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Taronga Blogs

Sustainable Seafood Choices Made Easy
Friday 10th September 2010
I’m sure you’ve heard we humans are taking so many fish out of the oceans that many of the fish we like to eat soon won’t be there anymore.
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Bicycle Conservation Ride Hits the Hills
Wednesday 8th September 2010
Taronga Zoo's General Manager Wildlife Conservation, Will Meikle, with 18 other zoo keepers and managers riding from Sydney to the Gold Coast for Australasia's zoos and aquariums to raise awareness of wildlife in National Threatened Species Week. Catch his regular blogs over coming days:
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Elephant Update
Friday 3rd September 2010
With the weather getting warmer, both the elephant calves have been going into the pool more often. They’re playing really well together and Pathi Harn tries to clamber onto Luk Chai’s back. It’s just as well that Luk Chai’s trunk functions well as a snorkel.
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Elliott And Friends Raise Over $99,000 For Conservation!
Wednesday 1st September 2010
At the Taronga Zoo Free Flight Bird Show, we not only give our visitors an insight into the amazing life of birds, but our birds also help contribute towards conservation of species in the wild.
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Grab your Zoo Grooves tickets now
Tuesday 31st August 2010
The hottest tickets in town are now on sale at Taronga Western Plains Zoo’s main entrance for Zoo Grooves on Saturday 2 October 2010 at 1:30pm during the October long weekend.
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Prime Possum visit Taronga Western Plains Zoo
Monday 30th August 2010
Prime Possum and the Saturday Club visited Taronga Western Plains Zoo this week to film segments for an upcoming show.
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Gone with the Wind... a Taronga Bird Keeper in Canada
Monday 30th August 2010
Beaver-tails, funnel cakes, baseball, peppers (capsicums!) and skunks. None of these were part of my world until recently, some of these weren’t even part of my vocabulary and in retrospect I think I still wish funnel cakes wasn’t.
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Snow Leopards and Sun Bears
Friday 27th August 2010
The carnivore keepers are again getting to normal with their animals in their exhibits. The two Snow Leopards, Sabu and Kamala, are the 5 year old offspring of Samarra, the breeding female which stayed in the usual exhibit during the work.
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Bird Watching Tarongas Regent Honeyeaters
Friday 27th August 2010
There’s good news to report from the bird-watchers monitoring the Zoo-bred Regent Honeyeaters in Chiltern, Victoria. We released the birds over four months ago and there are still plenty of them around.
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Students FESS Up as Future Endangered Species Scientists at Taronga Western Plains Zoo
Thursday 26th August 2010
We’ve just finished hosting visits last week by students from around the Western Region who came to celebrate National Science Week.
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