Wildlife Tourism Australia (WTA) is a not-for-profit incorporated association representing tourist operations, educators, researchers, businesses, and societies that support sustainable wildlife tourism in Australia.
WTA welcomes new members and research projects.
See the code of conduct for our members.
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Explore our menus for
- Wildlife experiences around Australia and beyond
- Research and general literature
- How to tread lightly when traveling
- Information on wildlife and their habitats
- Discussion of issues
- Coming events
- Reports of past conferences and workshops
- Good-practice wildlife interpretation
- Tourism and conservation, etc.
Wildlife Tourism Australia is a member of Ecotourism Australia and of Protect The Bush Alliance. It is also represented on the interpretation working group of the National Geotourism Strategy
We are also working with theBiodiversity Working Group within IUCN’s TAPAS in developing a compendium of guidelines for minimal-impact wildlife-viewing guidelines
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Next WTA conference (28-30 October) 2026, at Healesville Sanctuary, Victoria: “Wildlife Tourism Fighting Extinction.” Call for papers and expressions of interest now open.
Conference in WA, probably September or October 2027. Details TBA later this year
Wildlife webinars: Information on wildlife to be seen near Brisbane, Future webinars are postponed, to start again late 2026 or 2027
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Please also visit: Coming-events for WTA events and other events relevances to wildlife tourism
Recent events
Conference. Wild Tails: the Value of Story-telling and other Quality Interpretation in Wildlife Tourism. Hastings Point, NSW 5-7 November 2024 Report available soon
Wildlife Tourism workshop associated with Indonesia/Australia Geofest, Sydney, July 2024
Download a detailed report on our 2022 conference here: “Wildlife tourism assisting wildlife: making it really happen!”
See also:
Wildlife Tourism Australia on Linked-In
