Government Ensures a Good News Week for the Platypus
23 September 2021 Wildlife Queensland’s PlatypusWatch Program goes from strength to strength with the collaboration and assistance of government at federal, state and local levels. Wildlife Queensland is proud to announce that the PlatypusWatch program...
Citizen scientists track platypuses in Queensland’s Upper Dawson region
25 July 2021 Wildlife Queensland’s PlatypusWatch Network and Upper Dawson Branch ran two June workshops in the Banana Shire to teach locals about the iconic platypus and how to monitor its numbers using eDNA technology. The Maudsley family, from Mitchell,...
Meet Pollyanna the Platypus
Pollyanna the platypus is a part of important population research being conducted by Tamielle Brunt, PhD Candidate from the University of Queensland and PlatypusWatch ecologist for Wildlife Queensland. This research aims to determine how platypus populations are...
Call for citizen scientists: PlatypusWatch in the Dawson River
Wildlife Queensland’s Upper Dawson Branch and the PlatypusWatch Network are finalising plans to undertake an important platypus project in the Upper Dawson River during May 2021. The ‘PlatypusWatch and eDNA in the Dawson River’ project, proudly supported by the...
Saving Species One Record at a Time: The Importance of Ongoing Monitoring
Author: Tamielle Brunt Wildlife Queensland’s PlatypusWatch Network has been monitoring local Queensland platypus populations since 2005. The Network was set up to engage the community about platypus conservation and encourage reporting of local observations....