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Death trap: Killing Australian wildlife with everyday items

"Flying foxes make up two-thirds of all entanglement cases in NSW"

"But it’s not just flying foxes – entanglements affect hundreds of different species, mostly mammals and birds, including kangaroos, platypus, raptors and gliders....Hungry animals, especially flying foxes, birds and possums, are attracted to flowers and fruits, and get easily caught in “large-aperture” nets, where the mesh size is greater than 5mm. The rule of thumb is that if you can poke a finger through it, it’s not safe for wildlife."

"Aquatic debris makes up about 10% of entanglement cases, according to NSW wildlife rescue data. Fishing line is probably the most difficult type of litter for platypus to cope with, and causes horrendous injuries – it basically just cuts through the skin.” >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/11/everyday-items-catching-killing-native-animals-how-to-help-tangled-wildlife
#biodiversity #wildlife #bats #birds #platypus #traps #entanglement #fencing #netting #FishingGear #Plastic #garbage #BarbedWire #fences #Hairties #fruit #food #gardens
Image: Grey-headed flying foxes mosaic, Bellingen

Platypus population in Australia’s oldest national park increases to at least 20

The scientist behind the historic reintroduction of platypuses into Royal National Park says the delicate project is starting…
#NewsBeep #News #Australia #AU #DrGiladBino #MetropolitanMine #oilspill #Peabody #platypus #platypuses #RoyalNationalPark #translocationproject #unsw
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/686398/

Platypus population in Australia’s oldest national park increases to at least 20

The scientist behind the historic reintroduction of platypuses into Royal National Park says the delicate project is starting…
#NewsBeep #News #Australia #AU #DrGiladBino #MetropolitanMine #oilspill #Peabody #platypus #platypuses #RoyalNationalPark #translocationproject #unsw
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/686398/

For those living near a waterway with platypus they will know they are doing their bit to look after a unique part of our Australian wildlife. >>
https://theconversation.com/how-smart-rainwater-tanks-can-help-keep-platypus-habitat-healthy-269816
#water #creeks #rivers #platypus #tanks #ImperviousSurfaces #RainwaterTanks #StormWater #wildlife #biodiversity

How ‘smart’ rainwater tanks can help keep platypus habitat healthy
#Environment #Australia #Platypus #RainwaterTanks #WaterManagement #UrbanPlanning #Biodiversity #EcoTech #WaterSecurity #Sustainability #UrbanEcology #SmartCities #Platypus #StormWater
https://the-14.com/how-smart-rainwater-tanks-can-help-keep-platypus-habitat-healthy/

Platypus in toxic brine
Platypus vanish from river where Charles Darwin pondered evolution

"If there's a polluted waterway and it doesn't have yabbies and mayflies and dragonflies … you've lost the food source of the platypus. There are no platypus in that section of the Cox's now because it is heavily polluted with salt and other metal pollutants."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-12/platypus-vanish-from-charles-darwin-evolution-river/105752248
#water #rivers #freshwater #ecosystems #pollution #biodiversity #platypus #monotremes #coal #FossilFuels #mining #energy #NSW #Sydney #values #extractivism #regulation

Platypus floor rugs

"The bush and its inhabitants were to be conquered and subjugated and the turning of wild and 'exotic' native animals into rugs was symbolic of that conquest. The fact that the rug was intended for use as a bed covering further emphasised the 'domestication' of this 'savage' land...Platypus skin rugs are commonly made from 70 or 80 skins and a single rug therefore represents considerable slaughter of the local population." >>
https://collection.powerhouse.com.au/object/343335

Auction: An early Australian Platypus rug of 56 pelts, the animals taken from the Namoi River at Manilla, Northern New South Wales, circa 1900. The Baldwin family represent a classic example of the white colonialists ... >>
https://auctions.leski.com.au/lot-details/index/catalog/48/lot/31803/An-early-Australian-Platypus-rug-of-56-pelts-the-animals-taken-from-the-Namoi-River-at-Manilla-Northern-New-South-Wales-circa-19
#platypus #textiles #wildlife #AnimalCommodification #biodiversity #FishingGear

A rainbow, black lagoon, and the creature therefrom.

