Platypus habitat has shrunk by at least 22% in the last 30 years. 💔 🚧 Tree-clearing is decreasing food supply and water quality 💨 Pollution is creating unhealthy waterways needed for survival 🎣 Platypus are drowning in illegal freshwater traps designed for yabbies and fish. Your support can mean the difference between survival and extinction for this Aussie icon. Please help today. 🙏 | WWF-Australia

A baby platypus, commonly called a puggle, begins life by hatching blind and hairless from a small leathery egg. Instead of nursing through nipples, it feeds on milk that seeps from the mother’s skin pores, an unusual trait among mammals. The young remain inside the burrow for protection while they continue to develop. Platypuses are one of the world’s few egg-laying mammals and inhabit freshwater systems across eastern Australia and Tasmania. Although they are not officially classified as endan