Love your river. Love where you live.

As our cities grow and change, we believe we must bring biodiversity with us. Urban rivers, creeks, and green spaces aren’t just home to the incredible platypus — they’re vital to all of us. They support mental health, ecological balance, and community connection. But too often, they’re overlooked, polluted, or lost to development.

Friends of the Platypus is a creative conservation group working to change that — by helping people fall in love with their local landscapes and feel empowered to protect them. From hands-on restoration to public art, playful engagement tools to story-rich mapping, we’re here to make environmental action more visible, more joyful, and more connected. Because when we care for place, we care for each other — and for the future we share.