The Australian Venom Zoo’s main principle is to teach the public more about venomous animals and how we are incorporating this into work with bio-pharmaceutical companies.
All of the Venom that is supplied from the Australian Venom Zoo, goes towards developing the worlds most cutting edge medicines, through molecular biology. We tell people on a tour of the zoo that the top 65% of medicines or drugs are derived from Botany right now.
Within the next 5 to 10 years, all of the cutting edge medicines will be created using venom or biology.
This is not a new concept though since Indigenous people all throughout the world have been using these as medicines for thousands of years.
We aim to educate the general public that their are some great things being developed because of the deadliest animals in the world.
