Megafauna playground here for the holidays as Territory Wildlife Park’s newest tenants settle in

TERRITORY Wildlife Park yesterday unveiled its newest attraction – the Megafauna Playground – just in time for school holidays next week

TERRITORY Wildlife Park yesterday unveiled its newest attraction – the Megafauna Playground – just in time for school holidays next week.

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Park Visitor Services general manager Jasmine Jan said the new $150,000 playground would help engage young families and schoolchildren and would break up the day for the park’s visitors.

“The centrepiece of the playground is the Megalania, which is the giant goanna and it’s a climbable structure, so we’ll see kids climbing it and sliding off it,” she said.

The unveiling the new megafauna nature playground at the Territory Wildlife Park just in time for school holidays. Park designer and TWP General manager of visitor services Jasmine Jan. Picture: Che Chorley

“We want it to focus on Australia’s megafauna … also there’s a couple of recycled dinghy’s in there so children can imagine and role play their next maritime adventure looking for (fossils).”

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Ms Jan said investing in the park’s infrastructure would help keep tourists and locals coming through the gates.

“It’s critical to show people we are still open and operating and still here for visitors,” she said.