Ep 3: w/ Geoff Williams | Australian Platypus Conservancy | Talking platypus and reintroducing to urban South Australia

08/24/23 • 46 min

On this episode we’ll be talking everything about platypuses and the in-and-outs of reintroducing them to metropolitan Adelaide with world-renowned platypus expert Geoff Williams from the Australian Platypus Conservancy.
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08/24/23 • 46 min

Green Adelaide Podcast - Ep 3: w/ Geoff Williams | Australian Platypus Conservancy | Talking platypus and reintroducing to urban South Australia

Transcript

Geoff Williams:

I was working at the zoos for example, I had to become a general manager as well as a biologist. That brought in a lot of useful skills in terms of knowing how to manage budgets and how to get sponsors and how to work with the media and all those sorts of things. That's just as important in a way as actually, your environmental skills. So, I would say to people, "Never turn down an opportunity to take on something that's a bit out of the mainstream and certainly never dis

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