2nd February 2024 Auckland Zoo / Hamilton ZooBoth Hamilton and Auckland zoos are this week mourning the deaths of animals in their care.
17th January 2024 Auckland ZooAuckland Zoo’s giraffe Kiraka has given birth to a healthy female calf, estimated to be around six feet or 1.8 metres tall and weighing approximately 60kg.
19th May 2023 Auckland ZooSkinks, fairy terms, frogs and other wildlife will benefit from new research and conservation thanks to Auckland Zoo’s 2023 Aotearoa-focused Small Grants programme.
5th May 2023 Auckland ZooAuckland Zoo’s Sumatran tigers Zayana and Ramah have paired up as part of an international breeding and conservation advocacy programme.
17th April 2023 Auckland Zoo / DOCAuckland Zoo has farewelled 21 Kapitia skinks as part of their reintroduction to the Kapitia Scientific Reserve on the West Coast.
15th December 2022 Auckland Zoo / ConservationApplications must focus on one of the 150 species listed in the Department of Conservation’s Threatened Species Strategy.
17th November 2022 Auckland ZooTwo critically endangered Sumatran tigers have joined Auckland Zoo as part of an international breeding and advocacy programme.
20th September 2022 Auckland Zoo / AwardsAuckland Zoo has been awarded the sustainability and environmental impact accolade at the Facilities Management Association of New Zealand Awards.
19th September 2022 Auckland ZooAuckland Zoo has welcomed two freshwater crocodiles to its family ahead of the new South East Asia Jungle Track’s Indonesian swamp forest habitat, expected to open on Labour Weekend.
23rd August 2022 Auckland ZooThe calf was born to resident giraffes Kiraka and Billy and is estimated to reach almost two metres tall.
23rd June 2022 Auckland ZooAuckland Zoo is set to welcome a new baby giraffe in July, the first to be born at the attraction in five years.
29th March 2022 Auckland ZooAuckland Zoo is mourning the shock loss of Inkosi, a twenty-year-old African white rhino, to a sudden untreatable illness.
28th March 2022 Auckland ZooAuckland Zoo’s Christine Tintinger marks 40 years of care at the attraction.
8th November 2021 Auckland Zoo / Covid-19 / MuseumsAuckland Museum will join other attractions and open if the city moves to Covid-19 alert level 3 step 2.
23rd September 2021 Auckland ZooAuckland Zoo’s Jamila the southern white rhinoceros is pregnant.
17th September 2021 Auckland ZooThree African lionesses have arrived at Auckland Zoo from Australia and are currently undergoing quarantine there.
13th August 2021 Auckland ZooA penguin with a flipper wound that arrived three weeks ago from Waiheke Island’s Native Bird Rescue has joined Auckland Zoo’s penguin colony.
28th June 2021 Auckland ZooHabitat to be hot, steamy 28-degrees Celsius all year round.
16th June 2021 Auckland ZooTe Puna cafe becomes entry in 2022 New Zealand Architecture Awards.
