Essential maintenance and upgrades

We do everything we can to make sure you have an amazing experience every time you visit Auckland Zoo.

To ensure we’re meeting the requirements of a good modern zoo today and into the future, it’s necessary that we carry out essential ongoing maintenance and upgrades to our animal habitats and visitor spaces.

On this page, you’ll find information on what areas of our Zoo are currently being worked on. We aim to have the most up to date information available, however please be aware that weather and other circumstances can impact these dates.

The Australia Bush Track is now fully open!

You’ll see some changes to our Australia Bush Track.

To welcome some new species to our Zoo whānau – kangaroos and frilled necked lizards! – some essential upgrades needed to take place in key areas on the track.

The arrival of a mob of Eastern grey kangaroo from Australia has unfortunately been delayed, but these Aussie icons are still coming – they’ll just be arriving a little later into 2025.

A fabulous addition to the track is an expansive new 4m high habitat for rock-dwelling skinks and arboreal dragons. Already moved in and making themselves at home are 18 Cunningham’s skinks. Joining them in 2025 will be some spectacular frilled-necked dragons – an extraordinary and unique arboreal lizard native to northern Australia - which will be new to the Zoo and a first for New Zealand.

Read all about the Australian Bush Track reopening