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Tetepare in the largest unlogged and uninhabited island in the South Pacific. The Solomon Island Tetepare tribe that had been decimated by headhunting and disease from early colonial contact, left the island, like a living museum in the mid-1800’s. These traditional landowners, who live on neighbouring islands, formed the Tetepare Descendants’ Association (TDA) in 2002 to protect their culture and forests from industrial scale logging or resettlement. For over two decades, TDA has employed rangers and ecotourism staff and provided education scholarships for over 50 students a year. Learn more about their amazing conservation work (including nesting Leatherback turtles) at www.tetepare.org or in the book “The Last Wild Island: Saving Tetepare”.

South Australian ecologists John Read and Katherine Moseby are Patrons of TDA.






Other Conservation Projects

Black-flanked Rock-wallaby (warru)

Black-flanked Rock-wallaby

Zoos SA has joined forces with a range of partners to reintroduce warru into a feral proof fenced area...

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Tasmanian Devil

Tasmanian Devil

Zoos SA is working with many partner organisations across Australasia in a large collaborative captive breeding and release program...

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Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby

Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby

In 1996 Zoos SA contributed to a partnership that reintroduced a population of Yellow-footed Rock-wallabies into Aroona Sanctuary.

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Orange-bellied Parrot

Orange-bellied Parrot

Zoos SA plays a key role in the recovery of this species through captive breeding at Adelaide Zoo.

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About Zoos SA

Zoos SA is a not-for-profit conservation charity that exists to connect people with nature and save species from extinction. Zoos SA acknowledges the Country on which we stand always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land and we pay our deepest respect and gratitude to Kaurna (Adelaide Zoo) and Ngarrindjeri (Monarto Safari Park) Elders, past, present and emerging. We undertake critical conservation work throughout Australia and acknowledge the traditional custodians of these lands.

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