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Sunday Telegraph By KATHLEEN DONAGHEY CROCS, corals and conches: they are Australia’s threatened wildlife and they are turning big money for exporters. Fashion demand for reptile leather has more than doubled the export of protected saltwater crocodile skins to places such as Singapore, France and Italy. About 52.000 skins and skin pieces left our shores in 2010, as well as 2559 leathe ...]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 CST 03 February 2012

Sunshine Coast Daily By KATE CLIFFORD HUNDREDS of snakes have been removed from Sunshine Coast homes so far this year. Australia Zoo Rescue Unit has been inundated with calls from residents concerned by potentially deadly reptiles in their backyards, garages and garden sheds. Around five call-outs a day were made to the rescue unit last month and more than 160 snakes removed. Kate Cou ...]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 CST 20 January 2012

The Courier Mail By KATHLEEN DONAGHEY IT WAS the ultimate pig-out at Australia Zoo yesterday for Charlie the saltwater crocodile’s first public feeding on a whole boar in the Crocoseum. The hulking, ravenous reptile put on a show for hundreds of summer tourists, who gasped and clapped during what could be dubbed "the reptilian long lunch". It took about 30 minutes for the croc to devou ...]]> Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 CST 20 January 2012

Sunshine Coast Daily By MARK FURLER PIGS really do fly - especially when they have Charlie the Crocodile lunging at them. A packed Crocoseum was treated to a feast of entertainment as the carcass of a feral wild boar was fed to the savage saltie yesterday. "It’s never been done before (in the Crocoseum) so we gave it to him and off he went. It was incredible," an animated Bindi Irwin s ...]]> Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 CST 18 January 2012

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The Sunday Mail AUSTRALIA Zoo’s big cat handler is changing his stripes. Giles Clark’s day job is looking after tigers at the Sunshine Coast zoo and that includes plenty of play time with them. "Our hands-on relationship allows us to provide them with a lot more stimulation and a lot more enrichment than would otherwise normally be possible," he says. But in his spare time, his he ...]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 CST 11 January 2012

Sunshine Coast Daily By Trevor Hockins and AAP WILDLIFE campaigner Tern Irwin said yesterday she was looking forward to the day when Sea Shepherd ships and crew no longer had to try to protect whales. Ms Irwin, who operates Australia Zoo at Beerwah, was speaking after Prime Minister Julia Gillard said an operation to retrieve three Australian anti-haling activists from a Japanese security v ...]]> Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 CST 06 January 2012

Sunshine Coast Daily A KOALA that was shot seven times with an air rifle has died during an operation to remove one of the pellets that was lodged in his head. Fleet the koala won the hearts of Queenslanders after he was found peppered with slugs high in a tree at Kippa- Ring, north of Brisbane, last October. Although Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital vets had been able to remove just three o ...]]> Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 CST 30 December 2011

Sunshine Coast Daily By KATE CLIFFORD IMAGINE a world without tigers. These majestic cats are close to extinction, with just 3500 remaining in the wild. It is believed one tiger is killed every day, which means the entire population could be eradicated by 2020. Tiger conservation groups have recently recognised Australia Zoo on the Sunshine Coast as one of the largest contributors in ...]]> Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 CST 27 December 2011

Sunshine Coast Daily By KATHY SUNDSTROM LIVING at Australia Zoo can have its challenges. Robert can’t just zip around on the new mountain bike he got for his birthday. He has to check where the cheetahs and tigers are before heading off in the huge complex. And he and Bindi go back to school on Thursday - a lot earlier than most youngsters their age. But the two Irwin kids litera ...]]> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:00:00 CST