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![Where are the tortoises?](/sites/default/files/styles/overview_image_style/public/content/header-images/news/galapagos_tortoise_2880_desktop.jpg?itok=niLM5HBC)
Taronga Western Plains Zoo’s beloved Galapagos Tortoises have moved!
Posted on 27th June 2023 by Media Relations
![The home of World Meerkat Day!](/sites/default/files/styles/overview_image_style/public/content/header-images/news/Meerkat_2880x875.jpg?itok=wplmhNQ6)
Celebrate World Meerkat Day at Taronga Western Plains Zoo!
Posted on 23rd June 2023 by Media Relations
![Happy World Camel Day!](/sites/default/files/styles/overview_image_style/public/content/header-images/news/Camel_day_2880_desktop.jpg?itok=YZXCfwna)
Celebrate World Camel Day at Taronga Western Plains Zoo!
Posted on 23rd June 2023 by Media Relations
![Stand tall for World Giraffe Day](/sites/default/files/styles/overview_image_style/public/content/header-images/news/Giraffe%20coat%20pattern%202880%20x%20875_1.jpg?itok=EmddngeD)
Celebrate World Giraffe Day this Wednesday, 21 June and learn about the tower of giraffes we have at Western Plains Zoo!
Posted on 22nd June 2023 by Media Relations
![World Giraffe Day 2023](/sites/default/files/styles/overview_image_style/public/content/header-images/news/Header_img_giraffe_twpz_2880.jpg?itok=9CNc7zlG)
Celebrate World Giraffe Day this Wednesday, 21 June and learn about the tower of giraffes we have at Western Plains Zoo!
Posted on 21st June 2023 by Media Relations
![Kanlaya turns 5!](/sites/default/files/styles/overview_image_style/public/content/header-images/news/Elephants_twpz_2880.jpg?itok=USAkQH1p)
This Wednesday, June 14 marks a very special day for the Asian Elephant herd at Taronga Western Plains Zoo – it’s Kanlaya’s 5th birthday!
Posted on 14th June 2023 by Media Relations
![Statement: 9 June 2023](/sites/default/files/styles/overview_image_style/public/default_images/header-fallback-foliage-2880_0.jpg?itok=CyZOhKkP)
Posted on 09th June 2023 by Media Relations
![Celebrating World Bongo and Otter Day!](/sites/default/files/styles/overview_image_style/public/content/header-images/news/3-week-old-Bongo-calf-3-2880_0.jpg?itok=tFFJSHOs)
In 2023, Wednesday May 31 is a very special day as we celebrate not one, but two very different species!
Posted on 01st June 2023 by Media Relations
![Taronga celebrates birth into Chimpanzee community](/sites/default/files/styles/overview_image_style/public/content/header-images/news/ChimpanzeeBaby_2880.jpg?itok=CVZPQpBJ)
Taronga Zoo Sydney is overjoyed to announce the arrival of a healthy baby born into the Zoo’s Chimpanzee community early this week. The female baby…
Posted on 30th May 2023 by Media Relations
![Statement - 30 May 2023](/sites/default/files/styles/overview_image_style/public/default_images/header-fallback-foliage-2880.jpg?itok=fLZaeamP)
Posted on 30th May 2023 by Media Relations
![Hay Plains students learn real-world conservation](/sites/default/files/styles/overview_image_style/public/content/header-images/news/Hay-Plains-students-learn-real-world-conservation---2880.jpg?itok=qbAQquPp)
Students in the state’s south-west are learning about efforts to save the critically endangered Plains-wanderer from extinction.
Posted on 29th May 2023 by Media Relations
![First Nations artist features at Vivid Sydney](/sites/default/files/styles/overview_image_style/public/content/header-images/news/Wild_Lights_Taronga_Zoo_Platypus_2880.jpg?itok=Y-ugruRt)
Wiradjuri artist Nathan Peckham will shine at this year’s Vivid Sydney with his original designs transformed into light art sculptures for Wild…
Posted on 29th May 2023 by Media Relations