Symbio Wildlife Park
| Symbio Wildlife Park | |
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 Cotton-top tamarin under heat lamp at Symbio | |
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| 34°12′16″S 150°58′10″E / 34.204451°S 150.969438°E | |
| Date opened | 1975 |
| Location | Helensburgh, New South Wales, Australia |
| Land area | 16 acres (6.5 ha) |
| Memberships | ZAA |
| Website | symbiozoo |
Symbio Wildlife Park is a privately owned medium sized zoo located in Helensburgh, New South Wales, south of Sydney and in close proximity to the City of Wollongong. Beginning in 1975 as a native Australian wildlife park, Symbio later expanded its holdings with a number of different animals from other countries also, and has contributed to conservation work and captive breeding programs for both Australian and exotic animals. In 2021 the park established specialty built captive-breeding facilities for native vulnerable and endangered Bellinger River snapping turtles, Manning River snapping turtles and Stuttering frogs. Among Symbio's animal residents is an albino echidna named Leo.[1][2][3]
Animal species at the park include:
- Alpaca
- American alligator
- Bare-nosed wombat
- Bellinger River snapping turtle
- Boyd's forest dragon
- Carpet python
- Central bearded dragon
- Cheetah
- Common death adder
- Common marmoset
- Cotton-top tamarin
- Dingo
- Eastern blue-tongue lizard
- Eastern grey kangaroo
- Eastern yellow robin
- Emu
- Freshwater crocodile
- Frilled-neck lizard
- Gang-gang cockatoo
- Gila monster
- Golden lion tamarin
- Inland taipan
- Koala
- Little penguin
- Manning River snapping turtle
- Meerkat
- Nicobar pigeon
- Noisy pitta
- Pygmy marmoset
- Rainbow lorikeet
- Red panda
- Red-bellied black snake
- Regent bowerbird
- Ring-tailed lemur
- Saltwater crocodile
- Shingleback skink
- Short-beaked echidna
- Southern cassowary
- Stuttering frog
- Sulphur-crested cockatoo
- Superb fruit-dove
- Tasmanian devil
- Tawny frogmouth
- Wedge-tailed eagle
- White-browed scrubwren
- White-fronted chat
- Wompoo fruit-dove
Incidents
[edit]In March 2022, a red panda named Kesari was put down after escaping from the park and being hit by a vehicle after a tree fell.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Greg Ellis (2017). "The big winners at the Illawarra Business Awards". illawarramercury.com.au. Illawarra Mercury. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
- ^ Greg Ellis (31 October 2018). "David Beckham and family visit Symbio Wildlife Park". theleader. The Leader. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
- ^ Helen Smith (4 October 2016). "A Koala and a Butterfly are new best friends". metro. Metro Media UK. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
- ^ "Kesari the red panda dies after being hit by a car south of Sydney". ABC News. 18 March 2022.
