Auckland Zoo’s South East Asia Jungle Track, the biggest project in its history, fully opens at Labour Weekend.

The award-winning track, featuring interconnecting wildlife habitats with a lake and wetlands at its heart, is a highly immersive nature experience that has transformed one fifth of the zoo’s grounds.

Habitats include a ‘high canopy’ for orangutans and siamangs, ‘lowlands’ for Sumatran tigers and Asian small-clawed otters, and an ‘Indonesian swamp forest’ for fish, Sunda gharial crocodiles and other reptiles, living within a large climate-controlled dome.

The first of its kind in New Zealand, the swamp forest will be an authentically tropical 28°C year round and features species that are all new to the zoo.

The $62 million transformation was funded through Auckland Council’s long-term plan. Visit aucklandzoo.co.nz/south-east-asia to find out more