Platypuses found dead on NSW mid north coast prompt calls for more action on illegal yabby traps

Illegal fishing, pollution, habitat destruction and increasing impacts of climate change threaten wild platypus numbers. (Supplied: Australian Platypus Conservancy)

A recent discovery of four dead platypuses and a native water rat, or rakali, in a single "opera house" style yabby trap in Dorrigo on the NSW Mid North Coast has prompted calls for more action to stamp out the use of the deadly devices.