into Australia Zoo family!23 May 2013
Terri, Bindi and Robert Irwin made a special announcement from Australia Zoo today.
"We're so excited today to announce very special news at Australia Zoo. We have a brand new baby rhino born on May 4. He weighed a whopping 70kg and is now getting close to 100kg - so we're very proud of that,' said Terri.
The Southern White Rhino calf was born to resident rhino parents, DJ and Caballe (pronounced Ka-ball-ee). He is the third rhino to be born at Australia Zoo and joins older half-siblings Mango (born in February 2013) and Savannah (born April 2011).
The public will have an opportunity to see the new baby boy and his half-sister, Mango, during the June school holidays, beginning on 22 June. The Africa exhibit, which is Queensland's only multi-species exhibit, will show off our new additions as they play and learn all about their new surroundings.
Buy Tickets - Visit Australia Zoo and see the new baby rhinos these June School Holidays!
"We also want to announce we have a giraffe on the way. A baby giraffe will be born here at Australia Zoo before the end of the year, which is a first for Queensland", added Terri.
Australia Zoo has three female giraffes, Sally, Rosie and Penny, and one male giraffe, Forrest. This will be the first offspring for Rosie and Forrest.
Giraffes have a gestation of 14 months and give birth standing up; the impact of hitting the ground stimulates the calf to take its first breath.
Naming competition:
B105 will be running a naming competition from 10 June. Terri, Bindi and Robert will choose the winning name which will be announced on the first day of school holidays (22 June).
Keeping up to date on our expanding Australia Zoo family:
The public can keep up to date on Australia Zoo's expanding family by visiting our website or the Australia Zoo Facebook page. Make sure you 'Like' our page!
Walking Track
Giraffes, rhinos and zebras are now just a hop, skip and a jump away, with a new walking track to Australia Zoo's Africa exhibit opening on Boxing Day.
The new 700m track means our guests have the option to experience the African savannah at their leisure, which will be great for families visiting over the school holidays.
Regular local visitors in particular can also make the most of the new access to the exhibit, which offers different views and corners of the zoo to explore.
Following the 24 acre exhibit's official opening in September the track will link guests from the Tiger Temple in South East Asia to the African savannah.
Safari shuttles to and from the exhibit will continue over the busy holiday period, but the new walking track will provide visitors to the zoo greater flexibility in organising their day.
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As Wild as Life gets!
Crikey! It's as wild as life gets at Australia Zoo's new open-range exhibit - Africa! Open NOW you can see the only multi species exhibit in Queensland.
Step on board the FREE* Africa Safari Shuttle and experience the only Giraffe and Zebra in Queensland and keep your eyes peeled for our brand new baby Rhino!
Steve's dream was to build an African Safari Park, where animals roam free in open plains and state of the art walk-through enclosures; where the public can watch these animals interact as they would in the wild; and where people can have their own unique experiences with these wonderful animals.
You can see one of our three Giraffe: Rosie, Penny or Forrest as they graze the Savannah and use their amazing blue tongues pull leaves from the trees. Be mesmerised as they gracefully explore Africa right in front of your eyes!
Taking visitors on a journey to the African Savannah of Australia Zoo, we will showcase the only active breeding group of Rhinos in Queensland - our first calf was born here in April - in a replica of the exotic animals' natural habitat. You can see the only Rhino calf in Queensland, our little Savannah, run, jump and play with some of our six other adult Southern White Rhinos right in front of your eyes - which is all part of the African experience.
Africa will showcase Queensland Bottle Tree which these trees reflect the native Boabab tree in Africa. Standing, 18 metres tall and believed to be between 80 and 100 years old, and will feature in the new Africa exhibit at Australia Zoo.
Africa is right here in your own back yard. So come on - go WILD with us!
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