Platypuses hit hard by summer fires. Scenic Rim had thousands of hectares burnt out

Updated March 23 2021 - 11:39pm, first published December 1 2020 - 11:00am

The first landscape-scale study of the impact of bushfires on platypuses estimates a 14 per cent to 18 per cent decline in populations in fire affected areas in the nine months after last summer's devastating fires.

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