Each giraffe has its own unique pattern. This patchy pattern helps the giraffes hide amongst trees.
Appeals
Asian Elephant Conservation Breeding Program
Please support our Asian Elephant Conservation Breeding Program.
In the last 75 years the wild population of the Asian Elephant has dramatically fallen by 70% to as low as 35,000. Now classified as endangered, the Asian Elephant faces an uncertain future with loss of habitat and poaching major threats to its survival.
Taronga has joined forces with zoos across Australia in a conservation breeding program for Asian Elephants. The birth of Luk Chai, the first Asian Elephant born in Australia, marks a great success for Taronga’s breeding program. We need to continue this important program to raise awareness and help ensure the species’ survival.
Please help support us in this long-term project and move closer to our goal of helping safeguard these intelligent and incredible animals. Whatever you can give, however small, will help.
Do something amazing today
You can do something amazing today and help save a species. The Tassie Devil needs your help right now as it is facing extinction in the wild.
I'm Nick De Vos and one of my responsibilities as a senior keeper is managing the Tassie Devils at Taronga Zoo. Tassie Devils are being wiped out in the wild at an alarming rate due to a horrific cancer. Taronga and Taronga Western Plains Zoos are working with other zoos across Australia to breed an insurance population of devils to release back into the wild when it's safe to do so.
Frog Appeal
Frogs are facing the greatest species extinction crisis since the demise of the dinosaurs.
It is not widely known that nearly half of all amphibian species world-wide are declining and threatened with extinction.
