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South-east Queensland will soon have a new zoo.
D’Aguilar Wildlife is located in Wamuran, in the Moreton Bay region (north of Brisbane). This particular region hasn’t had a zoo since Alma Park Zoo closed down a few years ago. Wamuran is around an hour’s drive from Brisbane’s CBD and can be reached via public transport with a bit of walking.
A recent email from D’Aguilar Wildlife mentions that the zoo aims to be open by Easter 2020. The zoo will be posting monthly updates on their progress and opening developments through email (you can subscribe via their website).

Website: D'Aguilar Wildlife

For those interested, I went through their Facebook page and these were the species I noted. Note their Facebook page has been around for a while (since around 2010) and some of these species haven’t been mentioned recently. Also, I’m sure there are many more species that haven’t received a mention on their page that are used as educational animals.

Mammals:
Short-beaked Echidna
Common Wombat (arrived February 2019)
Squirrel Glider
Rufous Bettong
Red Kangaroo
Rakali (Australian Water Rat)
Black-footed Tree Rat
Spinifex Hopping Mice
Capybara (arrived April 2019)
Fennec Fox (arrived June 2019)
Dromedary

Birds:
Southern Cassowary (arrived September 2018)
Emu
Ostrich (arrived December 2018)
Red Junglefowl
Cape Barren Goose
Plumed Whistling Duck
Black Swan
Australian Bustard
Australian White Ibis
Bush Stone Curlew
Banded Lapwing
Pied Stilt
Tawny Frogmouth
Channel-billed Cuckoo
Blue-winged Kookaburra
Laughing Kookburra
Boobook Owl
Masked Owl
Wedge-tailed Eagle
Torresian Imperial Pigeon
Wompoo Fruit Dove
Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (including Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoo C. b. naso)
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
Gang-gang Cockatoo
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Long-billed Corella
Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo
Umbrella Cockatoo
King Parrot
Eclectus Parrot
Double-eyed Fig Parrot
Scarlet Macaw
Blue and Gold Macaw
White-fronted Amazon Parrot
Black-capped Caique
Apostlebird
Java Sparrow

Reptiles:
Saltwater Crocodile
American Alligator
Saw-shelled Turtle
Central Bearded Dragon
Cunningham’s Skink
Shingleback
Rhinoceros Iguana (arrived July 2019)
Perentie
Blood Python (arrived December 2019)
Olive Python
Carpet Python
Boa Constrictor
 
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I believe that the Rakali have left the collection!
 
D'Aguilar Wildlife has sent out an update about their opening via their email newsletter. They now hope to open around the Christmas holidays at the end of this year.
We have received many new followers and a lot of people have been asking when we are due to open. As most of you know we were hoping to open in March/April this year, but with the restrictions we lost our other income streams and our finances were directed to food and essential running costs. This has unfortunately delayed our opening however we are hoping to be back on our feet and able to welcome everyone during the Christmas holidays.
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Scrolling through their Facebook page I noticed a few bits and pieces:

*D'Aguilar Wildlife now have three Fennec Foxes. They originally announced the arrival of 1.1 (Azizi and Belle) last year. This latest post shows three animals (Belle, Kito and Sundai). After a quick search it seems like Kito and Sundai were the two foxes at Mogo Wildlife Park.
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*Their pair of Common Marmosets welcomed a baby back in April. It was the first time the species had bred at the zoo.
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*Satin Bowerbird is now part of the zoo's collection.
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A mention on the zoos Facebook page of a new species which is a first for Queensland but no mention of which species yet!
 
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