When Nick bought the park
in 2003, he had great plans for it, wanting to incorporate more exotic species
in with his native collection. As written earlier, over the past few years,
many more animals have been introduced to the park, including a pair of water
buffalos, a cassowary, a wedge tail eagle, Perenties, a scrub python and most
recently, two albino echidnas – possibly the only two in captivity.
Although the public are
very into the collection of wildlife at the zoo, it is the big ticket items
that bring in the customers. The Elephants. The Zebras. The Lions. For the past
five years, Nick has been working on bringing the big cats to the Shoalhaven;
where they can live out their lives at the zoo.
In the not so far future,
Nick would love for the zoo to expand further by introducing more exotic
animals to accompany and compliment the native creatures. He would obviously
like to start with lions, which he has already sourced a pair of breeding lions
from a zoo in Cairns, but there is still a large amount of paperwork and
whatnot to be done before anything can be finalised.
To think, only forty one
years ago, what is now known as an ideal tourist attraction and family day out
was once empty land. It wasn’t inhabited by over twenty eight exhibits and over
250 animals. The Shoalhaven Zoo is clearly a valuable asset to the South Coast.
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