Platypuses hit hard by summer fires

Updated March 23 2021 - 11:38pm, first published December 2 2020 - 10:00am
Researchers estimate there are up to 317,500 platypuses left in the wild, meaning as many as 6350 platypuses may have been killed.
Researchers estimate there are up to 317,500 platypuses left in the wild, meaning as many as 6350 platypuses may have been killed.

The first landscape-scale study of the impact of bushfires on platypuses estimates a 14 per cent to 18 per cent decline in populations in fire affected areas in the nine months after last summer's devastating fires.

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