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Working together to protect waterways

Nick Layne, project manager for NCCMA's Healthy Coliban Catchment, and landholder Kerry Connoley take part in the UCLN's Citizen Scientist Field Day to collect platypus DNA from critical refuge areas along the Coliban and Campaspe Rivers. They are seen here collecting samples at Turpins Falls. Photo: Sandy Scheltema

Nick Layne, project manager for NCCMA's Healthy Coliban Catchment, and landholder Kerry Connoley take part in the UCLN's Citizen Scientist Field Day to collect platypus DNA from critical refuge areas along the Coliban and Campaspe Rivers. They are seen here collecting samples at Turpins Falls. Photo: Sandy Scheltema

Working together to protect waterways

On a dry hot summer day last Wednesday, citizen scientists, government agencies, landcare and a platypus ecologist worked together collecting […]


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