mellowyellow
Well-known Member
The abrupt form of Victoria's Mount Sturgeon looms behind the new swamps.(Supplied: Michelle Forte, EyeDropper Designs)
"When you see the landscape the way we do, as ecologists, you see it through a different lens," he said. "It was a dry dust bowl effectively, but you could still see that it was a wetland, and it could be a wetland again."
"I drove out after a big flood to see how our two trial swamps were looking, I'd just taken a few steps off the road and saw a black thing moving up along the bank of a deep drain," Mr Bachmann said.
"I thought it might be a water rat, but then I got a look at the bill and I thought, 'Oh my goodness, it's a platypus!'" he said…….
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02...ntation-transformed-back-to-wetlands/13110128