With three baby elephants due any month now,Melbourne Zoo will let its herd take the lead on how they’re handled – and indeed,where they live.
Beaches north of Sydney want to be the first to ditch shark nets after almost 100 years in favour of newer technology that will have less impact on marine animals.
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Penguins pooing plastic,turtles caught in fishing line,burnt koalas:Taronga Zoo’s vets work hard – and their behind-the-scenes status looks set to change.
Flowers and chocolate may be the traditional Mother’s Day gift,but they may not win the hearts of the mums at Taronga Zoo.
JoAnne Bouzianis-Sellick is part of Australia’s community of “obsessives” who create works in miniature.
The logistics involved in moving a zoo are monumental. Moving an elephant is tricky,too,even when it is a life-size model,as the Museum of Sydney discovered.
Zoos reopening after lockdown have been preparing their animals for post-lockdown exposure to humans.
It took years to plan how to transport hundreds of animals from Sydney’s first zoo to the new Taronga Park facility in 1916.
Taronga Zoo’s plans to build a new reptile exhibit have raised questions about whether its harbourside site is becoming “Disneyfied”.
Tahi Cody and Matt Hayward originally planned a small wedding in Australia followed by another celebration in Europe until the pandemic forced them to reconsider.