The Latest Breaking News from Taronga Zoo

Smart seals surprise behind the scenes

Furry, flippered onstage talent is drenching spectators, with splashes of awareness for their friends out in the wild.

AAP · Mar 20

Tiny, lost and constipated: what a baby turtle told Australian scientists about warming seas

The arrival of loggerheads in New South Wales shows these ‘sentinels of climate change’ are being forced into unknown territory

The Guardian - UK · Mar 5

Snails on a plane: Australia flies rescue mission to Norfolk Island for a tiny, critically endangered species

The Campbell’s keeled glass-snail is officially extinct, but researchers have ‘high hopes’ that translocation will allow the population to thrive

The Guardian - AU · Dec 20, 2025

How Australian scientists brought Norfolk Island’s thumbnail-sized snails back from the brink of extinction

After a slow start, the Campbell’s keeled glass-snails are now breeding like rabbits – or maybe like snails – with plans to reintroduce them to the island

The Guardian - AU · Jul 13, 2024

Taronga Zoo Named 7 Baby Penguins After Matildas Players Cos’ Who Else Deserves Such An Honour

Taronga Zoo Sydney welcomed seven new penguin chicks to its enclosure, and chose to name them after some iconic Matildas players.

Pedestrian.tv · Dec 23, 2023

Crims in sight as new tech blocks wildlife trafficking

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek wants the book thrown at criminals who attempt to traffic Australian wildlife.

AAP · Dec 20, 2023

'They look like people in suits': viral video fuels more visits to sun bears

Canberra has two sun bears and are the parents of a third who lives at Taronga Zoo.

The Canberra Times · Aug 4, 2023

Underpaid Taronga Zoo casuals get $2.6m in back pay

Taronga Zoo's chief executive says he is "deeply sorry" after a review found casual workers had been underpaid through a new payroll system.

The New Daily · Jun 9, 2023

Platypuses return to Sydney's Royal National Park after disappearing for decades

The iconic Australian animal is believed to have disappeared from Sydney's Royal National Park after a major chemical spill on the Princes Highway in the 1970s.

ABC News · May 14, 2023

Baby loggerhead turtles returned to Shelly Beach on Central Coast and released after hatching at Taronga

More than 90 baby loggerhead turtles have been released into the wild in on the NSW Central Coast overnight after the eggs were excavated and transported to Taronga Zoo.

ABC News · Apr 10, 2023