An Italian Frog came to visit We have a recycling bin here at the Australian Butterfly Sanctuary, and look who we found in it this morning. I reckon he’s got a distinctly Italian leaning this one – look at what he’s sitting on and what he’s looking at! Kuranda is well known for it’s green [...]

              Australian Wildlife Habitat Shark finning or cutting the fins off sharks (it kills them) is nearly a thing of the past thanks to a luxury hotel chain and other top end restaurants in Asia whom have seen the light after years of public pressure and are no longer [...]

Harri (ette) the Hairy Caterpillar   Peter, one of our gardeners just brought this guy in for us to have a look at. At firt I tried to take photos of him (or her) but he moved so fast it was really difficult to get a good shot. What made it even more difficult was [...]

Our Satin Bowerbirds here at the Cairns Wildlife Dome are desperately trying to impress the ladies. They have been building spectacular nests and putting on a great display for the females, who unfortunately don’t exist! We have experienced great difficulty in finding a female to come and join the males at the Dome. For the [...]

Cape Kimberly Beach Clean-up. Well life is pretty good when you hit the road to clean up a beautiful Australian beach (Cape Kimberly in the Cape Tribulation area) and 4 overseas wildlife volunteers offer their services and come and help out. We were also joined at the Wildlife Habitat cark park by about 20 other [...]

It is World War III for our Eastern Water Dragon males here at the Dome, with both of them fighting for the only female we have here. They persist on getting to each other through the glass border separating them. This is natural behavior and often occurs in the wild. However some aren’t so fortunate [...]

Ho Ho Ho and a bag full of Snakes and Crocodiles. Well it’s nearly that time of year again ( where did 2011 go ? ) and we have joined forces with the Port Douglas Neighbourhood Centre to run a huge Christmas Raffle valued at over $3000. The raffle runs from November 1st until 17th [...]

Armoured Predators (Crocodiles – Facts & scary Stats) *Crocodiles are reptiles *Reptiles cannot heat up their bodies from the inside like birds or mammals; rather they heat up their bodies with the rays of the sun. * Crocodiles have 66 teeth. Each can be replaced many times over during the crocodiles lifetime. *Crocodiles bodies are [...]

September we welcomed our new arrivals which have settled in quite well, Punky and Felix. Punky and Felix are our new Tiger Quolls which where flown up from Ballarat Wildlife Park from the cold southern winter to the tropical northern summer but have settled in nicely. The wildlife staff worked hard creating a full restoration [...]

Australia’s Wildlife Habitat. Mulching day. Well our Koala’s need fresh food and plenty of it. We grow about 3000 eucalypt trees on site for them that keeps the maintenance team busy. Weeding, fertilizing and mulching these plantations is a full time job. On Monday as part of our environmental policy and procedures and green team [...]