Wildlife Zoos & Theme Parks

Many of the Cairns wild life attractions cater to different themes so check the lists below to see which animal attractions catch your family’s attention. Some Cairns wildlife attractions are listed in a number of categories as they have a variety of different animals.

Flights of Fantasy - Cairns Birds & Butterflies

• Birdworld
• Daintree Mangroves Wildlife Sanctuary (Daintree Wild Zoo)
• Australian Butterfly Sanctuary
• Cairns Wildlife Dome

Cold Blooded Bities - Cairns Reptiles

• Hartley's Crocodile Adventures
• Marineland Melanesia
• Rainforestation Nature Park Kuranda
• Daintree Mangroves Wildlife Sanctuary (Daintree Wild Zoo) 

Cute, Furry Cairns Creatures - Mammals

• Hartley's Crocodile Adventures
• Wildlife Habitat Port Douglas
• Rainforestation Nature Park Kuranda
• Cairns Wildlife Dome
• Kuranda Koala Gardens
• Daintree Wild Zoo

Group Bookings, Incentive Groups, Cairns Conference Enquiries

If you have any questions about booking an incentive, conference or school group to hold a function or special event dinner at any of the wildlife parks on this page or if you have some other specific requests, please Contact us at info@cairnsholidayspecialists.com.au  detailing  you're group requirements or if you prefer please call us on (07 ) 4059 5959 so you may speak to one of our conference group specialists. Please include any information that will help us assist you to put the conference event together, including the number of conference delegates or members in your group or the ages of your children and we will help you choose the best Cairns or Port Douglas Wildlife experience for your group.

Cairns Wildlife Day Tour Bookings

While all of the wildlife parks in Cairns allow walk in visitors and charge an entry fee, most parks are in out of the way locations which don't allow easy access without a rent a car or a coach transfer. For this reason, there are many day tour operators in Cairns who package entry to many of the wildlife parks as part of their full day or half day tours.

This is great because many of the animal parks are smaller boutique specialty zoos where people can spend two or more hours in with the interactive animal shows being run and repeated thru the day to ensure you do not miss anything.

Please take a peek at the Tour Tab above to see the list of tour companies that will take you and your family to the wildlife parks of Cairns Tropical North Queensland as part of their sightseeing tours and activities below.

There are many flexible Kuranda Skyrail and Scenic Rail package due to the overwhelming number of visitors who wish to experience the regions wildlife attractions of Kuranda and Cairns combined with the Skyrail Cableway and Kuranda Scenic Railway all in just one day. Free entry to the top three wildlife attractions in Kuranda is now included in your ticket; Birdworld, The Australian Butterfly Sanctuary and Koala Gardens. This tour package is an outstanding and comprehensive tour of the most popular tourist attractions in Kuranda and a great value combination day tour.

Your Skyrail experience will take approximately 1½ hours one way, and your Kuranda Scenic Railway 1¾ hours. Skyrail can commence or conclude at either the Caravonica or Kuranda, and the Kuranda Scenic Railway can commence or conclude at Cairns Central Station, Freshwater Station or Kuranda Station depending on your preferred direction of travel and location.

Booking in advance is required as the Kuranda Train and Skyrail are the top tourist attractions and tickets are via pre-purchase only. Both attractions frequently book out during peak season and school holidays. Prices are per person; families please review the child policy also.

Tropical North Queensland Animals on Extinction List

Indigenous animals that we may never have seen nor ever heard or read about are vital to the health and management of our surrounding environment in ways we probably have never taken the time to even think about. They go about their daily and night time rituals of gardening and distributing seeds and cleaning our waterways and keeping the eco balance in order. The Cycle of Life – The Food Chain. Without these animals humans would not be able to survive on this planet!

No wonder Sir David Attenborough thinks The Great Barrier Reef "is surely the world’s most incredible environment", he also said about the Daintree & Cape Tribulation Rainforest "People think the Amazon is a great place for jungles. But the north of Queensland is fantastic, and very few people go there".

Some Of The Highly Endangered Animal Species of Tropical North Queensland Australia

The spotted-tailed quoll or tiger quoll (a carnivorous marsupial), Spectacled Flying Fox, a huge amount of various frog species, the Northern Bettong (a potoroid marsupial), Water Mouse, Bridled Nailtailed Wallaby, Northern Hairy Nosed Wombat, Mahogany Glider, Northern Bettong, Southern Spotted Tailed Quoll, Greater Bilby, Julie Creek Dunnart (a marsupial), Dugong, Blue Whale, and many species of sea turtle.

Donate Today: You can help to save these animals (which are also vital to human survival) and the rainforests for future generations by donating to Rainforest Rescue, Cairns Turtle Rehabilitation Centre, Seashepherd, Greenpeace.

Some of the reasons animals of Tropical North Queensland Australia are on the endangerment of extinction list are due to loss of habitat thru the introduction of non-indigenous grasses and aquatic plants, the introduction of cane toads, feral pigs, die back of trees by root fungus, loss of terrestrial climatic habitat caused by anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases, domestic animals such as cats, dogs, fish, sheep, cattle and of course human invasion of habitats with rainforest destruction, the use of chemicals in farming, poaching and illegal trade.