Kula Eco Park

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Kula Eco Park is located on Fiji's Coral Coast, approximately 5 kilometer's south of the town of Sigatoka. Established as a bird park in the late 1980's, the park was taken over by Kula Eco Park Management in January 1997. Privately owned and run, its focus is the preservation of Fiji's indigenous flora and fauna, including reptiles, bird life, amphibians, tropical fish, the Fiji Flying Fox (Fiji's only native mammal), insects, butterflies and a wide range of trees and shrubs. With extensive and well maintained walkways through the local bush, and a wide range of attractions, the Park is a popular tourist attraction.

In 1998, (in cooperation with the International Conservation Fund for the Fijian Crested Iguana and the Zoological Parks Board of New South Wales, Australia) the park established a captive breeding programme for the critically endangered Fiji Crested Iguana and seven juveniles were successfully raised.^[1]

In 2007, (in cooperation with the Biological Sciences Division at the University of the South Pacific) the park commenced a captive breeding programme for the endangered Fiji Ground Frog.^[2]

The park is a member of ARAZPA (the Australasian Regional Association of Zoological Parks and Aquaria).

[edit] Sources and external links

• Website - Kula Eco Park