Locally owned and operated by the CaPTA Group, the Wildlife Habitat is committed to the conservation of native species via its Wildlife Care Centre and its extensive involvement in other conservation programs and research. In addition to your visit to the wildlife park, you can go behind the scenes and see the ongoing work involved […]
To Adopt An Animal online today, visit our adoption page! Wildlife Habitat Port Douglas is now giving animal lovers the chance to adopt their favourite Australian animals through an initiative called “Habitat Heroes”. When you adopt an animal, you will be helping Wildlife Habitat Port Douglas preserve some of the most endangered and vulnerable […]
Colin, our Lumholtz’s Tree Kangaroo has a brand new home! This enclosure is much more stimulating than his previous one. There are natural vines and trees for him to make his way through and platforms for feeding and sleeping on a various levels. Although Colin is in his own enclosure, he is still part of […]
Renowned to the Australian wildlife, are the iconic Kangaroos and Wallabies. At the Wildlife Habitat Port Douglas, we are lucky to have a large population of macropods that reside in the Savannah exhibit. The Savannah is an open-air exhibit that was designed to replicate both inland and coastal plains within Australia. This exhibit is also […]
One of our more exclusive animals that live in the Wildlife Habitat Port Douglas is the Lumholtz Tree Kangaroo. This curious animal falls into the macropodidae family, which include the more familiar wallabies and kangaroos. The lumholtz tree kangaroo is one of the smaller species within the family, and can only be found in Australia. […]
Did you know that the Wildlife Habitat Port Douglas is the only park in the world successfully breeding Black-Necked Storks? In Australia, these majestic creatures are restricted mainly to the coastal monsoonal areas of Australia. Naturally inhabiting wetlands such as rivers and floodplains, our team at the Wildlife Habitat have purposely designed our Wetlands area […]
If you think your friends are a wild bunch, then you haven’t seen anything yet! At Wildlife Habitat in Port Douglas, you can get up close and personal with kangaroos and emus. You can even cuddle a koala! Thanks to our furry friends, we were just named by Bupa Dental Insurance as a top spot […]
Wildlife Habitat has one of Queensland largest range of macropods. The word macropod comes from two Greek words meaning ‘big-footed’. Most species of macropods are known as kangaroos and wallabies, but wallaroos, quokkas and pademelons also belong to this family. Macropods Facts: They are herbivores. Larger kangaroos graze in open grasslands, others graze and browse […]
World Environment Day was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1972. Celebrated on 5th June every year to raise awareness on the positive action we can take to protect nature and the planet Earth. Everyone has the opportunity to assist the environment. We do not need to make grand gestures. Together our […]
This week we celebrate Tree Kangaroo Awareness Week. An opportunity to raise awareness of one of Australia’s most elusive and unique marsupials. There are collectively fourteen species of tree-kangaroo throughout Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Australia. Two species are unique to Australia, found only in North Queensland. They are the Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo (LTK) and the […]
