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Maarten De Brauwer, Senior Research Scientist in Marine and Estuarine Ecology, Southern Cross University

From surprise platypus to wandering cane toads, here’s what we found hiding in NSW estuaries

Maarten De Brauwer

Rivers up and down the north coast of New South Wales have been hammered again, just three years after devastating floods hit the Northern Rivers and Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley.

The events of 2022 sparked our latest research into the estuaries of NSW. These special places, where the rivers meet the sea, are teeming with life. Now – for the first time – we can reveal what lives where, in maps based on tell-tale traces of DNA.

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