CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Australia is the country, building the world’s first platypus sanctuary.

Detailed explanation-2: -Conservationists in Australia however have come up with a solution - the world’s first ever sanctuary for platypuses. The sanctuary will aim to breed and look after the mammals. By 2022 it could house up to 65 platypuses. The sanctuary would be made up of burrows and ponds, much like their habitat in the wild.

Detailed explanation-3: -Q. Which country is building the world’s first Platypus Sanctuary? Notes: The New South Wales State government and the Taronga Conservation Society of Australia announced that they are building the world’s first Platypus Sanctuary.

Detailed explanation-4: -The platypus is a duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, egg-laying aquatic creature native to Australia. If its appearance alone somehow fails to impress, the male of the species is also one of the world’s few venomous mammals!

Detailed explanation-5: -The conservation project aims to reintroduce platypuses to the Royal National Park as early as August 2022. “Platypuses are an integral part of eastern Australia’s freshwater environment and belong in the rivers of the park where they once occurred, ” says Dr Tahneal Hawke, a scientist on the UNSW team.