ADOPT A PLATYPUS
Platypus are rapidly disappearing from our landscapes. You can help bring them back.
Protect our platypus today
Many Australian animals are unusual in their own way. But the platypus is the most unique of them all. They’re mammals that lay eggs and have a bill and flippers, which is an amazing evolutionary feat. But in the last 150 to 200 years, they’ve come under threat.
The changing climate, new dams, the over-extraction of water from rivers, land clearing, attacks by foxes and dogs, pollution and suburban sprawl present serious threats to platypus.
The platypus is facing a silent extinction. Please take action now to protect them and their habitat.
Symbolically adopting a platypus today can help research and monitor their populations across eastern states and implement a unique rewilding program to reintroduce healthy platypus back into areas where they once thrived.
Your generosity will be a symbol of your support for conservation and animal advocacy, ensuring our amazing platypus remain in our local ecosystems forever.
Protect our platypus today
Many Australian animals are unusual in their own way. But the platypus is the most unique of them all. They’re mammals that lay eggs and have a bill and flippers, which is an amazing evolutionary feat. But in the last 150 to 200 years, they’ve come under threat.
The changing climate, new dams, the over-extraction of water from rivers, land clearing, attacks by foxes and dogs, pollution and suburban sprawl present serious threats to platypus.
The platypus is facing a silent extinction. Please take action now to protect them and their habitat.
Symbolically adopting a platypus today can help research and monitor their populations across eastern states and implement a unique rewilding program to reintroduce healthy platypus back into areas where they once thrived.
Your generosity will be a symbol of your support for conservation and animal advocacy, ensuring our amazing platypus remain in our local ecosystems forever.
How your donation can help threatened platypus
By adopting a platypus today, you’ll be supporting the return of this unique species to areas they once thrived.
Rewilding the platypus to their natural habitat
By purchasing vital equipment to safely translocate platypus so they have the best chance of survival post-release.
Ensuring platypus survival in the wild
By providing the tools to assess their well-being and keep them healthy.
Keep them as a critical part of healthy river ecosystems
By purchasing underwater cameras that are essential to monitoring their numbers and distribution.
Restoring their numbers and safeguarding their future
By tracking post-release platypus populations using specialist acoustic equipment.
We can’t protect the platypus without you
When you adopt a platypus, you’ll be joining them on their journey to a safer future. Your special adoption gift pack includes an optional cuddly platypus plush toy, fact book, adoption certificate, Living Planet magazine and WWF sticker. You’ll also receive updates on how your generous donations are helping to conserve and protect the platypus and other Aussie wildlife.
Give a unique and memorable gift
A platypus adoption is the perfect gift for any animal lover as well as a great way to inspire friends, family and loved ones to care for nature as much as you do. We can send this gift pack to you or directly to your gift recipient. For last-minute gifts, you can print a personalised adoption certificate or email it directly to your gift recipient.