Reptile Centre Alice Springs - private ownership, which assembled the largest collection of reptiles in the Northern Territory. Here you can see a lizard perenti, plaschenosuyu lizard Moloch, large and small, and the pion poisonous snakes, including Taipan, false cobra Australian Agrionemys and very dangerous royal brown snake. The center is a popular tourist attraction, which also hosts eco-educational programs.

All the "cold-blooded" the inhabitants of the center - Indigenous Australians. Many were caught in the homes of local residents, in the yard or brought from the territories under a special program set fire to prevent the devastating summer fires. Some reptiles, by the way, and then returned to the wild. The center's employees also go on a call in the home, in which poisonous snakes climb and catch them.

Based Neyndorfom Rex, a former trainer reptile center was opened in January 2000. Today, it contains more than 100 reptiles, representing 30 species, which often appear on television documentaries and informative pages of magazines such as «National Geographic».

In 2002, in the center of the exposition dedicated to saltwater crocodiles, and in 2006 - the exposure of fossils, telling about the evolution of reptiles during the last 200 million years. Interestingly, the sponsor of this exhibition was the Australian Tourism Development Association.

Several times in its history, the inhabitants of the center have been attacked by people. So, in 2004, two 13-year-old boys broke into the center and batons attacked the crocodile, breaking his teeth and inflicting several wounds. In 2008, another 7-year-old boy entered the facility after closing and made a real massacre, which resulted in killing 13 animals! Killed in particular 20-year-old Spencer lizard, turtle, lizard and bearded lizard Moloch. Some animals juvenile delinquent threw over the fence in the enclosure to the 200-pound saltwater crocodiles. After this incident, which was widely publicized around the world, in the Northern Territory has been seriously revised the punishment for offenders who were under 10 years of age.