People love visiting our breeding laboratory here at the Australian Butterfly Sanctuary. The sheer size of our programme is mind boggling, and most of all, when seeing all these caterpillars, most people find it fascinating that such a creature could transform itself into the beautiful butterfly. In fact, the caterpillar has all the equipment, by [...]
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Best job in the World – May 2011
by admin on May 16, 2011 | Comments Off
What a week we have coming up in Port Douglas, North Queensland. It’s Carnivale time; my first one so I am really excited. We will be doing 4 events this year, 3 more than last year so the whole crew are flat out getting ready. The theme is based around Alice in Wonderland so there is [...]
Cookie Monster Rainbow Serpent
by Wildlife Editor on April 28, 2011 | Comments Off
At the Cairns Wildlife Dome, we recently we had a 100% success rate in the birth of our spotted python eggs. Our two female spotted pythons laid 15 eggs each, and with the help of Rainforestation Nature Park’s incubator, all 30 eggs hatched. We are finding homes for most, but we have kept two.  They [...]
Best job in the world blog
by admin on February 24, 2011 | Comments Off
Well its been a busy two weeks after cyclone Yasi and we have all been cleaning up. A pair off our Dusky Moorhens have taken advantage of all the debris lying around to build a nest. Its about 500mm high and 800mm wide, Â they lay their eggs (about 7 to 10) on top and protect [...]
Rainforestation Koalas
by admin on February 10, 2011 | Comments Off
We are happy to report that Rainforestation thankfully had minimal effect from Tropical Cyclone Yasi’s impact. Norty Morty and the rest of his wildlife friends are all safe and fine as well. Cyclone Yasi shutdown Rainforestation for two days but it’s back to business as usual for us. With this being our busiest time of [...]
Butterfly Blog
by admin on February 10, 2011 | Comments Off
Butterfly Blogs 7 I think that most of the people who work here as tour guides, never imagined that one day they would have a job that would include collecting butterfly eggs three of four times a day! Here at the Australian Butterfly Sanctuary, Kuranda that is exactly what we do. Don’t imagine though that [...]
by Wildlife Editor on December 20, 2010 | Comments Off
A female butterfly is an expert when it comes to finding a plant on which to lay her eggs. She needs to be, as if she gets it wrong, her offspring will not go on to become adults. In fact, laid on the wrong plant, a caterpillar will most likely starve until it dies. So, [...]
Snowy the Kookaburra
by Wildlife Editor on November 30, 2010 | Comments Off
We have something quite unique at the Cairns Wildlife Dome. A white laughing kookaburra named Snowy. He makes a spectacular site, especially when you get the chance to see him with his friends our other laughing kookaburra and the blue winged kookaburra. They sound awesome when all are calling together. Snowy is a wild bird [...]
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Tags: Birds, Cairns Wildlife Dome, White Kookaburra, Wildlife Care Centre 
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by Wildlife Editor on November 30, 2010 | Comments Off
Butterfly Blogs Did you know that a caterpillar grows to about 27,000 times the size it was when it first emerged from its egg? Caterpillars are essentially eating machines, they eat and eat and eat, shedding skins as they outgrow them. They are the ultimate consumers, however, they are very fussy when it comes to [...]
Posted in Animals, Attractions, Kuranda Tags: Australian Butterfly Sanctuary, Butterflies, Cairns Birdwing, catepillars, Kuranda Comments OffAt The WIldlife Habitat,,,
by admin on November 23, 2010 | Comments Off
The Wildlife Habitat at Port Douglas is a great place to have childrens parties, with close animal interaction being a huge hit with the Kids. Here is some feedback from a recent party held here. Hi Emily The kids had a great time – thank you. The breakfast menu was fantastic and the birds did [...]
Posted in Animals, News Tags: Breakfast With the Birds, Great Service, Kids Parties, Lunch With the Lorikeets, Port Douglas PArties, Wildlife Habitat Comments Off
