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A juvenile little penguin currently in care.

A dog was off leash on a Sydney beach. A little penguin paid the price

Manly has the only breeding colony of fairy penguins on mainland NSW. The population has plummeted from 70 pairs in 2013-2014 to 15 pairs in 2024-2025.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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Manly is home to the only mainland breeding colony of little penguins in NSW, but they are especially vulnerable during moulting season.
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Sydney's penguins

Manly is home to the only mainland breeding colony of little penguins in NSW, but they are especially vulnerable during moulting season.

A Sydney tracking project is revealing the secrets of one of the world’s most beloved marine creatures

Think you can see this exotic creature only on holiday? Try closer to home

A world-leading project has revealed one of the world’s most exotic and charismatic creatures calls Sydney beaches home.

  • Angus Dalton
Jane Goodall at the Taronga Zoo, Sydney, May 2014.

Jane Goodall had ‘old friends’ in Sydney, but rebuked Australian conservation efforts

“Australia is not doing well at all,” said Goodall, who had a close relationship with Sydney’s Taronga Zoo, on one of her many visits.

  • Amy Ripley
The revised design for the lower station of Taronga Zoo’s proposed Sky Safari on Sydney’s lower north shore.

‘Visual scar’: Controversial Taronga Zoo project to go ahead

A rumble in the jungle is ignited on Sydney’s north shore after a decision was handed down on the construction of new $105 million tourism drawcard.

  • David Barwell
An artist’s impression of the lower station for Taronga Zoo’s revised Sky Safari proposal.

‘Sydney’s next eyesore’: Taronga Zoo’s cable car bill soars to $105m

The famous zoo says new gondolas will make the tourist attraction more accessible. Critics say the towering structure will scar the harbour foreshore.

  • Megan Gorrey
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Parnee Bonson from Taronga Zoo with a species of snail from Norfolk Island that nearly went extinct.

The aphrodisiac that unlocked the secret sex life of snails

Fifteen specimens of a species of Norfolk Island snail thought to be extinct until 2020 have multiplied into 800 over four years in a captive breeding program.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The author with African lion cub triplets Bruiser, Shinyanga and Njeri, in 2000. “Every day was different and exciting, even if the lunchroom was heavy with testosterone,” she says of her time at Taronga Zoo.

At my dream job in the ’80s, the chauvinism surprised me: I blame early zoologists

When Erna Walraven became a zookeeper in the 1980s, she found the attitudes to women positively Darwinian.

  • Erna Walraven
The nine-week-old Australian Sea Lion pup made her public debut on Wednesday.

Endangered Australian sea lion pup makes splash in first public appearance

The nine-week-old pup required gentle maternal encouragement before diving into the water at Taronga Zoo.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo
The 14 kilogram pup is learning to swim and hold its breath.

Endangered Australian sea lion pup born at Taronga

The birth of one of Australia’s rarest marine predators has injected critical genetic diversity into the zoo’s captive insurance population.

  • Angus Dalton