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. For aquariums, see

List of aquaria in Australia This is a list of public aquariums in Australia. For zoos in Australia, see List of zoos in Australia. Aquariums are facilities where animals are confined within tanks and displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred. Such faci ...

. Zoos are primarily facilities where animals are displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred. Such facilities include zoos, safari parks,

animal theme park An animal theme park, also known as a zoological theme park, is a combination of an amusement park and a zoo, mainly for entertainment, amusement, and commercial purposes. Many animal theme parks combine classic theme park elements, such as themed ...

s, aviaries,

butterfly zoo A butterfly house, conservatory, or lepidopterarium is a facility which is specifically intended for the breeding and display of butterflies with an emphasis on education. Some butterfly houses also feature other insects and arthropods. Butterf ...

s, and reptile centres, as well as wildlife sanctuaries and nature reserves where visitors are allowed.

Australian Capital Territory

* Canberra Reptile Zoo, Nicholls * Canberra Walk in Aviary , Nicholls * National Zoo & Aquarium, Yarralumla

New South Wales

* Altina Wildlife Park,

Darlington Point Darlington Point is a small town on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River in the Riverina district of western New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the Murrumbidgee Council local government area. The centre of town is four kilometres from ...

Auburn Botanic Gardens The Auburn Botanic Gardens are a botanical garden located in Auburn (a suburb of Sydney), New South Wales, Australia. It was established in 1977 and covers an area of . There are two lakes, a waterfall and bridges. Duck River winds through the ...

Auburn Auburn may refer to: Places Australia * Auburn, New South Wales * City of Auburn, the local government area *Electoral district of Auburn *Auburn, Queensland, a locality in the Western Downs Region *Auburn, South Australia *Auburn, Tasmania *Aub ...

* Australian Walkabout Wildlife Park, Calga, Central Coast *

Australian Reptile Park The Australian Reptile Park is located at Somersby on the Central Coast, New South Wales in Australia. It is about north of Sydney, and is just off the M1 Pacific Motorway. The Park has one of the largest reptile collections in Australia, w ...

, Somersby * Banana Cabana Primate Sanctuary, Dural * Billabong Koala and Wildlife Park, Port Macquarie * Birdland Animal Park, Batemans Bay *

Blackbutt Reserve Blackbutt Reserve is a nature reserve in the Newcastle, New South Wales, Newcastle region of New South Wales, Australia. Location Blackbutt Reserve is located between New Lambton, New South Wales, New Lambton and Kotara, New South Wales, Kotara. ...

Kotara Kotara is a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located from Newcastle's central business district. It is part of the City of Newcastle local government area. Kotara is known as one of Newcastle's largest retail destinations ...

* Byron Bay Wildlife Sanctuary,

Tintenbar Tintenbar is a village located on the Far North Coast of New South Wales (in Australia). Administratively it is part of the Ballina Shire. It is located about or a 9-minute car drive north-west from Ballina along the Pacific Highway. Syd ...

(formerly Macadamia castle) * Central Coast Zoo,

Wyong Creek Wyong Creek is a suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the local government area A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. ...

* Central Gardens, Merrylands * Calmsley City Farm, Abbotsbury (formerly Fairfield City Farm) *

Featherdale Wildlife Park Featherdale Wildlife Park is a zoo located in Doonside, Sydney, Australia. The park is located in Sydney's west, approximately from Sydney's CBD. The park contains various species native to Australia, and is known to be one of the world's larg ...

Doonside Doonside is a suburb in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Doonside is located 40 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Blacktown and is part of the Greater Western ...

* Hunter Valley Wildlife Park, Nulkaba (formerly Hunter Valley Zoo) * Koala Park Sanctuary,

West Pennant Hills West Pennant Hills is a suburb in the Hills District of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. West Pennant Hills is located 20 km north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government areas of The Hills Shire and Horn ...

* Mogo Wildlife Park,

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(formerly Mogo Zoo) * Oakvale Wildlife Park,

Salt Ash Salt Ash is a rural suburb of the Port Stephens local government areas in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the main road between Newcastle and Nelson Bay but is largely undeveloped, partly because it is the loca ...

*P otoroo Palace Native Animal Educational Sanctuary,

Merimbula Merimbula is a town on the Merimbula Lake, located on the Far South Coast or Sapphire Coast of New South Wales, Australia. At the , the population was 3,544. The population within 10 km of the Merimbula Post office is over 18,000 people. ...

(formerly Yellow Pinch Wildlife Park) *

Shoalhaven Zoo Shoalhaven Zoo, formerly the Nowra Animal Park, is an animal park on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Shoalhaven Zoo is the largest native animal park on the NSW South Coast and holds over 100 species of mostly native mammals, bird ...

