Port Douglas wildlife park, Queensland: Prices & animals

Wildlife Habitat Port Douglas, the wildlife park in Port Douglas, has a conservation programme for injured animals in far north Queensland and a series of animal encounter experiences.

Port Douglas in far north Queensland is best known as the departure point for Great Barrier Reef cruises. But this Queensland resort town is not all about fish and coral. There are also encounters with land animals to be had.

Wildlife Habitat Port Douglas is one of many wildlife parks in Australia. As with the likes of Featherdale Wildlife Park in Doonside, Sydney, or the Boronong Wildlife Sanctuary near Hobart, you can hand-feed kangaroos and get your photo taken with a koala.

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But the Wildlife Habitat Port Douglas goes beyond the basics. For a start, there are five habitats – savannah, nocturnal, woodland, wetlands and rainforest.

Experiences at the Port Douglas wildlife park

There are also a series of special experiences available. These include Breakfast With The Birds. This involves, as the name suggests, having breakfast amongst eclectus parrots, lorikeets and cockatoos.

Other experiences include a nocturnal tour, including feeding sessions with creatures normally asleep in the day, and a junior keepers programme. The latter aims to give kids a taste of what being a zookeeper is like.

9 Port Douglas experiences to boost your holiday

Great Barrier Reef snorkelling tour – visiting three amazing snorkelling sites on the Outer Reef. This is the one for seeing the very best of the Reef.
Visit Agincourt Reef – with a cruise, underwater observatory and coral viewing in a semi-submersible. This is the best Port Douglas Reef tour for less confident swimmers.
Half-day Low Isles snorkelling tour – ideal for those with less time.
Daintree River wildlife cruise combo – see lots of crocs, then visit the cascades of Mossman Gorge.
Sunset sailing cruise – with welcome drinks and appetisers aboard a luxury catamaran.
Scenic helicopter flight – see the Great Barrier Reef from above.
Go fishing at a barramundi farm – with lunch included.
Aboriginal cultural walk – including bush tucker tasting and traditional hunting techniques.
Wildlife Habitat Port Douglas – meet all manner of native Australian animals.

But there is also a conservation ethos at this wildlife park in Port Douglas. The Tropical Animal Rehabilitation Centre at the site aims to treat and rehabilitate injured animals found nearby.

There’s also the successful breeding of the mahogany glider. Wildlife Habitat Port Douglas recently welcomed a mahogany glider joey.

Mahogany gliders at Wildlife Habitat Port Douglas

Given that there are only 1,500 of these cute marsupials in the world, the breeding programme at this wildlife park in Port Douglas is critically important for the survival of the species. The mahogany glider was once thought extinct, with none of them sighted for over a century.

The mum and joey currently live in Wildlife Habitat Port Douglas’ new Nocturnal Habitat.