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#platypus

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NSW.Biodiversity

Illegal and unchecked nets entangle and drown platypuses

"Platypus are listed as vulnerable to extinction in Victoria, with habitat destruction and degradation, and poor water quality leading to a significant drop in numbers and distribution since the early 1990s."

“Platypus, turtles and rakali are at risk of being trapped in abandoned or illegal nets and we are hoping that someone will come forward with information about these nets.".
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au.news.yahoo.com/grim-discove
#Platypus #ecocide #governance #wildlife #crime

Yahoo News · Grim discovery in abandoned fishing trap near popular Aussie trackBy Michael Dahlstrom
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NSW.Biodiversity

RNP Platypus habitat: Turkeys Nest Dam full of coal sludge
Coal miner Peabody breached licence conditions, to pay $500,000 for Royal National Park pollution

"The Land and Environment Court found Metropolitan Mine on two occasions failed to prevent water contaminated with coal waste from flowing into a tributary of the Hacking River running through the Royal National Park, south of Sydney."
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abc.net.au/news/2025-03-24/coa
#water #pollution #RNP #Sydney #platypus #rivers #HackingRiver #Coal #Fossilfuels

ABC News · Coal miner Peabody breached licence conditions, to pay $500,000 for Royal National Park pollutionBy Nick McLaren
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NSW.Biodiversity

Platypus home:
""Historic infrastructure" leaked thousands of litres of oil into a popular Tasmanian lake this month."

"Up to 30 kilometres of the shoreline of the lake, home to platypus and visited by myriad other native animals, has been affected by the spill.Tasmania has a long history of oil and fuel spills causing environmental distress in the island's waterways."
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abc.net.au/news/2025-01-25/lak
#pollution #spill #fossilfuel #water #wildlife #platypus #Tasmania #biodiversity

ABC News · Popular Tasmanian lake off-limits after oil spill but is someone to blame?By Sandy Powell
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michael

8-Jan-2025

A nearly gapless #genome sequence of the #echidna, an egg-laying mammal with multiple #sexChromosomes, helps researchers to track genomic reorganization events that gave rise to a highly unusual #sexDetermination system.

related to the system of the #platypus which was the cover story in my book "Der Kuss des Schnabeltiers" / "The birds, the bees, and the platypuses." 15 years later I can't remember how that worked but I loved the story.

eurekalert.org/news-releases/1 #science

EurekAlert!Unraveling the events leading to multiple sex chromosomes using an echidna genome sequenceThe short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)  is one of Australia’s most iconic animals. Belonging to a unique group of mammals called “monotremes” (with the platypus as the other prominent member), echidnas may at first glance be mistaken for a weird-looking hedgehog, but they are in fact egg-laying mammals.  An international team of authors, led by Guojie Zhang and Qi Zhou at Centre for Evolutionary & Organismal Biology at Zhejiang University, Yang Zhou from BGI-research and Frank Grutzner from Adelaide University now present an almost gapless genome sequence of the short-beaked echidna. This work is part of the international Vertebrate Genome Project, and hosted in the VGP Genome Ark Database. The authors used the new data to better understand the evolutionary origin of the highly complex configuration of multiple sex chromosomes which is characteristic for monotremes. The work is published in the open science journal GigaScience.
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NSW.Biodiversity

Recycling facility used as alleged illegal dump for thousands of tonnes of toxic waste on Fraser Coast

"There are multiple threatened species of turtles and fish living in that part of the Mary River. Toxic waste could be transported down the river channel into the estuary in the coastal zone."
#RamsarConvention #rivers #MaryRiver #turtles #lungfish #platypus #dumping #waste #toxins #ThreatenedSpecies #BushProperties #FraserCoast #WasteManagement

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