First-ever platypus translocation in NSW results in breeding success
Scientists and researchers have discovered a juvenile platypus in the Royal National Park, less than a year after ten platypuses were returned to the park...
21 March 2024
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Platypus return to Royal National Park for the first time in decades
Platypus have returned to Royal National Park, after being locally extinct for 50 years.
14 May 2023
Endangered bettongs complete 2,000km journey to new home in South Australia
A group of tiny, endangered marsupials has completed an epic 2,000 kilometre journey from Western Australia to a new home on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula.
29 July 2022
Platypus to make a comeback in Australia's oldest national park
UNSW researchers are teaming up with WWF-Australia, Taronga Zoo and NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service to bring platypuses back into the Royal National...
5 September 2021
Landmark research finds the platypus should be listed as a threatened species
The parts of Australia where platypuses are found has shrunk by at least 22% or about 200,000 km² – an area almost three times the size of Tasmania – in the...
23 November 2020