The conservation status of the platypus has now been recognised as threatened .
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Scientists could find evidence of platypus in northern Victorian rivers by checking water samples for DNA, in a proposed project being developed for Victoria.
A not-for-profit company is hoping to recruit volunteers and raise money to fund the project designed to find out how prevalent the elusive mammal is in our streams.
There have been sporadic reports of the monotremes in the lower Goulburn, but they appear to be more common in the upper reaches.
The project will use the technology that has been useful in finding fragments of COVID-19 in wastewater in urban sewerage plants.
But Smith suffered a shoulder injury and missed selection for the second test. “Because the players were allowed to keep their jerseys only at the second Test, when the team photo was also taken, Tony missed out on both, ’ New Zealand Rugby League historian John Coffey said. The Kiwis test proved his last game of rugby league in New Zealand. He married in 1963 and went to farm at Waiau, where the local rugby club s case to have him reinstated was flatly refused by higher authorities. Back then, any player deemed to have been a rugby professional was automatically denied a rugby union return.