Australia Zoo
{{short description|Zoo located in the Australian state of Queensland}}
{{Use Australian English|date=June 2011}}
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|location = Beerwah, Queensland, Australia
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|area = {{Convert|750|acre|abbr=on}}
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|owner=Terri Irwin|annual_visitors = 700,000
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Australia Zoo is a {{Convert|700|acre|adj=on}} zoo in the Australian state of Queensland on the Sunshine Coast near Beerwah/Glass House Mountains. It is a member of the Zoo and Aquarium Association (ZAA), and is owned by Terri Irwin, the widow of Steve Irwin, whose wildlife documentary series The Crocodile Hunter and his family's new show Crikey! It's the Irwins made the zoo a popular tourist attraction.
Australia Zoo was opened by Bob and Lyn Irwin on 3 June 1970 under the name Beerwah Reptile and Fauna Park. Their son Steve had helped his parents since childhood to care for crocodiles and reptiles and to maintain the growing number of animals in the zoo. In 1982 the park was renamed the Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park and the area was doubled with the purchase of another {{Convert|4|acre}}. Steve and Terri changed the name of their now growing wildlife park to Australia Zoo. As filming generated extra funds, Steve and Terri put all money raised from filming and merchandise into conservation and building new exhibits. Following Steve's accidental death from a stingray, Terri became the new owner of the zoo.
Australia Zoo won the Australian Tourism Awards for 2003–2004 in the category Major Tourist Attraction. In 2004, the Australian Animal Hospital was opened next to the zoo to help with animal care and rehabilitation. In 2010, Australia Zoo won Gold in the Queensland Tourism Awards for Major Tourist Attraction and in 2019, they won the RACQ People's Choice Award – Experience & Services.{{cite web|url=http://www.queenslandtourismawards.com.au/results|title=Queensland Tourism Awards 2016 – Results|website=www.queenslandtourismawards.com.au|access-date=1 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301105731/http://www.queenslandtourismawards.com.au/results|archive-date=1 March 2019|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}} Visitors will see a wide variety of birds, mammals, and reptiles, and can view crocodile feedings, and have hands-on animal encounters.
History
=1970–1992=
Australia Zoo was opened by Bob and Lyn Irwin on 3 June 1970 under the name Beerwah Reptile Park. Bob is a world-renowned herpetologist, who is regarded as a pioneer in the keeping and breeding of reptiles, while Lyn was one of the first to care for and rehabilitate sick and injured wildlife in southeast Queensland. Bob and Lyn passed on their love and respect for wildlife to their three children: Joy, Steve, and Mandy. Steve had helped Bob and Lyn since childhood to care for crocodiles and reptiles and to maintain the growing number of animals in the zoo. In 1982, the park was renamed the Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park and the area was doubled with the purchase of another {{Convert|4|acre|1}}. In 1987, the Crocodile Environmental Park was opened in an effort to aid saltwater crocodile protection. By the 1990s the Crocodile Environmental Park had become very popular and was seen as unique for its display of crocodile feeding within the park. The area was mainly used to house adult saltwater crocodiles that had been captured and relocated from the wild.
=1992–2006=
The 1990s brought many changes: Bob and Lyn retired and moved to Rosedale, Queensland, while Steve and Terri changed the name of their now growing wildlife park to Australia Zoo.{{Cite news|url=https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/australia/articles/steve-irwin-spotlight-on-australias-beloved-crocodile-hunter/|title=Steve Irwin: Spotlight On Australia's Beloved Crocodile Hunter|last=Griffiths|first=Ellie|work=Culture Trip|access-date=11 September 2017|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813105402/https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/australia/articles/steve-irwin-spotlight-on-australias-beloved-crocodile-hunter/|archive-date=13 August 2017|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}} As filming generated extra funds, Steve and Terri put all money raised from filming and merchandise into conservation and building new exhibits. Their philosophy was that the zoo animals came first, the zoo team came second, and the zoo visitors came third. The zoo also expanded with the creation of a management team and hiring around 50 staff. Australia Zoo won the Australian Tourism Awards for 2003–2004 in the category Major Tourist Attraction. In 2004, the Australian Animal Hospital was opened next to the zoo to help with animal care and rehabilitation. The facility was built in an old avocado packing shed, and was dedicated to Lyn. The facility had a single operating room, and with a staff of 20 full-time workers and 80 volunteers, it cared for up to 6,000 animals per year. Steve Irwin died in 2006, the same year Australia Zoo Retail won the Tourism Retailing Award from Qantas Australian Tourism Awards.
=2007–present=
In 2007, the zoo and the Government of Queensland made a land deal involving giving a parcel of land from the Beerwah State Forest to Australia Zoo in return for land near Peachester State Forest which was transferred to the government for forestry. The swap permitted the development of an open-range safari attraction, allowing the zoo to expand to a world-class standard. In 2008, a new $5 million animal hospital, claimed to be the largest wildlife hospital in the world, opened next to the packing shed. The new {{Convert|1300|m2|sqft|-3|adj=on}} facility is built of mud brick and hay. It contains two operating theatres with viewing areas for student veterinarians, two treatment rooms, intensive care units for mammals, birds, and reptiles, a X-ray room, and public areas including a drop-off area, pharmacy, nursery, and waiting room. A conference room in the building will be rented out to help generate operating funds.
