Dwindling habitat. Climate change. Mega-bushfires. Koalas face dire threats,yet politicians continue to obfuscate.
The remarkable rescue story of Mr Hobbs,one of the zoo’s two sun bears,helped save 1000 other bears through a conservation effort that captured hearts worldwide.
The NSW government will allocate more than $37 million to a new wildlife hospital at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo in this month's budget.
No branch stacking at Taronga.
Visitors can once again sleep within snoring distance of wallabies,koalas and echidnas,as the Wildlife Retreat lodge reopens in time for the school holidays.
Lion brothers Lwazi and Ato are the star exhibits of Taronga Zoo's new savannah precinct,which focuses on the conservation challenges faced by wildlife in Africa.
Bar owner Daniel Startup is thankful pubs and restaurants can start serving up to 50 customers at one time,but has given a heads up to excited patrons the vibe might be different.
A bilby breeding program at Taronga Western Plains Zoo,which aims to release the marsupials into the wild where they have been extinct for 100 years,is being praised as a huge success.
The coronavirus has torpedoed the world economy,with travel both a vector for – and a victim of – an historic event that appears to have no end in sight.
Apart from a short period in 1917,Taronga Zoo has never closed in its 103 years of operation - but the coronavirus pandemic has forced it online.
Taronga has announced the temporary shutdown of both its Sydney and Western Plains zoos to combat the spread of coronavirus.