, Nowra *

Sydney Zoo Sydney Zoo is a zoo in Bungarribee in the Western Sydney Parklands, in Greater Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Sydney Zoo is located west of the Sydney central business district. It occupies a site. Sydney Zoo is a member of the ...

Bungarribee Bungarribee is a suburb of Blacktown, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Bungarribee is located approximately 37 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Blacktown and is part ...

* Symbio Wildlife Park, Helensburgh * Taralga Wildlife Park,

Taralga Taralga is the traditional land of the Gundungurra people. Today it is a small village in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, in Upper Lachlan Shire. It is located at the intersection of the Goulburn-Oberon Road and the Lagga ...

Taronga Western Plains Zoo Taronga Western Plains Zoo, formerly known as (and still commonly referred to as) Western Plains Zoo and commonly known as Dubbo Zoo, is a large zoo near Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia. It opened to the public on 28 February 1977, to provide ...

Dubbo Dubbo () is a city in the Orana Region of New South Wales, Australia. It is the largest population centre in the Orana region, with a population of 43,516 at June 2021. The city is located at the intersection of the Newell, Mitchell, and Gol ...

* Taronga Zoo, Mosman * Wagga Wagga Zoo, Wagga Wagga * Wild Cat Conservation Centre, Wilberforce *

Wild Life Sydney Wild Life Sydney Zoo (formerly Sydney Wildlife World) is a wildlife park in the Darling Harbour precinct, on the western edge of the Sydney central business district, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Opened in September 2006, the zoo is l ...

Darling Harbour Darling Harbour is a harbour adjacent to the city centre of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia that is made up of a large recreational and pedestrian precinct that is situated on western outskirts of the Sydney central business district. Origin ...

* Zambi Wildlife Retreat Wallacia

Northern Territory

Alice Springs Desert Park The Alice Springs Desert Park is an environmental education facility and wildlife park in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is sited on , with a core area of . It is an institutional member of the Zoo and Aquarium Associa ...

Alice Springs Alice Springs ( aer, Mparntwe) is the third-largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia. Known as Stuart until 31 August 1933, the name Alice Springs was given by surveyor William Whitfield Mills after Alice, Lady Todd (''née'' Al ...

Alice Springs Reptile Centre The Alice Springs Reptile Centre is a privately operated reptile centre and environmental education facility in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. It contains the largest collection of reptiles in the Northern Territory. Anima ...

Crocodylus Park Crocodylus Park is a zoo situated in Knuckey Lagoon, Northern Territory, Australia. It specialises in the conservation of saltwater and freshwater crocodiles and features a comprehensive crocodile museum. The park also has big cats, monkeys, birds ...

, Darwin * Crocosaurus Cove, Darwin * Territory Wildlife Park,

Berry Springs Berry Springs is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia. The locality is a mostly rural area situated on the Cox Peninsula Road and is sparsely populated. A few businesses and a school are located in the locality. In the , the popul ...

Queensland

* Alexandra Park Zoo,

Bundaberg Bundaberg is a city in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia, and is the tenth largest city in the state. Bundaberg's regional area has a population of 70,921, and is a major centre of the Wide Bay–Burnett geographical region. The Bun ...

Australia Zoo Australia Zoo is a zoo located in the Australian state of Queensland on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sunshine Coast near Beerwah, Queensland, Beerwah/Glass House Mountains National Park, Glass House Mountains. It is a member of the Zoo and A ...

Sunshine Coast Sunshine Coast may refer to: * Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia **Sunshine Coast Region, a local government area of Queensland named after the region **Sunshine Coast Stadium * Sunshine Coast (British Columbia), geographic subregion of the Br ...

Billabong Sanctuary The Billabong Sanctuary is an wildlife sanctuary in Nome, south of Townsville, North Queensland, Australia. Animals The sanctuary is a permanent home to over 100 species of Australian mammals and reptiles such as kangaroos, wallabies, koala ...

, Nome, Townsville * Birdworld Kuranda, Kuranda * Brisbane Forest Park, Brisbane * Bungalow Bay Koala Village, Magnetic Island * Cairns Zoom & Wildlife Dome,

Cairns Cairns (, ) is a city in Queensland, Australia, on the tropical north east coast of Far North Queensland. The population in June 2019 was 153,952, having grown on average 1.02% annually over the preceding five years. The city is the 5th-most-p ...

* Cooberrie Park,

Woodbury Woodbury may refer to: Geography Antarctica *Woodbury Glacier, a glacier on Graham Land, British Antarctic Territory Australia * Woodbury, Tasmania, a locality in Australia England * Woodbury, Bournemouth, an area in Dorset *Woodbury, East Devo ...

Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary is a heritage-listed zoological garden at 28 Tomewin Street, Currumbin, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1947 onwards. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 18 September 2009. The sanctuary is w ...

