Small, colourful and threatened with extinction, Adelaide Zoo and Monarto Safari Park are home to Yellow-footed Rock-wallabies. Zoos SA has been helping the Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby through captive breeding and reintroduction into the Aroona Sanctuary in the Flinders Ranges.
Your visit helps fund our conservation work but you can take it up a notch by buying a Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby experience for you or a special someone.
Across Monarto Safari Park we have naturally occurring populations of ten threatened plant species, including one of South Australia’s rarest plants – the Monarto Mintbush.
Our remnant vegetation and revegetation areas also provide refuge for fourteen declining woodland bird species. We are actively managing our site to ensure their long-term future!
The Komodo Survival Program aims to improve the management and conservation of the Komodo Dragon in its natural habitat. The program supports improving knowledge through research and data collection, developing local expertise and raising awareness, particularly through local community projects.
Adelaide Zoo is home to Cecelia the Komodo Dragon who is a great ambassador for her species!
Sadly, there are no known populations of Mallee Emu-wrens left in South Australia.
However, excitingly, Zoos SA is developing husbandry techniques, starting with the Rufous-crowned Emu-wren, as a learning surrogate to support ex-situ conservation including their reintroduction.
As a conservation charity, we exist to give species just like the tiny Mallee Emu-wrens a lifeline into the future.
The SA Mainland Tammar Wallaby became extinct in the wild in the 1920s.
But with the help of Zoos SA’s captive breeding program, they have been reintroduced back onto the Yorke Peninsula!
We continue to house the only captive insurance population of the SA Mainland Tammar Wallaby at Adelaide Zoo and Monarto Safari Park.
The dedicated SANParks Honorary Rangers help to support and protect conservation projects, raise community awareness, fundraise and provide on-ground services.
Zoos SA recently donated essential communications equipment to help the rangers monitor areas where poaching exists.
The Plains Wanderer is a small ground-dwelling bird and there are less than 1,000 in the wild.
Zoos SA is working with the Recovery Team and our partners to establish a captive insurance population of these unique birds in an effort towards building a future wild release program!
Adelaide Zoo is home to over 30 of these tiny tortoises and they are incredible tiny ambassadors for their species!
The Western Swamp Tortoise has come remarkably close to extinction. Thankfully Zoos SA, in partnership with Perth Zoo, have been able to captive breed and release these tortoises into the wild! All of this ensures the long-term survival of the species.
Monarto Safari Park is home to eight cheetahs, one males and seven females!
The cheetah is the world’s fastest land animal and capable of reaching speeds of more than 100km per hour in just over three seconds. At top speed, a cheetah’s stride is seven metres long.
Zoos SA partners with the Cheetah Conservation Fund and together we are passionate about saving cheetah populations in the wild. The Cheetah Conservation Fund undertakes research, habitat restoration, human wildlife conflict resolution and alternative livelihoods and more.
The Warru is one of South Australia’s most endangered animals.
As a conservation charity, Zoos SA has supported the wild population through monitoring, wild translocation, and project management. We have also supported the captive breeding of the Warru and helped reintroduce them back into the Anangu Pitjantjarjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in South Australia.
Your visits and memberships support us and allow us to continue this vital work for the Warru!
Tetepare is one of the last remaining wild islands kept from palm oil farming and plantations. It remains as land for conservation of wildlife and habitat.
Zoos SA supports community conservation programs and educational scholarships on Tetepare. The school-based scholarships help to ensure that families aren’t forced to work in illegal wildlife trade or on black market to fund their children’s education and that we are providing future generations with a strong education.
The Pygmy Bluetongue Lizard. This little marvel is one of Australia’s rarest lizards and was thought to be extinct until being rediscovered in Burra in South Australia in 1992.
Zoos SA is part of the Pygmy Bluetongue Recovery Team and has a successful captive breeding program at both Adelaide Zoo and Monarto Safari Park.
We also support research into this unique little lizard and hope to see a continued incline in the population of their species.
Once widespread over mainland Australia, today, Tasmanian Devils are only found in Tasmania.
Until recently this species was considered common, however, due to the presence of Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD) there has been a sharp decline in the population.
We have bred over 73 joeys in the last 15 years, and been part of the wild release program. We’re proud to know our devils are helping these animals recover in the wild, and also continuing to breed!
One of the ways that Zoos SA supports Sera Wildlife Conservancy is through the Beads for Wildlife Program. Adelaide Zoo and Monarto Safari Park sell beautifully decorated beadwork produced by local women in northern Kenya.
The income that women receive through the sale of beadwork has benefits for both the community and wildlife.
By simply buying a handcrafted Beads for Wildlife souvenir next time you visit us, you can help provide relief for wildlife and support these communities half a world away.
It is estimated that fewer than 1,500 South Eastern Red-tailed Black Cockatoos remain in the wild.
At Zoos SA we work with a network of land holders in southeast South Australia as part of our ‘Cockies Helping Cockies’ project to protect and revegetate the feeding and nesting habitat for these beautiful birds.
Adelaide Zoo is home to four inquisitive Red-tailed Black Cockatoos, including Banks and Spence who are stars of Adelaide Zoo’s Free Flight show!
Wildlife Asia is raising funds for wildlife field programs in South East Asia.
Their projects focus on habitat protection, wildlife conservation, and sustainable development.
Zoos SA supports Wildlife Asian to deliver on ground conservation actions, and protect species including Silvery Gibbon, Asian Rhino, Orangutan and Sumatran Tiger like Kembali!
The Striped Legless Lizard is one of South Australia’s rarest reptiles and Zoos SA has the privilege of ensuring its long-term survival.
To do this, we undertake annual field surveys in southeast South Australia and aim to raise awareness about the Striped Legless Lizard within local communities.
Thanks to your continued support, we are doing our part in helping to safeguard this amazing creature from extinction.
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