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Platypus to return to the Royal National Park

06 September 2021

There are many things best left in the 70’s like flared pants, mirror balls and sideburns. But there is one thing we should not leave behind and that’s the iconic platypus in the Royal National Park. Absent from the region for over 50 years, today I announced a plan to bring them back to the Royal. Returning an iconic species back to one of the country’s oldest and most iconic Parks. A major collaboration between WWF-Australia UNSW NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and Taronga Zoo Sydney.

Platypus to return to the Royal National Park

PLATYPUS TO RETURN TO THE ROYAL NATIONAL PARK

Environment Minister Matt Kean has today announced that after being absent for over half a century, the iconic platypus is set to make its return to The Royal National Park just south of Sydney.

“We are returning one of Australia’s most iconic species to Australia’s first National Park,” Mr Kean said.

“The platypus is seen nowhere else on the planet and like so many of our other precious native species, its future is uncertain. Unfortunately, we have some of the worst extinctions rates anywhere in the world and we have to make sure the platypus never makes that list.”

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