Ten platypuses were released into Australia’s oldest national park, just south of Sydney, last May. The animals are thriving and at least one puggle was born last spring.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Platypuses are back in the Royal National Park for the first time in 50 years and at least one puggle was born last spring.
On Saturday, the team caught one of the adult females released last year: Delphi, who hails from the Snowy River near Dalgety. On Sunday, they caught a healthy juvenile female about six months old.Dr Phoebe Meagher, the wildlife conservation officer at Taronga Zoo responsible for platypus conservation programs, said a platypus had not been seen in the park for decades before the release last year.
Peabody Energy’s coal mine, Metropolitan Colliery, has spilled coal pollution in the river several times in the past few years, prompting legal action from the NSW Environment Protection Authority. Platypus are found in south-eastern Australia and populations are declining, with some local extinctions. They are listed as endangered in South Australia and vulnerable in Victoria, but are not listed nationally or in NSW, Queensland or the ACT.Bino was part of a push to list the platypus as threatened in 2020, but the federal government’s expert committee knocked it back for insufficient evidence.
The captive platypuses were taken to a purpose-built facility at Taronga Zoo in Sydney where they stayed for two to four weeks. The benchmark for success is a 50 per cent survival rate after 12 months, so the project exceeded expectations.
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