Get involved
The iconic Platypus is in trouble and needs your help.
Contact research.ari@deeca.vic.gov.au for general enquiries regarding Platy Patch.
If you live near a Platy Patch site, contact the relevant partner organisation below to find out what’s happening and get involved.
- ARI DEECA - Helping Platypus recover
- Melbourne Water
- Corangamite Catchment Management Authority
- East Gippsland Catchment Management Authority
- Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority
- Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Authority
- North Central Catchment Management Authority
- North East Catchment Management Authority
- Wimmera Catchment Management Authority
- West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority
If you own a property near Monbulk Creek in Upwey, Tecoma, Belgrave, Belgrave Heights, Belgrave South, Selby, Sherbrooke and Kallista and would like to learn more about Tanks for Platypus or discuss if your property is suitable, contact Yarra Council.
to One Tree Planted, a non-profit organisation focused on global reforestation. This organisation is contributing funds for revegetation efforts in Platy Patch.
To help clean up and rehabilitate your local waterway, get in contact with your local CMA, community group or Local Government.
If you are a landholder living along, or near a waterway, seek advice on how to rehabilitate and protect this environment. Actions could include weed control, fencing and revegetation with native plants.
so we can continue to build a better picture of their distribution. In Victoria, you can contribute through the Victorian Biodiversity Atlas.
Support the ‘Seize it, Snip it, Bin it’ campaign to reduce the occurrence of loopy litter in our waterways.
This campaign encourages people to collect and correctly dispose of litter they encounter. It is promoted in September during Platypus Month, although its message is relevant all year round.
The campaign is a collaboration between Melbourne Water, WaterWatch, River Detectives, Zoos Victoria, Werribee River Association, Australian Platypus Conservancy, Bacchus Marsh Platypus Alliance, North Central Catchment Management Authority and Corangamite Catchment Management Authority.