tasmania

It has been about a decade since I last went to either Bonorong Sanctuary or Zoodoo Zoo, and given that they’re my local zoos, that’s not good enough! So I visited both on Friday 21 February, and thought I’d do a little write up on what’s changed and improved. Both Zoodoo and Bonorong are...

I wonder if anyone can help at all? My 10 year old is OBSESSED with Tasmanian Devils. We would love to visit a zoo in Europe, this August, which has a programme of some kind. Ideally we would LOVE a zoo keeper type experience, in English for him, where we can just talk to a zookeeper about...

It appears that there's no thread for this one yet, so I've created one. I've had a small conversation with Greg Irons this morning, and can reveal that construction has begun on the new Wildlife Hospital, set to be complete in August this year.

Sorry for the clickbait title, I'm not talking about claimed "sightings" or looking for proof that the animal is somehow not extinct. I'm asking about seeing the animal alive in zoos in the 1930s. Obviously there were people who were alive in the 1930s and saw a thylacine in a zoo, either...

Freycinet National Park, Tasmania. Dec, 2013.

Stanley, Tasmania. Jan, 2014.