Animals celebrate Word Wetlands Day

World Wetlands Day was celebrated across the country on Saturday, February 2. 

The animal trio visited the Southern Highlands with Wingecarribee Shire councillor Gordon Markwart, who is a friend of theirs.

Cranky said they went to Berrima because the Goulburn Wetlands are quite dry.

“No one knows better than Platypus how Australians rely so much on wetlands, the connecting creeks and underground aquifers,” Cranky said.

Platypus said – water is life.

“We have seen decades of watercourse diversions and unsustainable water extractions resulting in the degradation of once healthy and functioning ecological processes,” Platypus said. 

“We are seeing the effects of drying droughts and extremes of weather.”