, Gold Coast * Darling Downs Zoo, Pilton *

David Fleay Wildlife Park David Fleay Wildlife Park is a heritage-listed wildlife park at Fleays Wildlife Park Conservation Park, Tallebudgera Creek Road, Tallebudgera, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1952 to 1983. It is also known as Fleays Wildlife Park. It w ...

, Gold Coast * Flying High Bird Park],

Apple Tree Creek Apple Tree Creek is a rural town and locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. It was formerly known as Bodalla, the Dundaburra people of the Northern Kabi group name from the Gregory River Plum which to first Europeans looked lik ...

* Hartley's Crocodile Adventures,

Palm Cove Palm Cove is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Palm Cove had a population of 2,059 people. It is named after the palm trees that line the beach. Geography Palm Cove is located in Far North Queensland ...

* Ipswich Nature Centre, Ipswich * Kumbartcho Sanctuary, Eatons Hill, Brisbane * Kuranda Koala Gardens, Kuranda *

Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary is an koala sanctuary in the Brisbane suburb of Fig Tree Pocket in Queensland, Australia. Founded in 1927, it is the oldest and largest koala sanctuary of its kind in the world. History The name originates from a l ...

, Brisbane *

Paradise Country Paradise Country is an Australian homestead where guests are shown a variety of Australian animals including koalas, kangaroos and emus. The farm tour also includes several shows which feature the making of billy tea, a stock horse demonstration ...

, Oxenford * Rainforestation Nature Park, Kuranda * Rockhampton Zoo,

Rockhampton Rockhampton is a city in the Rockhampton Region of Central Queensland, Australia. The population of Rockhampton in June 2021 was 79,967, Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018. making it the fourth-largest city in the state outside of the ...

* Snakes Down Under Reptile Park and Zoo, Childers * Wild Life Hamilton Island, Hamilton Island *

Wildlife HQ Zoo Wildlife HQ Zoo (formerly Queensland Zoo), is located at the Big Pineapple, Woombye, Queensland on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland and opened in November 2013. In March 2014 many animals were relocated from the now closed Alma Park Zoo. Opening ...

, Big Pineapple

Woombye Woombye is a town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Woombye had a population of 3,246 people. Geography Woombye is located on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sunshine ...

* Wildlife Habitat, Port Douglas

South Australia

* Adelaide Zoo, Adelaide *

Cleland Wildlife Park Cleland National Park, formerly Cleland Conservation Park, is a protected area located in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia about south-east of the Adelaide city centre. It conserves a significant area of natural bushland on the Adelaide ...

Cleland Cleland may refer to: Places * Cleland, South Australia, a suburb ** Cleland National Park, a protected area in South Australia ***Cleland Wildlife Park, a zoo within the area of Cleland National Park * Cleland, North Lanarkshire, a small villa ...

* Glen-Forest Tourist Park, Port Lincoln *

Gorge Wildlife Park Gorge Wildlife Park is a privately-owned sanctuary in the Australian state of South Australia. It is at Cudlee Creek in the Adelaide Hills and continues to be operated by the same family that established it in 1965. It is 30 km northeast ...

Cudlee Creek Cudlee Creek is a small town near Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the Adelaide Hills Council local government area. History The name Cudlee Creek is probably derived from the Kaurna word ''kadli'', meaning the Dingo Creek. The fir ...

Monarto Safari Park Monarto Safari Park, formerly known as Monarto Zoological Park and Monarto Zoo, is a open-range zoo located in South Australia administered by the Royal Zoological Society of South Australia. It is located at Monarto, approximately from Adel ...

, Monarto * Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park, Seddon, Kangaroo Island * Urimbirra Wildlife Park, Victor Harbor *

Warrawong Sanctuary Warrawong Wildlife Sanctuary, formerly Warrawong Sanctuary, is a wildlife reserve in the Australian state of South Australia located in the suburb of Mylor about south-east of the centre of the state capital of Adelaide. History The land wa ...

, Mylor

Tasmania

* Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary,

Brighton Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...

* Devils@Cradle,

Cradle Mountain Cradle Mountain is a locality and mountain in the Central Highlands region of the Australian state of Tasmania. The mountain is situated in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park. At above sea level, it is the sixth-highest mountai ...

* East Coast Natureworld, Bicheno * Serpentarium Wildlife Park, St Helens *

Tasmania Zoo Tasmania Zoo is a zoo located in Launceston, Tasmania, Launceston, in the Australian state of Tasmania. Situated on of old growth native bushland, it is home to the state's largest collection of native and exotic animals. Tasmania Zoo is a f ...

, Launceston * Tasmanian Devil Unzoo,

Taranna Taranna is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Tasman in the South-east LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about north-east of the town of Nubeena. The 2016 census recorded a population of 156 for the state suburb of ...

