Cohunu Koala Park

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Cohunu Koala Park is a wildlife sanctuary on 14 hectares (35 acres) of bushland at Byford, near Perth, Western Australia. Its resident koalas are surrounded by neighbouring animals, including wombats, kangaroos, wallabies, quokkas, echidnas, dingoes, pigs, donkeys, ponies, llamas, alpacas, deers, ostriches, emus, owls, cockatoos, water birds, freshwater crocodiles and bobtails. Also found around the park are lifelike replicas of dinosaurs.

Lucille Sorbello and Nardino Sorbello established Cohunu Wildlife Sanctuary beginning in 1972 at 322 Mills Road East, Martin on approximately 16 hectares (40 acres) surrounded by natural bushland in the Darling escarpment near Gosnells and was opened to visitors in mid-1975. The park's koala colony was established in 1982 with the arrival of four koalas from South Australia, and the facility was renamed Cohunu Koala Park in September 1991. In 2009, the park was moved to its current location at 103 Nettleton Road, Byford.

Its koala colony now has over 25 koalas from both the northern koala (phascolarctos cinereus adustus) and the southern koala (phascolarctos cinereus victor) populations. Between 10 am and 4 pm daily, visitors to the park may be...