Billabong Sanctuary, Wildlife sanctuary in Nome, Queensland, Australia.
Billabong Sanctuary is a wildlife park covering 11 hectares in Queensland, home to more than 70 species of Australian mammals, birds, and reptiles. The park is organized around a natural billabong water feature that serves as its central focal point.
Billabong Sanctuary is an 11-hectare wildlife sanctuary at Nome, 17 kilometres south of Townsville in North Queensland. Its breeding programs cover the southern cassowary, estuarine crocodile, koala, eclectus parrot and black-headed python, with the greater bilby added in September 2016. It won the Townsville City Council Environmental Excellence Award in 1999 and North Queensland Tourism Awards for eco-tourism in 2002 and 2006.
The name comes from the natural billabong at the centre of the 11-hectare site, a waterhole that draws visiting animals, some of which breed and raise young there. Guided and self-guided walks through the tropical bush let visitors see kangaroos, koalas, cassowaries and estuarine crocodiles at close range.
The sanctuary lies at Nome, 17 kilometres south of Townsville, and covers 11 hectares of natural tropical bush that visitors walk through on guided or self-guided tours. The natural billabong sits at the centre of the grounds, so routes circle this lake where visiting animals come to drink and nest.
The sanctuary's breeding programs cover six species: the southern cassowary, estuarine crocodile, koala, eclectus parrot, black-headed python and, since September 2016, the greater bilby. The bilby program is the most recent addition to the list.
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