9news.com.au | The Blacktown backyard about to become Sydney's newest zoo 9news.com.au Sixteen and a half hectares of dried grass and bushland, just a few hundred metres from the houses and families of Doonside, in Sydney's west. But in a little over a year, this slice of Western Sydney Parklands will be a virtual slice of Africa – and ... Cage-free zoo set to open at Blacktown in Sydney's west A 'Safari Like' Zoo Is Coming To Western Sydney A $36 million private African zoo will open next year in Western Sydney |