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Billabong Zoo
31°27′32″S 152°49′12″E / 31.459°S 152.820°E / -31.459; 152.820
Date opened	1986
Location	Port Macquarie NSW
Land area	10 acres (4.0 ha)
No. of species	30+
Memberships	Zoo and Aquarium Association
Website	www.billabongzoo.com.au

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.

History

The park was opened in 1986, and was a major breeding centre for koalas. Starting in 2005, new ownership of the park has seen it move from simply breeding koalas to a more common wildlife park.

Exhibits

The park contains a number of native and exotic animals.

• African lion
• Bare-nosed wombat
• Black-handed spider monkey
• Blue-and-gold macaw
• Blue-fronted amazon
• Bush stone-curlew
• Cheetah
• Common death adder
• Common marmoset
• Cotton-top tamarin
• Dingo
• Eastern grey kangaroo
• Eastern quoll
• Emu
• Fennec fox
• Fijian crested iguana
• Glossy black cockatoo
• Green and golden bell frog
• Green iguana
• Indian star tortoise
• Koala
• Little penguin
• Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo
• Meerkat
• Orange-bellied parrot
• Pygmy bearded dragon
• Red panda
• Red-necked wallaby
• Saltwater crocodile
• Snow leopard
• Southern cassowary
• Southern hairy-nosed wombat

Facilities

The park also contains picnic barbeques, gardens, and billabongs (small lakes) covered with water lilies and stocked with koi carp and a visiting speckled longfin eel. It also features a café in the main entrance building.

Education

The park has a number of education talks through the day including a koala photo session.

Conservation

The park breeds koalas to send to other zoos in the Australasian breeding program.

In 2011 the park joined the Zoo and Aquarium Association and has participated in a number of species management programs including koalas and snow leopards.

See also

• Taronga Zoo

References

1. "Member Location Map". zooaquarium.org.au. ZAA. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
2. "Billabong Koala & Wildlife Park". au.totaltravel.yahoo.com. TotalTravel. Archived from the original on 5 December 2010. Retrieved 29 December 2010.
3. ^ Billabong Koala Park. "Attractions". Archived from the original on 16 February 2011. Retrieved 26 December 2010.
4. Ian Walker (13 November 2015). "Australia's latest arrivals are a bunch of cheetahs". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
5. Ian Walker (13 November 2015). "Australia's latest arrivals are a bunch of cheetahs". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
6. Zoo Aquarium Association. "Taxon Advisory Group Koalas". ZAA. Archived from the original on 12 August 2011. Retrieved 26 December 2010.

External links

• Media related to Billabong Koala and Wildlife Park at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website

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