Koala Conservation Centre

The Koala Conservation Centre is an environmentally sustainable centre dedicated to protecting and conserving koalas.

The Koala Conservation Centre is conveniently located on the main road entering Phillip Island, about 145km from south-eastern Melbourne.

This unique conservation park boasts large acres of Australian bushland and grasslands that house an array of koalas, kangaroos, echidnas, and bats. Unlike a zoo, the Koala Conservation Centre allows visitors to see these magnificent creatures in their natural habitat.

The park has been designed so visitors can get close to the hundreds of koalas that call the conservation centre home. The boardwalks climb into the trees so you can see the koalas at eye level as they eat, sleep and climb. You might even get lucky and see some of the newborn babies as they cling to their mother’s backs.

To promote koala conservation, this environmentally minded attraction has been instrumental in saving the Phillip Islands’ natural koala habitat, which has seen the koalas in this area breed and grow in numbers. If you so choose, you can take a Koala Eco-Explorer Tour, where you will be taken around the park by a ranger and given behind-the-scenes information about the koalas and their life on Phillip Island.

There is also a visitor interpretation centre in the park, which provides important information about the various animals that live on Phillip Island and the conservation efforts being made to protect these beautiful Australian marsupials.