Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve is home to a wide range of Australian animals living in diverse sub-alpine habitats including wetlands, grasslands, wet and dry forests and woodlands. These habitats support a wide range of wildlife including kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, platypus, potoroos, bandicoots, wallaroos, echidnas, emus, lyrebirds and many other birds and reptiles.
Tidbinbilla plays a vital role in wildlife management and protection. We work together with other institutions to protect threatened species and find ways to improve reintroduction success and survivability outside of fenced environments.
Tidbinbilla has 100ha of feral-predator free habitat within 20 free ranging enclosures. This lets animals that are part of species recovery programs to exist as they would in the wild.
In 2020, a new 120ha Safe Haven for Brush-tailed Rock Wallabies was constructed, doubling the area of feral predator-free habitat for threatened species recovery. A frog breeding facility means numbers of the critically endangered Northern Corroboree Frog can be increased for reintroduction purposes.
Threatened Species Conservation
Tidbinbilla is a leader in conservation research through its work on the Southern Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby, Northern Corroboree Frog, Grassland Earless Dragon and its contribution to the recovery of the Eastern Bettong. State of the art facilities, including a fully equipped veterinary surgery, support the success of the program.
You can read more about these and other animals in the Threatened Species listing.