Chuditch (Western Quoll)
Vulnerable
Threatened species recovery
Protecting Australia’s unique biodiversity
Recovering threatened species is vital to protecting Australia’s unique biodiversity. Many native plants and animals exist nowhere else, so conservation efforts help restore ecosystems, prevent extinctions, and maintain the environmental balance essential for future generations. Taronga is proud to work with partners across government, university and conservation organisations to return animals back to the wild.
Protecting Australia’s unique biodiversity
Recovering threatened species is vital to protecting Australia’s unique biodiversity. Many native plants and animals exist nowhere else, so conservation efforts help restore ecosystems, prevent extinctions, and maintain the environmental balance essential for future generations. Taronga is proud to work with partners across government, university and conservation organisations to return animals back to the wild.
Species on the brink
2,000+
threatened species live in Australia, with 50% classified as endangered or critically endangered.
Australia has the fastest mammal extinction rate of any country
3+ billion
animals were killed or displaced during the Black Summer bushfires.
100+ species
have been lost in Australia since European invasion.
34 species
were added to the country’s threatened species list in 2026.
619 fauna species
are threatened in Australia.
2,000+
threatened species live in Australia, with 50% classified as endangered or critically endangered.
Australia has the fastest mammal extinction rate of any country
3+ billion
animals were killed or displaced during the Black Summer bushfires.
100+ species
have been lost in Australia since European invasion.
34 species
were added to the country’s threatened species list in 2026.
619 fauna species
are threatened in Australia.
Threatened species recovery programs
Bellinger River Turtles
Critically Endangered
Booroolong Frogs
Endangered
Christmas Island Blue-tailed Skink
Critically Endangered
Lister’s Gecko
Critically endangered
Greater Bilbies
Vulnerable
Plains-wanderers
Critically Endangered
Regent Honeyeaters
Critically Endangered
Campbell’s Keeled Glass Snail
Extinct in the Wild
Southern Corroboree Frog
Critically Endangered
Northern Corroboree Frog
Critically Endangered
Yellow-spotted Bell Frog
Critically Endangered
Platypus
Near Threatened
Purple-spotted Gudgeon
Endangered
Our impact
Wildlife Hospitals
To date, Taronga has released more than 60,000 animals into the wild through its conservation breeding programs.
Southern & Northern Corroboree Frogs
12,000+ eggs and 2,500+ Corroboree Frogs have been bred at Taronga Zoo Sydney and released to their original range.
Regent Honeyeaters
Over 30 years, Taronga has bred and released 480+ Regent Honeyeaters, with around 150 currently held across both Zoos.
Platypus release program
In May 2023, 10 Platypus were released into Royal National Park after 50 years of absence - the first NSW translocation - with four juveniles since recorded.
Supporting species’ resilience
Taronga works hard to support species and ecosystems’ resilience and recovery.
Wildlife Hospitals
To date, Taronga has released more than 60,000 animals into the wild through its conservation breeding programs.
Southern & Northern Corroboree Frogs
12,000+ eggs and 2,500+ Corroboree Frogs have been bred at Taronga Zoo Sydney and released to their original range.
Regent Honeyeaters
Over 30 years, Taronga has bred and released 480+ Regent Honeyeaters, with around 150 currently held across both Zoos.
Platypus release program
In May 2023, 10 Platypus were released into Royal National Park after 50 years of absence - the first NSW translocation - with four juveniles since recorded.
Supporting species’ resilience
Taronga works hard to support species and ecosystems’ resilience and recovery.
Koala Sentinel Program
Taronga has been engaged by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water to deliver the Koala Capture and Veterinary Processing component of the Koala Sentinel Program, part of the broader NSW Koala Strategy.
At Taronga, we believe that all of us have a responsibility to protect the world’s wildlife, not just for us in our lifetimes, but for future generations. With habitat loss, climate change, rising temperatures and increasingly severe weather events, it has never been a more important for us to use our diverse skillsets to save species on the brink.
Cameron Kerr AO
CEO
Taronga Conservation Society Australia
Conservation stories
Feb 26, 2026
Record release leaps Booroolong Frog back from the brink
Conservationists have celebrated a major turning point for one of NSW’s most threatened amphibians with the release of 1,200 endangered Booroolong Frogs near Tamworth in the largest release of Taronga-bred frogs to the wild to date.
Apr 12, 2026
Wild Platypus recovering at Taronga after fishing-line flipper injury
A male platypus is rehabilitating at Taronga Zoo’s Platypus Refuge, after nine-weeks of intensive care under Taronga Wildlife Hospital’s expertise following an extensive flipper injury caused by fishing line entanglement.
Apr 14, 2026
Big comeback for tiny creatures: critically endangered snails returned to the wild on Norfolk Island
A species once thought extinct has begun its slow crawl back into the wild. Last month, more than 300 Campbell’s Keeled Glass-Snails (Advena campbellii) were released into Norfolk Island National Park — marking the first large-scale snail translocation and reintroduction ever attempted in Australia and its surrounding islands.