* Trowunna Wildlife Park, Mole Creek * Wing's Wildlife Park, Gunns Plains *

Zoodoo Wildlife Park Zoodoo Zoo is a wildlife park about from Richmond, Tasmania in Australia. It is spread over . Zoodoo Zoo is a hands-on safari and native animal park. Visitors are able to feed lions, meet reptiles, and see Tasmanian devils and other Australia ...

Richmond Richmond most often refers to: * Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States * Richmond, London, a part of London * Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England * Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada * Richmond, California, ...

Victoria

Ballarat Wildlife Park Ballarat Wildlife Park is an interactive wildlife park situated in Ballarat, Australia which was opened by Greg Parker in 1987. The Park is situated on of natural bush land. Animals The Park currently holds around 400 species of animals, inclu ...

Ballarat Ballarat ( ) is a city in the Central Highlands (Victoria), Central Highlands of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 Census, Ballarat had a population of 116,201, making it the third largest city in Victoria. Estimated resid ...

Gumbuya World Gumbuya World (formerly Gumbuya Park) is an amusement park in Tynong North, Victoria, near Pakenham, in Victoria, Australia. The park is owned by Jayco, Inc Australia founder and owner Gerry Ryan and Carsales.com owner Wal Pisciotta since Sep ...

Tynong North Tynong North is a locality in West Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Cardinia local government area. Tynong North recorded a population of 440 at the 2021 census. ...

* Halls Gap Zoo, Halls Gap * Healesville Sanctuary, Healesville *

Kyabram Fauna Park The Kyabram Fauna Park is a fauna park in Kyabram, Victoria, Australia. History Until 1967, the current site of the Kyabram Fauna Park was a fallow farmland that had been abandoned for some years. In 1967, the need to utilize this piece of l ...

Kyabram Kyabram is a town in north central Victoria, Australia. Kyabram is located in the centre of a rich irrigation district in the Goulburn River Valley, north of Melbourne. It is the second-largest town in the Shire of Campaspe, situated between t ...

* Mansfield Zoo,

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* Maru Koala and Animal Park, Grantville *

Melbourne Zoo Melbourne Zoo is a zoo in Melbourne, Australia. It is located within Royal Park in Parkville, approximately north of the centre of Melbourne. It is the primary zoo serving Melbourne. The zoo contains more than 320 animal species from Austra ...

, Melbourne * Moonlit Sanctuary Wildlife Conservation Park,

Pearcedale Pearcedale is a township and coastal rural locality in Victoria, Australia, 49 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Casey and the Shire of Mornington Peninsula local government areas. Pearced ...

* Phillip Island Wildlife Park,

Cowes Cowes () is an English seaport town and civil parish on the Isle of Wight. Cowes is located on the west bank of the estuary of the River Medina, facing the smaller town of East Cowes on the east bank. The two towns are linked by the Cowes Floa ...

* Werribee Open Range Zoo, Werribee

Western Australia

Armadale Reptile Centre The Armadale Reptile Centre is a zoological garden in Armadale, Western Australia that focuses on herpetology and wildlife endemic to Australia. Opened to the public in 1995, the Armadale Reptile Centre houses a large variety of native reptile ...

, Armadale * Australian Wildlife Park Albany,

Torndirrup Torndirrup National Park is a national park in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, southeast of Perth and via Frenchman Bay Road is south of Albany. Torndirrup National Park has many impressive rock formations on the coast. Thes ...

* Bunbury Wildlife Park, Bunbury * Broome Crocodile Park, Broome *

Caversham Wildlife Park Caversham Wildlife Park is a wildlife park currently located in Whiteman Park in Western Australia. It is home to several Australian animals including kangaroos, koalas, possums, wallabies, wombats and Tasmanian devils. It was originally loc ...

, Whiteman, Perth * Cohunu Koala Park, Perth * Country Life Farm, Dunsborough * Denmark Animal Farm, Denmark * Discover Deadly, Carbunup River, Western Australia * Esperance Bird & Animal Park,

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* Greenough Wildlife & Bird Park, Greenough * Kanyana Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre, Lesmurdie * Perth Zoo, Perth * Ranger Red’s Zoo & Conservation Park,

Mandurah Mandurah () is a coastal city in the Australian state of Western Australia, situated approximately south of the state capital, Perth. It is the state's second most populous city, with a population of 107,641 as of the 2021 Australian census, 2 ...

* Wave Rock Wildlife Park, Hyden *

West Australian Reptile Park The West Australian Reptile Park is a reptile and native wildlife park located at Henley Brook in the upper Swan valley region of Perth, Western Australia. A privately owned facility, the park is home to a number of reptile species and other a ...

, Henley Brook

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