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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.

Join Wildlife Tourism Australia

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

Coming Events

Several webinars in planning stage

Next WTA conference 2026

Please visit: Coming-events for both WTA events and other relevant events

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!”

Wildlife Tourism: Overcoming hurdles: Webinar 2021

See also:

Wildlife Tourism Australia on Linked-In