To keep our precious native animals, we need to know where they are. We can focus our efforts on saving their habitats and maybe even restoring degraded ones.

ACT government's Natural Resource Management works with energetic people in the commuity who love platypus. We have the beautiful rakali, more an otter than the unworthy label 'water rat' suggests. And lurking in the mud are the common yabby, the less glamorous but tireless workers in the ecosystem.

In this interview Daniel Harris-Pascal shows his affection for those things that live in our waterways, and why the citizen science projects are so important. Daniel is Citizen Science Facilitator with ACT Natural Resource Management.

There's plenty going on if you want to see for yourself: 

Platypus Month - Waterwatch

Upper Murrumbidgee Waterwatch