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Remember the Urunga wetlands waste tailings rich in antimony, arsenic, lead and cyanide?

"For five years in the 1960s and 1970s, antimony and other heavy metals leached from an ore processing plant into the melaleuca wetlands. The wetlands used to open up into a moonscape of light grey sand with not a single bit of vegetation."
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https://www.crownland.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/2022-07/Urunga-Wetlands-fact-sheet.pdf
https://majorprojects.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/prweb/PRRestService/mp/01/getContent?AttachRef=SSD-5357%2120190227T035916.488%20GMT

Now they want to go for Wild Cattle Creek 'high-grade and high-tonnage' antimony-gold mining >>
https://www.listcorp.com/asx/tmg/trigg-minerals-limited/news/acquisition-of-globally-significant-antimony-project-3091939.html

A Clarence Catchment Alliance community meeting

is being hosted by the Bellingen Environment Centre,
with Blicks River Guardians and Lock the Gate Nambucca,
from 2pm on Friday May 31 at 16 Cudgery St, Dorrigo.
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https://clarencevalleynews.com.au/clarence-catchment-alliance-community-meeting/
#NSW #Dorrigo #Urunga #remediation #CoffsHarbour #mining #antimony #gold #extractivism #harm #WildCattleCreek #WCC #water #contamination #wetlands #rivers #waterways #freshwater #MarineWater #platypus #biodiversity #BellingenShire

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #160: Platypuses glow in UV light and we don't know why 🤔
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#platypus #monotremes #australia #wtf #butwhytho #glowinthedark #strangebuttrue #trivia #didyouknow #animals #bizarre #nature #biology #webcomic #comic #animals #funfacts #facts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

#Platypus and #rakali (water #rat)

30-JUL-2024
#Platypus and chicken reveal how chromosomes balance between the sexes

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1053015

#science #evolution #SexChromosomes #birds #SexDetermination #monotremes

From 07 Jun: Bizarre egg-laying mammals once ruled Australia—then lost their teeth - Enlarge / The echidna, an egg-laying mammal, doesn’t develop teeth.Yvonne Van der Horst ... https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/bizarre-egg-laying-mammals-once-ruled-australia-then-lost-their-teeth/ #biology #echidna #evolution #fossils #monotremes #paleontology #platypus #science

Another photo of the platypus. This one shows the layer of air between its fur/skin and the water, keeping it warm, dry and bouyant.

#Platypus #Tasmania #Monotremes #Mammals #Australia #Nature #Waterways

Platybutt!

#Platypus #Tasmania #Monotremes #Mammals #Australia #Nature #Waterways

Bizarre egg-laying mammals once ruled Australia—then lost their teeth - Enlarge / The echidna, an egg-laying mammal, doesn't develop teeth. (cr... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2029837 #paleontology #monotremes #evolution #platypus #science #biology #echidna #fossils

We have a little resident platypus living in our creek.😍 This week, we've seen it twice during the day and captured it on trailcam every night.

#Platypus #Tasmania #Monotremes #Mammals #Australia #Nature #Waterways

"Opalios splendens sits on a place in the evolutionary tree prior to the evolution of the common ancestor of the #monotremes we have today. Its overall anatomy is probably quite like the #platypus, but with features of the jaw and snout a bit more like an echidna – you might call it an ‘echidnapus’,” Professor Helgen said." (DOI not active yet)

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1045914

#Lego #Dinosaur #extinct #animals builds at #Brickresales #Brisbane
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#kronosaurus #platypterygius #muttaburrasaurus #australotitan #wintonotitan #thapunngaka #mythunga #ferrodraco #kunburrasaurus #minmi #leaellynasaura #procoptodon #diprotodon #kangaroo #echidna #platypus #goanna #magpie #rainbow #lorikeet #kookaburra #tasmaniandevil #koala #wombat #wedgetailedeagle