Kia Ora
Welcome to EcoWorld Aquarium & Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre
Discover some of the amazing animals that make New Zealand unique...
Open every day
from 9.30am
(03) 573 6030
Picton Foreshore
Animal Of the month
The tuatara is an extremely rare reptile only found in New Zealand. It resembles a lizard but is part of a distinct lineage, “Rhynchocephalia” order. Tuatara are the only surviving members of this order which flourished in the dinosaur age around 200 million years ago. Tuatara are also called “living fossils”.
"Touch a Tuatara" daily 11am & 2pm