Particularly Chitwah’s cub, now 10 weeks old. More than 200 animals, including monkeys, red pandas, lions, giraffes and rhinos call Mogo Zoo, north of Bateman's Bay, home. It was about the animals.”When the fire got close, the sky darkened and the wind whipped up. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.

Have you ever … Hero zoo boss  Chad Staples (pictured) is now housing dozens of rare animals in his own family home as he desperately tried to save them from the fireMogo Zoo director Chad Staples (pictured with actress Rebel Wilson) said his team managed to save all 200 animals'It was like Armageddon, it was black as midnight with tinges of red,' Mr Staples told 'There were calls for evacuation of the town at about 6am this morning, but the zoo's plan was always to defend the site as we can make it safe here for the animals. “It felt like something out of a nightmare,” she says of her experience fighting the fire. Lions, cheetahs, giraffes, gorillas and many many more to see. Never before in my life have I felt like I might not make it through the day.”The wind from the fire front was so hot, “your face felt like it was going to melt off”, says Sam Ion.As Staples recalls, it was about noon when he called triple zero and asked that a fire truck be dispatched to the zoo. Lion cub Phoenix, held by Mogo Zoo director Chad Staples, who waited until after the fire to name him.

The park is operated by Elanor Investment Group who also own Featherdale Wildlife Park in Sydney.In 2019 she sold the park to Elanor Investment Group who also own Featherdale Wildlife Park in Sydney.During the start of 2020 the park was surrounded by flames as bushfires ravaged Australia. And the iron. Explore our animal collection below. Hoses and buckets were at the ready. It’s like fireballs coming in.” Brookbanks was shocked. With bushfires bearing down on them, staff members at a NSW South Coast zoo had to choose whether to save themselves or stay and protect their animal charges.
If they did not save the zoo, no one would. Staff at the park managed to defend against the fire and no animals were lost.In 2020 the park opened a new veterinary hospital to help with the rehabilitation of native wildlife. Phoenix.Jane Cadzow is a senior writer with Good Weekend magazine.Sixteen zoo staff.

Zoo staff risked their own lives to save the animals from the raging bushfires that hit Mogo Tourists are urged visit the zoo and other bushfire-impacted businesses on the NSW south coast.
“The squirrel monkeys, for example, are one of the cheekier of the primate species – good pickpockets and that sort of thing.

Fran Campbell knew the term “ember attack” but says she hadn’t fully understood what it meant.

Ion was woken at 6am on New Year’s Eve by the news that the Currowan bushfire was heading for the zoo. People camped in the zoo’s offices, too. “Abandoned.”Early in the piece, the zoo had lost power, internet connection and phone reception (Staples made the emergency call when he fleetingly picked up a weak signal in one corner of the zoo).

Staples thought this could be the lifeline the zoo needed, but without access to the bureau’s website, all he could do was hope the change was coming.

I stood there and laughed, thinking, ‘This is insane.’ ”“When I looked around and saw fire on almost four sides of the zoo, I’m thinking, ‘Yeah, we’ve got problems.’ ”Brookbanks was acutely aware of the size of the challenge his team faced. “They can generally trace it back to a moment in their childhood when they knew there was no other option.” Like Fran Campbell, who worked unpaid at Mogo zoo for six months before being hired, many are willing to do long stints as volunteers to get a foot in the door. As a result, zoo staff were tasked with the massive effort of ensure the 81 acre property didn't become incinerated. At Mogo say hello to the largest collection of primates in Australia. Watch our Zebras and Southern White Rhinos wander the Savannah plains alongside our majestic Giraffes. The NSW Rural Fire Service released a dire warning for residents and holidaymakers on the New South Wales south coast. The battle to save the zoo made news around the world.When I visit a few weeks after the blaze, I bump into an Israeli TV crew near the giraffe paddock. “He wanted a bit of reassurance from me,” says the operations manager. “When I looked around and saw fire on almost four sides of the zoo, I’m thinking, ‘Yeah, we’ve got problems.’ ” He attributes their eventual success to the zoo’s two-way radio system. He now knows the RFS had no trucks to spare: its firefighters were fully occupied trying to save houses in Mogo and combatting other catastrophic blazes in the region. “I can’t imagine that many accountants frequently catch up with their accountant friends to talk about accounting, whereas zookeepers will certainly catch up with other zookeepers to talk about animals.”When I ask the Mogo keepers whether fighting the fire has brought them closer together, they say they have always been tight-knit. “It would have been awesome to have help,” Clive Brookbanks says. “So the plan was to make this a place we could defend,” he says. Didn’t jump in. “In the car were four bulldogs and two cats.

“It did no good whatsoever.


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