Australia plans to build world’s first platypus sanctuary to promote breeding and rehabilitation
- The Australian conservationists have unveiled their plan to build the world’s first refuge for the platypus, a duck-billed mammal, that are facing extinction due to climate change.
- The new facility will promote breeding and rehabilitation of these iconic creatures, which are native to Australia.
- The Taronga Conservation Society Australia and the New South Wales State government plans to build the specialist facility by 2022, at a zoo 391-km from Sydney.
- The facility would contain mostly ponds and burrows for the semiaquatic creatures, and could house up to 65 platypuses.