For the first time, the longest-running historical record of human-shark interactions in Australia is now accessible online. This follows a growing trend to make scientific datasets accessible, maximising the use and impact of the data. Taronga’s Australian Shark-Incident Database (ASID) describes more than 1000 shark-human interactions that have occurred in Australia over the past 230 years.
Birds released from captivity after successful rat eradication program.
The births are a rare captive breeding success for the species, with only two other short-beaked echidnas born at the zoo in more than 30 years.
He was officially named Jai Dee, meaning ‘good heart.’
An endangered pygmy hippo calf has been born at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo for the first time in seven years.
Taronga Zoo in Sydney is celebrating the birth of a cotton-top tamarin, a tiny critically endangered primate native to Colombia.
Six meerkat pups have been born at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo, the biggest litter in the zoo’s history.
Conservation efforts are proving successful for a group of endangered turtles.
Taronga Zoo is celebrating the birth of the second litter of meerkat pups this year.
