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Education campaign to protect the platypus wins award
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HE Platypus Pals project, a citizen science initiative to confirm the presence of platypus in the Georges River, has been recognised at the Local
Government NSW Excellence in the Environment Awards, winning the Communication Education and Empowerment Award. The Council-run project drew on the
support of passionate locals and fishers to collect water samples that were analysed using a new scientific method called environmental DNA (eDNA) which
confirmed a small population of platypus living in the Georges and Nepean Rivers and a population of endangered Macquarie perch with the Georges River. More: Page 3.