On 15 March 2008 the Brisbane-based newspaper, The Sunday Mail, claimed there are plans to sell Australia Zoo to Animal Planet and create a $100-million Disney-style wildlife theme park. Terri has publicly announced that she has no plans to sell the zoo, but is looking to expand the park. Despite rumours that she intended to return to the United States, Terri denied the claims and became an Australian citizen on 20 November 2009.
During the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season, the Wildlife Hospital associated with the zoo treated its 90,000th injured animal.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/04/australia/bindi-irwin-australia-wildfires-hospital-animal-rescue-trnd/index.html|title=The Irwin family has saved over 90,000 animals, including many injured in the Australia wildfires|first=Alaa|last=Elassar|website=CNN|date=4 January 2020 |access-date=2020-01-06|archive-date=2 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002001912/https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/04/australia/bindi-irwin-australia-wildfires-hospital-animal-rescue-trnd/index.html|url-status=live}}
Management
The Australia Zoo business is owned by Australia Zoo Pty Ltd, but the land on which the zoo is located, and most of the surrounding area, is owned by Silverback Properties Pty Ltd.
Animals
Australia Zoo contains a wide range of birds, mammals and reptiles.
;Birds
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- Australian king parrot
- Bar-shouldered dove
- Black-necked stork
- Blue-and-yellow macaw
- Brahminy kite
- Brolga
- Bush budgerigar
- Bush stone-curlew
- Chestnut-breasted mannikin
- Eastern whipbird
- Eclectus parrot
- Emu
- Galah
- Glossy ibis
- Gouldian finch
- Great cormorant
- Green-winged macaw
- Helmeted guineafowl
- Little pied cormorant
- Magpie goose
- Noisy pitta
- Pacific emerald dove
- Pied imperial pigeon
- Radjah shelduck
- Rainbow lorikeet
- Red-browed finch
- Red-collared lorikeet
- Red-tailed black cockatoo
- Rose-crowned fruit dove
- Sacred kingfisher
- Scarlet macaw
- Southern cassowary
- Sulphur-crested cockatoo
- Superb parrot
- Wedge-tailed eagle
- Whistling kite
- White-headed pigeon
- Wonga pigeon
- Yellow-tailed black cockatoo
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;Frogs (Amphibians)
;Mammals
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- Asian small-clawed otter
- Black-flanked rock wallaby
- Brush-tailed rock wallaby
- Cheetah
- Common wombat
- Dingo
- Eastern grey kangaroo
- Giraffe
- Koala
- Meerkat
- Plains zebra
- Quokka
- Red kangaroo
- Red panda
- Red-necked wallaby
- Ring-tailed lemur
- Short-beaked echidna
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat
- Southern white rhinoceros
- Sumatran elephant
- Sumatran tiger
- Swamp wallaby
- Tasmanian devil
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;Reptiles
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- Aldabra giant tortoise
- American alligator
- Black-headed python
- Boyd's forest dragon
- Broad-shelled turtle
- Burmese python
- Coastal taipan
- Common blue-tongued skink
- Common death adder
- Corn snake
- Cunningham's skink
- Eastern brown snake
- Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
- Eastern shingleback
- Eastern water dragon
- Elongated tortoise
- Fijian crested iguana
- Freshwater crocodile
- Frilled lizard
- Gila monster
- Green anaconda
- Indian star tortoise
- Inland bearded dragon
- Inland taipan
- King brown snake
- King cobra
- Komodo dragon
- Krefft's turtle
- Land mullet
- Mertens' water monitor
- Murray River turtle
- Radiated tortoise
- Red-bellied black snake
- Rhinoceros iguana
- Saltwater crocodile
- Saw-shelled turtle
- Scrub python
- Tiger snake
- Woma python
- Yakka skink
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Exhibits
=The Crocoseum=
Image:Guy Sebastian visits Australia Zoo to perform LIVE WILD Concert. Cropped.jpg before a concert in 2009]]
The 'Mount Franklin Crocoseum' stadium at the zoo has a seating capacity of 5,000. It is used mostly for animal shows. At the time of its construction, it was the first in the world where snake, bird and crocodile shows were conducted. Australia Zoo calls this the 'Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors Show'. This is also where the zoo presents concerts, such as the Summer Down Under series.
=Africa=
On 17 September 2011, the zoo opened its African Safari exhibit, a multi-species replica of the Serengeti ecosystem, showcasing giraffes, plains zebra and southern white rhinos' interacting as they would in the wild. Also on display are cheetahs, but not in the area where the other animals are. There is also an exhibit for meerkats next to the big savanna who share their exhibit with wandering helmeted guineafowls. This area of the zoo includes Queensland bottle trees reflecting the native African baobab tree and mock kopjes as seen in southern Africa.
=Tiger Temple=
Opened in April 2005, this exhibit houses Sumatran tigers (and previously also Bengal tigers). The exhibit was built to resemble the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia. It is enclosed on two sides by glass, and includes an underwater viewing area.
