RENEW YOUR PLATYPUS ADOPTION
This time last year you took action for wildlife by symbolically adopting one of Australia's most-loved animals, the platypus.
Your generosity was put straight to good use. You’ve helped drive work for the protection of clean river systems that platypus need to thrive. As well as helping bring a platypus population back to Sydney’s Royal National Park – where they’d been locally extinct for more than 50 years! To ensure this progress can continue please renew your adoption today. Platypus still desperately need your protection.
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 and associated catastrophic bushfires and droughts, new dams, the over-extraction of water from rivers, landclearing, attacks by foxes, dogs, and cats, pollution and urban 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 support the implementation and monitoring of a unique rewilding program that reintroduced platypuses 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 and associated catastrophic bushfires and droughts, new dams, the over-extraction of water from rivers, landclearing, attacks by foxes, dogs, and cats, pollution and urban 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 support the implementation and monitoring of a unique rewilding program that reintroduced platypuses 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.
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How your symbolic adoption 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
Supporting the unique rewilding program that reintroduced platypuses to Australia's oldest national park, the Royal National Park, after they had been locally extinct for 50 years.
Ensuring platypus survival in the wild
By providing sensor cameras to monitor threats and acoustic transmitters to monitor reintroduced platypus, giving the teams a better understanding of potential threats to their survival and how to manage these – all to give the new generation of platypuses in the Royal National Park the best chance of survival.
Keep them as a critical part of healthy river ecosystems
Platypuses are river sentinels, acting as an indicator of overall river health. Restoring platypuses to rivers where they once thrived helps identify areas we can support to create healthier river ecosystems
Restoring their numbers and safeguarding their future
Contribute to valuable research that informs future conservation strategies and can help restore platypus populations in other areas where they have become locally extinct.