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Healesville Sanctuary has celebrated another world first breeding success with the arrival of twin Platypus known as puggles, the fourth set of twins to be born at the Sanctuary.

Our Australian Fur Seals are getting ready for Clean Up Australia Day this Sunday, 3 March and have volunteered their services to help the cause. Every year poorly discarded plastic and fishing waste kills up to 1 million sea birds, 100,000 sea mammals and countless fish.

Wilson the baby Echidna is one lucky guy, after being rescued from Main Street, Healesville last Sunday on a very hot afternoon.

Zoo Keeper Claire Gilder knows a thing or two about birds, and has something to chirp about, landing a job at Healesville Sanctuary looking after some of Australia’s rarest and quirkiest feathered friends.

Kangaroos, hawks, eagles - and now Magpies.

Healesville Sanctuary welcomed members from the Collingwood Football Club as part of the club's tour of the Yarra Valley.

Healesville Sanctuary is proud to support Xtinction at Three Stories Artspace Gallery, opening Saturday 23 February.

On Valentine’s Day ten years ago, intrepid scientists scaled the steep cliffs of Ball’s Pyramid to collect some of the world’s rarest insects.

Melburnians are proving a romantic bunch when it comes to the new after dark adult experience, I, Animal  at Melbourne Zoo.

Today is the fourth anniversary of the Black Saturday bushfires which caused so much personal tragedy in Healesville Sanctuary's local community.