=Elephantasia=
Elephantasia is a {{Convert|12|acre|1|adj=on}} Asian themed exhibit that opened in 2006 and is the largest elephant enclosure in Australia. It includes a wading pool with a fountain, and tropical gardens with shaded areas for the zoo's elephants. In October 2019 Australia Zoo imported four female Sumatran elephants. The elephants are on display in Elephantasia as of December 2021.
=Rainforest Aviary=
The Rainforest Aviary is an outdoor walk-through aviary housing about 150 birds, most of which are native to Australia. Adjacent to the Rainforest Aviary is the Birds of Prey aviary, which holds various species of raptors and other predatory birds. Following the birth of Bindi Irwin's daughter the Rainforest Aviary was renamed Grace's Bird Garden.
=Bindi's Island=
Opened beside the Africa exhibit in December 2014 and named after Steve's daughter, Bindi's Island is a three-story "treehouse" built around a replica fig tree. It offers panoramic views of Australia Zoo, including the adjacent lemur island.
=Robert's Reptile House=
The zoo's indoor reptile exhibits which showcase twenty different species of reptiles (and three species of frogs) in sixteen different terrariums.
=Other Exhibits=
Further exhibit zones include Crocodile Environmental Park, Roo Heaven, Wetlands and others.
Other facilities
= Dining =
Visitors can eat at the open air upper story "Crikey! Cafe" (which seats up to 1,500), at the Grasslands Cafe, or at several food vending stands around the zoo.
=Transport=
To get around the zoo, visitors can take Steve's Safari Shuttle, a 'modified trailered bus' that operates on a bitumen (asphalt) roadway circuit. Visitors can also hire a caddie with guide to drive around the zoo for the day.
=Playgrounds=
The zoo includes multiple shaded playgrounds as well as a jumping pillow and water splash park.
Activities
There are 4 walk-through enclosures that visitors can enter and feed kangaroos, wallabies, and koalas, and there is often an opportunity to pet a koala when staff are in the exhibit.
The zoo offers a roving animal team that walks around the grounds throughout the day with various animals such as alligators, birds, snakes, and lizards. Visitors may have their photo taken with the animals and can purchase professional copies from the zoo's photo lab.
In April 2019 Australia Zoo announced $8 million project 'Camp Crocodile'. The wildlife camping experience is expected to lure over 39,000 visitors to the Sunshine Coast each year.{{Cite web|url=https://startsat60.com/travel/australia-zoo-announces-exciting-8m-wildlife-camping-experience|title=Australia Zoo announces 'exciting' $8M wildlife camping experience|date=2019-04-15|website=Travel at 60|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-05-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190503030842/https://startsat60.com/travel/australia-zoo-announces-exciting-8m-wildlife-camping-experience|archive-date=3 May 2019|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}
Animal rescue and rehabilitation
Image:Harriet-raffi kojian-CIMG6486.JPG, the third oldest tortoise ever authenticated, lived at Australia Zoo]]
=Wildlife Warriors=
Wildlife Warriors runs a rescue operation and care station for any native wildlife which may be injured in accidents outside the zoo.
This effort is now supported by the {{Convert|1300|m2|sqft|-3|adj=on}} Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital next to the zoo, which can care for up to 10,000 animals per year, with two operating theatres, two treatment rooms, intensive care units for mammals, birds, and reptiles, and an X-ray room, and was designed by WD Architects. The hospital is named in honour of Steve Irwin's mother Lynn Irwin, who died in a car accident in 2000.
Other zoo properties
=Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve=
This {{Convert|135000|ha|adj=on}} property was acquired with the assistance of the Australian government as part of the National Reserve System Programme. It is located on the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, and contains spring fed wetlands that provide a water source to threatened habitat and the Wenlock River.
=Iron Bark Station (Blackbutt)=
Australia Zoo purchased the {{Convert|3500|acre}} Iron Bark Station located at Blackbutt, Queensland in 1994. It is part of the great dividing Range, where the East coast meets the dry West. An additional {{Convert|325|acre}} was purchased in 1994 to save a dwindling koala population, with fewer than 12 koalas left in the area. Management immediately commenced reforestation, including 44,000 eucalypt trees for koalas. In 1998, another {{Convert|325|acre}} was purchased. In 1999, a {{Convert|5|acre}} release facility was established to rehabilitate native marsupials in the area. Another {{Convert|1000|acre}} was purchased in 1999 with funds from the Lynn Irwin Memorial fund (now Wildlife Warriors Worldwide), and another {{Convert|1800|acre}} was added in 2002. In 2007, Bob Irwin became full-time manager of the station.
=Mourachan (St. George)=
This conservation area was developed to protect endangered species, such as the woma python and yakka skink. It consists of 117,174 acres, in which various habitat types have been created, by Australia Zoo and the Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors.
It is a place where endangered species can reestablish populations, and as of 2015, Terri purchased an additional 33,000 acres of land to expand this conservation habitat.
See also
{{Portal|Queensland|Animals}}
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